Royal Mail
Workers at Royal Mail sites to strike next week
Maintenance staff at Royal Mail facilities to strike over attacks on working conditions.
Maintenance workers at Royal Mail sites are to begin a three day strike over “draconian” attacks on working conditions.
Postal workers wildcat in York
Postal workers wildcat in solidarity with a colleague facing disciplinary action
Collections drivers at the York mail centre struck during the afternoon shift yesterday over disciplinary action being taken against a colleague. A Royal mail spokesman claimed that 30 workers walked out at 1.30 pm, leading to managers covering their duties, collecting mail from postboxes and businesses around the city.
Strike threat resurfaces at Royal Mail
Hot on the heels of the wildcat strikes over pay in 2007, Royal Mail faces the threat of a new round of industrial action.
Unions have rejected the postal group's plan to overhaul its pensions scheme and are poised to ballot nearly 150,000 members over whether they back the plan or not.
Burslem postal workers extend strike
Postal workers at Burslem delivery office step up their dispute by extending their current 15 day strike by a further fortnight.
The 100 strikers, member of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), are refusing to deliver mail until at least 16th January following a meeting between workers. The extension came ahead of talks between the union and Royal Mail.
Burslem postal workers strike over Christmas
Postal workers at the Burslem delivery office start industrial action in a dispute over the suspension of 12 colleagues.
Burslem Delivery Office has been the site of a large number of unofficial walkouts this year, alongside the official strike action in August and October.
