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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 …

Rallying last Saturday (Pic: Clarks Strike Supporters on Facebook) Around 400 people joined a march through Street in Somerset last Saturday in support of the striking Clarks shoe warehouse workers. It was the biggest demo the village has ever seen. Delegations of local trade unionists joined strikers and their families. …

Stagecoach workers in South Wales protest and strike—and the first Father Christmas of the year? (Pic: Unite Wales) Bus drivers working for Stagecoach in South Wales renewed their strike over pay on Monday. Workers in the Unite union hit the Cwmbran, Blackwood and Brynmawr depots The action began on Sunday …

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 …

Unite national officer Des Quinn announces the suspension of strikes at GKN (Pic: Unite West Midlands on Twitter) Strikes at the GKN Automotive factory in Birmingham have been suspended. The workers were due to begin strikes on Monday against plans of parent company Melrose GKN to close the factory. Following …

Tower Hamlets council workers on strike last year (Pic: Guy Smallman) How many workers went on strike in 2020? One good answer might be “not enough”. But the official answer is “we will never know”. At the start of the pandemic the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced it was …