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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 …

A Royal Mail worker who had almost £4,000 of sick pay illegally docked by a manager she accused of bullying has won the cash back after taking her bosses to a tribunal. Pamela Gray was signed off work with anxiety and stress after learning that her new boss at Bo’ness …

One year ago, an early manifestation of opposition by the working class to the homicidal response of the ruling class to the COVID-19 pandemic began with a series of wildcat strikes in Italy. Over the next week, strikes spread to other European countries and to North and South America. At …

Postal workers could be utilised to check on the wellbeing of the elderly and to deliver prescriptions. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has reportedly proposed the idea to the loss-making Royal Mail to build on its advantage of “the fact we own trust on the doorstep”. Royal Mail’s 120,000 frontline …

(Reuters) – Britain’s Royal Mail (RMG.L) has proposed a three-year pay deal to the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and wants to have detailed talks with its largest union, the company said on Twitter on Friday. FILE PHOTO: A Royal Mail postal worker stands in the yard of a sorting office …

(Reuters) – Royal Mail (RMG.L) put forward a proposal with a three-year pay deal to Communication Workers Union (CWU) on Friday, saying in its message delivered on Twitter that it wanted to have detailed talks with its largest union. FILE PHOTO: Royal Mail vans parked in the Leytonstone post office …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1068/30088 From The Socialist newspaper, 8 January 2020 RMT and NSSN protest outside parliament against the Tory government’s threat to the right to strike. 19.12.19, photo JB   (Click to enlarge) Rob Williams, Socialist Party industrial organiser The mask has slipped – almost the first act of …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1062/29786 From The Socialist newspaper, 30 October 2019 photo Rob Williams   (Click to enlarge) Rob Williams, National Shop Stewards Network, chair Independent union United Voices of the World (UVW) has launched an ‘autumn of discontent’ with strikes by outsourced, low-paid, mainly migrant workers. There are strikes …