Thousands of households across Britain will not receive their post until after six o’clock in the evening under a major shake-up proposed by Royal Mail. The postal service wants to push back deliveries until later in the day as part of plans to deliver parcels more quickly. With many online …
Read More »Royal Mail losing £1m a day as it threatens union with split
Royal Mail has warned union bosses preparing to strike that the business could be split in two as its British arm loses £1m a day. The former FTSE 100 company warned the Communication Workers Union (CWU), whose 115,000 members yesterday voted in favour of strike action, that its UK and …
Read More »Royal Mail union demands £28.50 a week for staff to push one button
Growing up in the north-east market town of Darlington, Simon Thompson has fond memories of attending the nearby Durham Miners’ Gala in the 1970s and 1980s. For many working class families, the annual trade union jamboree was – and remains – a highlight of the social calendar. “My grandfather was …
Read More »40,000 BT workers in UK vote to strike, but Communication Workers Union pledges no “knee jerk reaction”
Thousands of BT telecoms and call centre staff could strike within weeks. On June 15, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) balloted workers in three categories—BT, Openreach and EE subsidiaries—across the BT group. If the strike goes ahead it will be the first national stoppage of BT workers in 35 years. …
Read More »Union ballots 115,000 Royal Mail staff over ‘biggest strike’ of the summer
It demanded that the company negotiates to secure a “straight, no-strings pay increase” for employees. A spokesman for the CWU said: “Britain’s postal workers are being forced into accepting a massive pay cut by the same people they have generated incredible profits for. “Our members are going to food banks …
Read More »Royal Mail strikes landmark union deal
During an exclusive interview with the Telegraph in October, Mr Williams said: “We have challenges, but we have a fantastic opportunity here too in the growing customer demand for parcels. If we can adapt our business quickly enough, we will be well positioned to meet our customers’ demands. “If we …
Read More »UK postal workers in plea for limit to non-essential deliveries | Business
Postal workers have called on Royal Mail and e-commerce sites to limit the amount of non-essential items they are being asked to deliver at a time when they are risking their health by turning up to work. Despite the UK government’s closure of non-essential retail outlets, e-commerce companies can continue …
Read More »Labour leadership hopefuls court votes of the ‘big five’ unions | Politics
Labour leadership hopefuls and their supporters are wooing union executive members as they seek to make the final ballot which will decide who will lead the party. Representatives of the five remaining candidates – Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy, Sir Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry and Jess Phillips – have approached general …
Read More »Trade unions braced for ‘Winter of Discontent’ headlines
ANY pre-election threat of industrial action presents an immediate target for Conservative politicians and their media allies. Add to the mix a pledge by the Labour Party to row back on ever-tightening legal restrictions on trade union activity, and within an instant Conservative-supporting newspapers are warning of an imminent repeat …
Read More »JD Wetherspoon pubs boss brews up a storm over governance | Business
Tim Martin at JD Wetherspoon writes some entertaining chairman’s rants and, if you skip the sermons on Brexit, he is reliably thought-provoking. Here’s the latest view from behind the pumps: corporate governance in the UK is “up the spout” and a tick-box culture is sowing seeds of destruction. As a …
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