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Content about workers' struggles, strikes, privatisation and events related to the Royal Mail.
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
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 workers' guide to action, now and in future, 2003
A leaflet written by an ad-hoc group of angry postal workers during the 2003 wildcat strikes in Royal Mail. While we do not agree with all of it we reproduce it for reference.
We are a small "underground" group of postal workers in the Southeast. We want to make a brief "address" to our fellow workers. We don't represent anyone apart from ourselves. We're not looking for new "members". Any rumours you hear about who (or where) we are, are probably untrue. For reasons that will become clear, we intend to remain anonymous.
More Royal mail strikes in Bristol
Postal workers in Bristol were on strike today over a local dispute around sick pay arrangements.
The strike was in addition to Friday's national strike, there are currently no further plans for action on this particular issue.
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.
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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."
