Pay 2007
Royal Mail: Wildcat strikes spread as post piles up
Wildcat stoppages at Royal Mail offices in Scotland have now spread to thirteen offices. Meanwhile 200 million items of post are now undelivered, and official strikes and further ballots continue.
Thousands of workers at Glasgow mail centre were on an unofficial strike when thirteen drivers who refused to cross the picket line of the official strike at Edinburgh airport were suspended.
Glasgow: 5,000 postal workers in unofficial action
During the ongoing rolling strikes over pay and conditions, thousands of postal workers launched a wildcat strike in support of colleagues who were suspended.
Thirteen workers who had refused to cross a picket line at Edinburgh airport were sent home, and up to 5,000 colleagues walked out in support. The CWU said a deal was offered to bosses which would have averted the unofficial action but it was rejected. The strike began at Glasgow Mail Centre at midnight last night, followed by delivery offices shortly afterwards.
NHS/UNISON health workers disappointed at low pay increase offer
UNISON calls government pay increase "paltry." Improved offer expected; NHS ballot in August-September will determine outcome.
NHS employers and union representatives meet today to discuss a new settlement for health staff in England.
Mike Jackson, UNISON’s lead negotiator, said the unions were hopeful there would be more money on the table.
Man killed by Royal Mail scab
Tragedy struck yesterday when one of 5,000 Royal Mail managers acting as scabs drove his lorry into an Astra van, killing one and injuring a second person.
The Daily Mirror reported that a strike breaking Royal Mail boss was arrested yesterday after his lorry had a crash with a van killing the driver.
Office worker Phil Edmonds, 46, was at the wheel of the articulated truck when the vehicles collided, pushing the Astra van into the central reservation of a dual carriageway.
UK: Coca-Cola workers strike over pay
Workers at a Coca-Cola plant have begun a 48-hour strike, followed by an overtime ban, after rejecting a below-inflation pay rise.
Staff voted to strike in a ballot last month, and join a wave of public and private sector disputes this year over below-inflation pay rises.
Transport for London workers vote for strike action over pensions
RMT members covered by the Transport for London Pension Fund have voted by a massive 15-to-one margin for strike action to protect the pension rights of people forced to leave their jobs through ill-health.
The union is calling on the employers involved (list below) to guarantee that they will not bring forward or support proposed changes that would dramatically affect qualification for ill-health pensions.
Royal Mail: Secret pensions robbery plan
The Mirror today revealed a secret plan of mail bosses to slash pensions for tens of thousands of workers.
The newspaper stated that Royal Mail workers will have their pensions slashed unless they work five years longer.
The move would cost staff members thousands of pounds a year. Some could see their retirement pay halved.
In addition the posties' final salary scheme would be closed to new members from next year.
PCS consults civil servants over strike action
280,000 civil servants will be consulted on a ballot for further strike action during August. This is likely to mean more strikes over public sector pay in the Autumn.
A consultation involving 280,000 members of PCS on the next steps of the union's campaign against civil and public service job cuts, below inflation pay and increasing privatisation, got under way today.
Post office staff on strike in Coventry
Workers at the Post Office in Coventry were on strike Thursday over moves to shift services to WH Smith.
The decision to move Coventry's Hertford Street branch into WH Smith has led to four strikes within three weeks. The strike from 8.30am until mid-day was supposed to be the end of industrial action, however a decision was made to continue if there was no response.
Neil Robinson, branch secretary of the CWU, said: "We will keep going - we will continue the fight."
Evidence of disastrous scab work in the Royal Mail strikes, 2007
Images, stories and videos from Youtube of accidents caused by use of managers as untrained scab labour to attempt to break the postal workers strikes against deterioration in pay and conditions.
Update
Tragedy struck on 26 July when one of 5,000 managers acting as scabs drove his lorry into an Astra van, killing its driver and injuring a second person.
Other accidents
