CWU
Postal workers to escalate strike action
Two weeks of continuous disruption will hit Royal Mail as rotating strike action is planned by the postal workers union CWU.
Although postal workers will individually take 2 days of strike action in the next two weeks, the strikes announced mean that there will be two weeks of continuous disruption to mail services.
The strikes call out separate functions nationally on different days and the timing is aimed at maximising the impact on mail.
Oxford postal strike continues as Abingdon wildcats
Posties on unofficial strike since Monday are due to meet this morning, as a suspended worker is re-instated after a wildcat walkout in Abingdon.
The Oxford Mail reported that millions of items of post will be left undelivered for days as 500 Royal Mail workers in Oxford continue with an unofficial strike.
The employees at the sorting depot in Cowley are involved in a dispute which began on Monday afternoon when post worker and CWU steward Steven Gill was suspended.
Postal strike: picket line interview
The first national postal strike in 11 years happened on Friday 29 June (2007) with a 24-hour stoppage. libcom.org caught up with some pickets on the line in Brighton.
What are the issues behind this strike?
It’s war in Royal Mail
As one of the most significant workplace battles of recent years comes to the boil, Freedom talks to a postal worker about how class warfare is in the post.
A battle between postal workers and managers over the future of the Royal Mail looks set to turn nasty following a litany of attacks on working conditions, staffing numbers and now wages.
Pat (the postman) stated:
Bridgwater postal workers strike for three days
Over 100 Royal Mail workers have been on strike in Somerset against new working practices which would see them lose hundreds of pounds.
Royal Mail managers have been sent to Bridgwater to cover the strikers' work, which was set to last from Friday to yesterday.
130 workers at the sorting office are on strike over plans to reorganise working practices. One postal worker on thisisthewestcountry.co.uk commented that he "would lose £500-£600 a year if we agree to the pay and changes."
Support for national postal strike this summer growing
Britain looks set for a national post strike this summer after independent polls showed that a clear majority of Royal Mail workers intend to vote in favour of action next month.
Taken from The Times
Postal workers are set to deliver a 65 per cent yes vote in favour of a national strike, according to independent polling commissioned by the Communication Workers Union (CWU), the main postal union.
Selectron workers sit-in
Workers at the Selectron Cwmcarn factory in South Wales staged a sit-in yesterday upon the arrival of the company's European Vice President.
The company announced at the end of March that it would close the factory in South Wales, making 150 people redundant, many having worked there for more than 25 years.Selectron has already reduced the workforce from 700 in the past five years, and sent many contracts overseas including one last year to Singapore.
Six days of strikes set for Staffordshire post
Strike action is scheduled at the Royal Mail from 8-10 and 12-14 March if a is worker victimised for involvement in an earlier strike.
Since Christmas, postal bosses in North and Mid Staffordshire have attempted to replace full-time jobs with part-time ones. But after six days of strike action by 700 posties across 11 depots, managers have been forced to back down.
Wildcat solidarity strike over suspended post striker
Postal workers in Staffordshire are on strike for a third day in a dispute over the suspension of a colleague.
Postal workers in Staffordshire are on strike for a third day in a dispute over the suspension of a colleague.
The BBC reported that staff in Burslem walked out on Friday and Saturday after a colleague was suspended for alleged "aggressive behaviour" towards a female worker.
York postal workers wildcat strike to support colleague
Royal Mail workers walked out of the firm's York depot on Friday 15 December in support of a van driver who had been suspended.
Sam Southgate reported on thisisyork.co.uk that about 30 collection drivers and some other staff staged the wildcat strike at the firm's Leeman Road base, at about 3.10pm yesterday, to support their work-mate.
The three-hour stoppage caused disruption to parcel collections from post offices and Royal Mail's business customers.
