postal service
News and articles about work, policy and struggles in the communications sector, from telecoms to postal and delivery services around the world.
Oxford mail centre wildcat strike
Postal workers at Royal Mail's Oxford Cowley mail centre are on unofficial strike today over the suspension of a union rep.
The rep was accused of organising a flying picket to visit another mail office (Watlington) during Friday's official strike. 100% of staff were on strike for the late shift this evening.
Some workers believed the suspension had been planned in advance by management to provoke a walk out in order to attempt a change of contracts.
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.
France: Post Office strikes
The flagship branch of the french post office and the only one to open 24 hours a day has been hit by strike actions.
Counter staff, sorting workers and delivery workers at the Le Louvre post office all took part in a one-day strike on April 11.
The counter staff are demanding the withdrawal of a new plan which threatens to slash the 100-strong workforce by 30%. In addition they are demanding that there be no changes to work schedules.
France: Posties win big victory
Postal workers in Paris' 17th arrondissement (district) have won a major victory against management cutbacks.
In addition to the dispute over payment for extra work during the election period, french posties are also threatened by the Facteurs d'avenir (Postmen of the future) plan.
France: Posties prepare for strikes
Workers in seven French departments have given official notice of strike action in relation to a dispute over overtime payments.
The upcoming elections will require large amounts of extra deliveries, postal workers are demanding that they be paid a standard rate for deliveries as their estimate of the number of extra hours required differs heavily from management's. Management are claiming that the average worker will have to deliver an extra 580 envelopes and will be paid on average 7.5 hours overtime per week.
France: Postal counter staff strike in Le Havre
Counter services in Le Havre and the surrounding regions were severely affected by a one-day walkout last Tuesday by postal counter staff.
Only one post office remained open in the town and only 2 out of 14 in the surrounding areas. According to the management only 24% of workers participated, if this is true the workers managed to create an effect greater than their numbers might have suggested. The strike was called by three unions: FO, SUD and CGT.
1995: The French pensions strikes
A short history of the massive strike movement against welfare reform in France in 1995.
During November and December of 1995 France was gripped by the largest strike movement the country had seen in recent years. After three weeks of strikes workers forced a government climbdown over the issue of changes to pensions of public sector workers.
