[ad_1] Planned strikes by staff at Royal Mail over the next two weeks have been abandoned following a challenge by the firm. The Communication Workers Union, which represents much of Royal Mail’s staff, said on Monday that it had chosen to withdraw industrial action notices over the next two weeks on the back of a…
[ad_1] 19 October 2022, 19:25 Dave Ward of the CWU. Picture: Getty Royal Mail, BT and Openreach workers are all set to walk out tomorrow (Thursday) in one of the biggest strikes of the year. Union members at the three companies are all locked in separate, longstanding disputes with their employers over pay and working…
[ad_1] An unprecedented 98 percent of teachers in the National Education Union (NEU) voted yes to a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. A huge majority (86 percent) indicated they would be prepared to strike. Teachers have been offered a pay deal of just 5 percent, which will not be funded nationally and must come from…
[ad_1] Royal Mail announced today that it will axe 10,000 full time jobs—over 6 percent of its 150,000-strong workforce across the UK. The jobs massacre was unveiled by parent group International Services Distribution and will be realised in two tranches, with 5,000 redundancies by March and a total of 10,000 by August 2023. The company’s…
[ad_1] Today, 115,000 Royal Mail workers took their sixth day of national strike action and the first of 19 more one-day strikes scheduled in the run up to Christmas. Placards on display on a picket line during the Royal Mail strike, October 13, 2022 The Royal Mail dispute is by far the largest in a…
[ad_1] Employees at Royal Mail will hold 19 days of strike action over both pay and terms and conditions during the peak build-up to Christmas time. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] 150,000 Royal Mail workers began a 48-hour strike on Thursday bringing postal services across the UK to a halt. But Communication Workers Union (CWU) officials cancelled Friday’s strike “out of respect for the Queen”, exposing their deference to a monarchy that is the embodiment of class oppression and hereditary privilege. Pickets at Aylesbury Delivery…
[ad_1] R oyal Mail workers are to stage a further 48-hour strike from September 30 in their dispute over pay and conditions, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced. Tomorrow 115,000 of CWU members will walk out in on 8 September in protest against an “imposed” 2% pay rise. Picket lines will be mounted outside delivery…
[ad_1] Up to 170,000 telecom and postal workers will take six days of selective strike action across Britain from Friday. The largest contingent in the national strike action are 115,000 post workers at Royal Mail who strike across 1,500 workplaces August 26/31 and September 8/9. This is the first national strike at Royal Mail since…
[ad_1] A postal worker union had the best response after Royal Mail stuck the boot in over their strikes. More than 115,000 UK postal workers will go on strike for four days later this month and early in September. And members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) have voted for further industrial action over working…