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News and articles about work, policy and struggles in the communications sector, from telecoms to postal and delivery services around the world.
Communication worker issue 5, 1988
A special bulletin of the rank and file Communication Workers Group's newsletter covering a strike ballot for a shorter working week.
From November 17th, probably in 1988 but possibly in 1987. If you know please let us know.
Weekend wildcat strikes hit Royal Mail in Edinburgh
Hundreds of postal workers in Scotland staged wildcat strikes over the weekend creating a backlog of mail.
The Daily Record today reported that staff at the processing centre launched the unofficial action on Friday night over working conditions.
Yesterday, Royal Mail bosses were meeting workers and union officials in a bid to resolve the dispute.
Around 1000 staff work at the automated processing centre at the Gyle.
Royal Mail bosses slammed the action as "unnecessary".
Canada: Wildcat strike in post wins extra staff
Sorting office workers downed tools yesterday morning after managers had failed to take heed of complaints about excessive workloads.
Citynews.ca reported that workers at a Canada Post sorting facility at Keele and Wilson briefly walked off the job Monday 19 March morning in a wildcat strike.
The reason for their special delivery protest? They claim they've been waiting three months for management to take action on complaints about their excessive workloads.
Belgium: Nivelles postal workers still out on strike.
Workers in the Nivelles offices decided to continue their strike after management refused to award permanent contracts to fixed term workers.
The were also walkouts in Ittre and Braine l'Alleud. Workers' representatives at meetings yesterday obtained some concessions. Management gave way on the organisation of routes and the need for extra workers on those routes.
However management stood firm on the issue of fixed-term contracts, refusing to make these contracts permanent.
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.
Repression against Polish posties
After the strikes of postal workers in November, the authorities of Polish Post (Poczta Polska) are repressing the participants of the protest and also trade union activists. Bartosz Kantorczyk, one of the people that have started the strike, was moved to work in another post office.
Brief history of the Communication Workers Group, 1987-1989
A brief account of the Communication Workers Group (CWG), a radical group of postal workers initiated by anarcho-syndicalists in the UK.
The article, written by one of its members, outlines the group's birth, growth and decline two years later.
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.
Poland: Deal between post bosses and unions condemned
An analysis of the deal struck between Polish postal service bosses and unions following the strikes of last month, which saw workers drop many demands.
On Sunday, December 17 anarchists held a picket in front of the main post office in Warsaw in order to protest against the deal most trade unions made with the bosses and to show solidarity to those who had still not signed the daeal and who were deciding that day whether or not to renew strike action.
