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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 …

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 …

More than 40,000 workers at UK telecoms giant BT Group are set to strike on July 29 and August 1 against a below inflation pay award for this year. Following the first national rail strike in 25 years last month, the BT action will be the first company-wide strike since …

A Royal Mail Spokesperson said: “We are very pleased Unite/CMA members have called off planned strike action from Wednesday 20 to Friday 22 July. “There were no grounds for industrial action. The extended consultation on our recent restructure concluded earlier this year, and the restructuring is complete. We committed to …

Around 1,500 Post Office workers walked off the job on Monday, in the first 24-hour strike over pay at the state-owned company. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at Crown post offices were taking part in the action on Monday, after the company offered a 3% pay rise for …

R oyal Mail staff are set to go on strike later this month in a dispute over “further attacks on jobs and pay.” Unite, the managers’ trade union, says the industrial action will go ahead over Royal Mail’s plan to cut 700 jobs and cut pay by up to £7,000, …

PARCEL delivery chaos beckons, Unite has warned, after its members in Royal Mail voted to strike over more job cuts.  The union slammed the privatised company on Wednesday evening, saying it was “awash with cash” while trying to axe 542 front-line managerial positions on top of the 420 jobs already lost. About 2,400 managers …

June 29 (Reuters) – Britain faces a summer of disruption as workers across the economy struggling with the rising cost of living resort to strike action in disputes over pay and conditions. Below are some of the industries in which trade unions have either already announced strike action or are …

Post Office workers are to take national strike action May 3, in opposition to pay restraint imposed in line with the public sector policy dictated by the Johnson government. The one-day stoppage will close 114 Crown Post Offices (those run directly by the Post Office) around the country and there …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1162/33571 Home   |   The Socialist 12 January 2022   |   Join the Socialist Party Subscribe   |   Donate   |   Audio  |   PDF  |   ebook A Royal Mail depot, photo JB   (Click to enlarge) Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) members in the Royal Mail delivery office in Invergordon, north of …