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 …
Read More »Royal Mail took aim at striking posties on Twitter and the union’s comeback was 1st class
Twitter Poke Staff. Updated August 18th, 2022 You’ll probably already know that UK postal workers will go on strike for four days later this month and early in September. Now members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) have voted for further industrial action over working conditions. We mention this because …
Read More »Britain’s strike wave escalates as millions push for action
Britain is experiencing a wave of strikes on a scale unseen for decades. More than 40,000 rail workers represented by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) will continue national rail strikes on Thursday and Saturday. Around 10,000 RMT members on the London Underground …
Read More »More than 115,000 Royal Mail staff will strike – when will it happen?
R oyal Mail workers are set to strike over six days in August and September in a dispute over pay, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) recently announced. The union said it would be the biggest strike of the summer so far, with more than 115,000 workers set to walk out. …
Read More »When will postal workers go on strike? More than 100,00 Royal Mail staff to walk out
R oyal Mail workers are set to strike over four days in August and September in a dispute over pay. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced the strike on Twitter on Tuesday. The union said it would be the biggest strike of the summer so far, with more than 100,000 …
Read More »BT workers speak from the picket lines in first UK-wide strike in 35 years
BT Group was hit Friday by a walkout of 40,000 call centre staff and engineers taking part in the first day of their 48-hour national strike action which will continue next Monday. This is the first company-wide strike action in 35 years. The members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) …
Read More »UK: Strike by 40,000 BT workers builds growing opposition to Tory-imposed austerity
The two-day strike at BT on July 29 and August 1 sees 40,000 telecoms workers join with rail workers and hundreds of thousands of others in a growing fightback against the corporations and the Conservative government’s refusal to agree a living wage. This is the first company wide strike since …
Read More »UK postal union sits on strike mandate at Royal Mail after 115,000 vote for action against 2 percent pay award
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is sitting on the largest strike mandate it has been handed for decades, refusing to name any dates for action against Royal Mail’s imposition of a 2 percent pay award this year. Around 115,000 postal workers at 1,500 workplaces returned a 97.6 percent vote for …
Read More »CWU mocks Royal Mail for saying they are ‘disappointed’ that strike is going ahead
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has expertly trolled Royal Mail after the company’s workers vote to take strike action. Yesterday, postal service workers at Royal Mail voted in a ballot to take strike action in a dispute over pay. The vote comes not long after rail workers with the RMT …
Read More »When are the Royal Mail strikes and why are they striking?
20 July 2022, 13:05 Royal Mail workers have voted in favour of a strike. Picture: Alamy When is the postal strike happening? Royal Mail workers threaten their biggest strike ever this summer which could cause huge postal disruption across the country. Royal Mail workers are in talks to do their …
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