Members of the CWU union are embroiled in a long-running row, which is about to proceed within the construct as much as Christmas.
Postal staff will stage a contemporary strike on Thursday in a long-running dispute over pay and circumstances, with a collection of walkouts deliberate for the approaching weeks.
The Communication Employees Union (CWU) stated its 115,000 members throughout the UK will likely be taking motion, describing it as the most important strike in a 12 months that has seen industrial unrest throughout a number of industries, together with rail.
Picket strains will likely be mounted outdoors Royal Mail places of work on what would be the sixth day of motion in current months.
The union has accused the Royal Mail of planning structural change, which might successfully see workers in safe, well-paid jobs was a “casualised, financially precarious workforce in a single day”.
The CWU stated plans embody delaying the arrival of submit to members of the general public by three hours, cuts in staff’ sick pay and inferior phrases for brand new workers.
The union has introduced 19 additional days of strike motion within the construct as much as the busy Christmas interval.
Normal secretary Dave Ward stated: “Postal staff face the most important ever assault on their jobs, phrases and circumstances within the historical past of Royal Mail.
“The general public and companies additionally face the top of each day deliveries and destruction of the particular relationship that postal staff and the general public have in each neighborhood within the UK.
“It’s insulting the intelligence of each postal employee for Royal Mail chief govt Simon Thompson to say that their change agenda is ‘modernisation’.
“It’s nothing greater than an asset stripping marketing strategy that may see the break-up of the corporate and the top of Royal Mail as a serious contributor to the UK financial system.
“Royal Mail Group declare to be dropping £1 million a day. The CWU consider these figures must be scrutinised.”
A Royal Mail spokesman stated: “Three weeks in the past, Royal Mail invited the CWU to enter talks by means of Acas to discover a decision to our change and pay dispute. We now have not reached an settlement with the CWU on this request.
“Royal Mail is dropping £1 million a day and should change sooner in response to altering buyer calls for.
“The CWU management’s alternative of damaging strike motion over decision is weakening the monetary place of the corporate and threatening the job safety of our postmen and ladies.
“We name on the CWU leaders to cancel their deliberate strike motion and settle for our invitation to enter talks by means of Acas with out additional delay.
“We apologise to our clients for the inconvenience the CWU’s continued strike motion will trigger.
“We’re doing all we will to minimise any delays and preserve folks, companies and the nation linked.”
