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Royal Mail and Post Office workers took national strike action today, covering a combined workforce of up to 120,000. There were large turn outs on picket lines at delivery offices, mail centres and Parcelforce depots across the UK. Striking Royal Mail workers in Bournemouth, August 26, 2022 [Photo: WSWS] The …

ROYAL Mail workers in Belfast were attacked by dogs 50 times last year – the second-highest figure in the UK. Only Sheffield, with 51 reported attacks on postal workers, fared worse. Postmen and postwomen across the UK suffered 1,673 dog attacks between 2021 and 2022, new figures from the postal …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1153/33227 From The Socialist newspaper, 27 October 2021 Photo: Paul Mattsson   (Click to enlarge) Former Royal Mail worker Despite the promise of benefiting delivery workers’ conditions, the rollout of the ‘Pathway to Change Agreement’ between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) is proving to …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1152/33208 From The Socialist newspaper, 20 October 2021 Llanelli picket line. Photo: Swansea Trades Council   (Click to enlarge) Gareth Bromhall, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party Postal deliveries in Llanelli ground to a halt on 13 October when workers at Llanelli Delivery Office walked out to …

  USPS centralizes leadership as step towards privatization and possible election fraud By Shuvu Batta 11 August 2020 The United States Postal Service(USPS), under the leadership of Postmaster General, former logistics firm CEO and major Trump donor Louis DeJoy, announced an unprecedented restructuring of the organization’s top management. USPS mail …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1077/30422 From The Socialist newspaper, 11 March 2020 Royal Mail workers in the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) supporting a ‘yes’ vote in a reballot for strike action, Leicester Meridian, photo Steve Score   (Click to enlarge) Socialist Party members in CWU Almost 110,000 postal workers are currently …

  Zimbabwe hospital doctors out for 15 weeks; German Amazon workers strike at three centres; health workers stoppage in Northern Ireland Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa 20 December 2019 Europe Strike at three German Amazon centres Around 1,200 Amazon workers at Bad Hersfeld, Koblenz and Leipzig Amazon sites …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1063/29827 From The Socialist newspaper, 6 November 2019 Gary Clark, photo Mary Finch   (Click to enlarge) Socialist Party Scotland member Gary Clark, who is the branch secretary of the Scotland Number Two CWU branch spoke at the main rally at Socialism 2019. Below are extracts from …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1060/29732 From The Socialist newspaper, 16 October 2019 There was a deafening roar of approval at the special meeting convened by the Communications Workers Union (CWU) when it was announced that postal workers in Royal Mail had voted yes to strike action by a massive 97.1%. …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1058/29660 From The Socialist newspaper, 2 October 2019 Renationalise the industry under democratic workers’ control photo A Tice   (Click to enlarge) Robert McArdle, Coventry Communications Workers Union (CWU) member A showdown between Royal Mail bosses and 120,000 workers is taking place as jobs and conditions come …