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R oyal Mail workers are set to stage two 48-hour strikes around Black Friday and Cyber Monday in a dispute over pay. The “historic” walkout was announced for November 25 and November 28 by the CWU union in a dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. However, the union withdrew strikes …

Planned strikes by staff at Royal Mail over the next two weeks have been abandoned following a challenge by the firm. The Communication Workers Union, which represents much of Royal Mail’s staff, said on Monday that it had chosen to withdraw industrial action notices over the next two weeks on …

19 October 2022, 19:25 Dave Ward of the CWU. Picture: Getty Royal Mail, BT and Openreach workers are all set to walk out tomorrow (Thursday) in one of the biggest strikes of the year. Union members at the three companies are all locked in separate, longstanding disputes with their employers …

An unprecedented 98 percent of teachers in the National Education Union (NEU) voted yes to a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. A huge majority (86 percent) indicated they would be prepared to strike. Teachers have been offered a pay deal of just 5 percent, which will not be funded nationally …

Royal Mail announced today that it will axe 10,000 full time jobs—over 6 percent of its 150,000-strong workforce across the UK. The jobs massacre was unveiled by parent group International Services Distribution and will be realised in two tranches, with 5,000 redundancies by March and a total of 10,000 by …

Today, 115,000 Royal Mail workers took their sixth day of national strike action and the first of 19 more one-day strikes scheduled in the run up to Christmas. Placards on display on a picket line during the Royal Mail strike, October 13, 2022 The Royal Mail dispute is by far …

Employees at Royal Mail will hold 19 days of strike action over both pay and terms and conditions during the peak build-up to Christmas time. Source link

150,000 Royal Mail workers began a 48-hour strike on Thursday bringing postal services across the UK to a halt. But Communication Workers Union (CWU) officials cancelled Friday’s strike “out of respect for the Queen”, exposing their deference to a monarchy that is the embodiment of class oppression and hereditary privilege. …

R oyal Mail workers are to stage a further 48-hour strike from September 30 in their dispute over pay and conditions, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced. Tomorrow 115,000 of CWU members will walk out in on 8 September in protest against an “imposed” 2% pay rise. Picket lines will …

Up to 170,000 telecom and postal workers will take six days of selective strike action across Britain from Friday. The largest contingent in the national strike action are 115,000 post workers at Royal Mail who strike across 1,500 workplaces August 26/31 and September 8/9. This is the first national strike …