Royal Mail plans to recruit up to 30,000 temporary staff to deal with upcoming strikes by postal workers and the Christmas rush.

Strike will start on October 22 unless Royal Mail managers and union officials reach agree an 11th hour peace deal.

Asked whether the Prime Minister was worried about the prospect of several thousand job losses in Royal Mail, the PMS replied that the Royal Mail had set out their position on that story. It was his understanding that the Royal Mail had said they had no plans for 16,000 job cuts. In terms of staffing at Royal Mail, it was an operational matter for the company and the PMS would leave it to them to ...

Householders get a raw deal from Royal Mail which is more interested in its commercial clients than delivering letters to homes it has been claimed.

It’s 7am. It’s Sunday. So it’s time for the musical steps. But first, the news. 2 Big Stories Royal Mail to hire 30,000 temps Royal Mail will recruit up to 30,000 temporary staff to deal with upcoming strikes by postal workers and the Christmas rush, the service has said. The Communication Workers Union has called two nationwide strikes next

Delivery and collection staff at Royal Mail start a 24-hour strike, as part of a nationwide dispute over modernisation.

The impending strike by Royal Mail workers is a wonderful opportunity to deal with a long standing issue... the essential obsolescence of the whole notion of state mail monopolies. In this era of highly efficient competing international courier companies, why bother with state letter carriers at all? Do not 'privatise' the Royal Mail as was planned earlier, instead make the workers (very...

by Neal Lawson of Compass. Lobby your MP now to support EDM 428 ‘ROYAL MAIL’ calling on government to abandon privatisation plans Following media reports over the Christmas/New Year period of our forthcoming campaign on the Post Office and Royal Mail, we’re today asking for your urgent help to get MPs to support EDM 428. We must urgently

The threat of disruption to the Christmas post has moved a step closer amid signals that Royal Mail workers have voted "overwhelmingly" for industrial action.

PLANS to part-privatise the Royal Mail were on the verge of collapse last night as Labour MPs warned ministers that the moves will "split the party down the middle" if