London postal workers vote 'Yes' for strike action Postal workers in London have voted by four to one (79 per cent) in favour of strike action against plans to shut three mail centres and one delivery office in London. The Communication Workers Union is concerned that the closures will lead to compulsory redundancies. Up to 3,500 Royal Mail staff will take strike action unless reassuranc...

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...

Bob Crow tried to make this strike about pay, then it was about conditions, then it was about safety, then it was about showing solidarity to workers facing disciplinary action. The truth is that the strike was always about him and his desire to flex his muscle. Clearly other transport unions and even other members of the RMT didn't want to play his game. His call for "all out" action has failed w...

from the Plymouth Herald 600 WORKERS have walked out in a wildcat strike at Langage Power Station in protest at the use of foreign workers. Jerry Pickford, regional officer for Unite South West, said the workers had walked out in support of similar action across the rest of the UK. The union, which says it does not

Postal deliveries in Bridgwater and the surronding area are facing disruption after members of the Communication Workers Union voted by 49 votes to 25 to take strike action in the run up to Christmas. The row centres on full-time jobs being replaced with part-time posts. At a meeting tomorrow...

This is from the Bolton News. There is a ballot on it asking if people support the strike, which currently shows 82% in favour. POSTAL workers are to stage a 24-hour strike on one of the busiest mail days of the year. Up to 400 workers at the Bolton Mail Centre in Farnworth will walk out on

Thousands of Royal Mail managers are to be balloted over possible strike action in a dispute over job cuts.

TALKS between the Royal Mail and union leaders over threatened strike action ended in stalemate last night, with the employer adding it would only go to mediation if the lo

Union leaders are considering legal action over what they see as "strikebreaking" by the Royal Mail which announced over the weekend it was hiring 30000 temporary workers to clear the backlog of post.

Privatisation may be defeated, but that won't solve Royal Mail's many problems, writes Tim Webb Royal Mail is braced for further industrial unrest, with unions expected to ballot more regions for strike action as early as this week. It follows the vote last week by postal workers in London to stage a 24-hour walkout this Friday. With plans to privatise the state-owned group in disarray, ...