Royal Mail workers have strike action planned across the UK for Wednesday August 31. Further industrial action is expected to take place on Thursday September 8 and Friday September 9. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has called for its Royal Mail members to strike for increased pay that “addresses the …
Read More »Royal Mail strike: Are post offices open and how post will be affected
Royal Mail staff across the country will strike today (Wednesday) in a dispute over pay. It is the latest in a series of walk-outs which were confirmed by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) earlier this month. Workers are demanding a “dignified, proper pay rise” after being offered a 2% pay …
Read More »Royal Mail is in desperate trouble – but the turnaround should be British-led
First, we need to rip up the rules that were put in place when it was privatised that protect the unions. The Royal Mail is ridiculously over-manned, and riddled with restrictive practices. Of course, we all sympathise with the posties who want a pay rise that matches inflation, and the …
Read More »Royal Mail workers in Paisley picket Underwood Road depot for “dignified, proper pay rise”
Royal Mail workers in Paisley joined the ranks of striking workers this summer as they held the first of three days of industrial action yesterday. A picket line, organised by the Communication Workers Union (CWU), was in place outside the Underwood Road Royal Mail depot from 5.30am with the first …
Read More »How much do postal workers earn and why are they striking?
R oyal Mail workers have begun a four-day strike over a pay dispute with the company, with strike days set for August and September. On Friday, some 115,000 are expected to stage a walkout, which will last throughout the weekend, with Royal Mail warning that letters will not be delivered, …
Read More »Cambridgeshire postal workers join 115,000 Royal Mail staff on strike over pay
Cambridgeshire postal workers are among around 115,000 Royal Mail staff taking part in a four-day strike beginning today (August 26). Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) say that they are “striking for a pay rise that fully addresses the current cost of living”. 97.6 per cent of CWU members …
Read More »Striking Royal Mail workers ‘using foodbanks to feed families’
Royal Mail workers across Merseyside took to picket lines today, on their first day of strike action. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) who work for Royal Mail are striking over four days in total, including today, because of a dispute over pay. Workers will also strike on August …
Read More »Royal Mail strike: The postal workers taking a stand over ‘totally inadequate’ pay
From Friday 115,000 Royal Mail workers are going on strike in what has been called the “biggest strike of summer so far”. Workers gathered at the Penarth Road sorting office in Cardiff to make their case. On the picket line, Communication Workers Union branch chair and postal executive member Katrina …
Read More »Postal workers across Cornwall take part in Royal Mail strike action
Postal workers have been pictured at picket lines in Cornwall today (August 26) as part of an action that includes thousands of other workers across the country who are in a dispute over pay and working conditions. In Truro, some members taking part in the industrial action had been at …
Read More »Royal Mail postal workers strike in Lincoln over pay dispute
Postal workers are striking at the Lincoln Royal Mail depot over pay on the morning of Friday, August 26. Images show around 50 Royal Mail workers at the picket holding signs reading ‘I’m voting yes.’ More than 100,000 postal workers have walked out across the country. The Communication Workers Union …
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