Royal Mail
Content about workers' struggles, strikes, privatisation and events related to the Royal Mail.
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.
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".
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.
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.
Exeter postal workers to vote on Christmas strike
Devon post workers are to vote tomorrow (Friday) on whether to take industrial action over the Christmas period in an ongoing row over flexible working and overtime.
The Mid Devon Star reported that more than 400 members of the Communication Workers Union at Exeter Mail Centre are due to take part in the ballot, which will last for two weeks.
In a statement, the Royal Mail said that ballot was "disappointing." A spokesman said: "We would rather resolve the issue amicably."
2003: Postal workers wildcat strike
A short history of the largely successful wildcat stoppage of thousands of postal workers in the UK, and the developments which led to the strike.
Background
Wildcats return with a roar - postal wildcat strike, 2003
Article about the Royal Mail wildcat strike and other wildcat actions in the UK in 2003.
We could have borrowed this headline of last weeks English Anarchist publications, but we actually nicked it from the Financial Times of the 6 November. The wildcat strikes are back, after the work stoppages at Heathrow airport, there have been wildcat actions by the postal workers and the fire fighters in the last two weeks. How can this be?
Bedford: wildcat postal strike
100 Royal Mail workers wildcat in Bedford in solidarity with one of their colleagues targeted by bosses with disciplinary action.
Management say workers from other areas are providing a scab service and have called for workers to return to work.
