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Freshly announced Royal Mail strikes will disrupt some massive online shopping days in the lead-up to Christmas 2022, as pay negotiations between the firm and union officials blow up Video Loading Video Unavailable The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Royal Mail: Thousands of postal workers strike over pay Royal …

Posties had already voted for four days of strike action and now more days are planned in a dispute over terms and conditions Video Loading Video Unavailable The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Royal Mail: Communications Workers Union announces strike action Royal Mail workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour …

Disruption to postal deliveries is to be expected after Royal Mail workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of strikes in a dispute over pay and conditions. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) backed strikes by 98.7% on a turnout of more than 72%. It was the second ballot of Royal …

Royal Mail workers in Dumfries and Galloway are set to stage four days of strikes as they battle for better pay. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is demanding a “dignified, proper pay rise” for staff following mail bosses imposing a two per cent rise that the union say was without …

More than 100,000 Royal Mail staff members will strike over four days in a call for a “dignified, proper pay rise.” The industrial action is set to take place on August 26 and 31 as well as September 8 and 9. It comes after a 77 percent ballot turnout from …

The Conservative government, immediately following the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the triggering of a leadership contest, last week announced massive de facto pay cuts for more than two million public sector workers. Clinical staff care for a patient with coronavirus in the intensive care unit at the …

Postal services in Scotland are likely to be hampered in the near future after Royal Mail workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of strikes in a dispute over pay. A ballot of members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) showed huge support for industrial action in protest at a 2% pay …

It has been announced Royal Mail managers have voted to strike in a dispute over jobs. Members of Unite backed walkouts by 86% and by 89% in Northern Ireland. The union said Royal Mail plans to cut 542 frontline delivery managers’ jobs alongside a redeployment programme to bring in worsening …

Royal Mail workers will be sent ballot papers on Tuesday Royal Mail workers could be the next to go on strike as they prepare to vote in the coming weeks on proposed industrial action. Around 115,000 Communication Workers Union (CWU) members will be voting on the proposal after the union …

On Monday afternoon, Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) General Secretary Mick Lynch confirmed that national rail strikes involving 50,000 workers would go ahead this Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. He complained that the union had been given “no choice” because the Conservative government had “actively prevented a settlement” from being …