[ad_1] Royal Mail is again being investigated by the communications regulator over its missed delivery targets. Ofcom announced the inquiry after Royal Mail said on Monday it did not meet its 2022 to 2023 quality of service targets. The targets require Royal Mail to deliver 93% of first-class mail within one working day of collection;…
[ad_1] Capita, the outsourcing specialist and government contractor, has revealed that customer, supplier or colleague data may have been accessed during a cyber attack in March. The company, which announced earlier this month that it had been targeted, said its investigations had identified that the attack on its systems first took place on or around…
[ad_1] Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have reached an agreement in principle following a long-running dispute over pay and employment terms. In a joint statement with Royal Mail, CWU confirmed the agreement will now be considered by the executive of the union before it goes before the membership. The details of the…
[ad_1] Mountains of packages were piled up in cages outside Warrington delivery office as postal workers continue to strike for better pay. Images and videos shared with The Mirror by the Communication Workers Union this week showed cages full of undelivered post both outside and inside mail centres this week, causing “chaos”. But Royal Mail…
[ad_1] A striking Royal Mail worker has voiced fears up to 25,000 staff could be sacked and new working conditions imposed on those left after the core Christmas season has finished. The man, who usually delivers letters and parcels in the London area and is being identified as ‘Derek’ because he wished to remain anonymous,…
[ad_1] Rail passengers have been urged to only travel if “absolutely necessary” today as members of four trade unions stage a 24-hour walkout. The latest strike by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), Aslef, Unite and the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) is expected to cause the worst rail disruption of the…
[ad_1] Royal Mail workers are to stage a further 48-hour strike starting at the end of this month in a dispute over pay and conditions. Some 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) were already preparing to walk out on Thursday and Friday this week. But they will now also strike for 48 hours…
[ad_1] BT call centre staff “can’t afford to buy themselves or their children food” while the company pays its CEO millions of pounds. More than 40,000 of the telecom giant’s workers, mostly engineers and call centre staff represented by the Communication Workers Union (CWU), are going on strike on July 29 and August 1 as…
[ad_1] Some workers at Royal Mail have been forced to turn to foodbanks to make ends meet, according to a top Cheshire union boss. The claim comes days after Communication Workers Union (CWU) members voted 97.6 per cent in favour of taking industrial action over a below-inflation pay rise offer. “We have postmen and postwomen…
[ad_1] Royal Mail workers could be asked to check up on vulnerable residents during rounds, despite some postal staff relying on foodbanks and struggling to make ends meet themselves. The scheme will be trialled in Northumberland, with Royal Mail’s chief executive telling The Times their “great, trusted teams see things that others don’t” because they…