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...

The Communication Workers Union condemns plans announced today to privatise Royal Mail and vows to fight the politically motivated move by all means. A YouGov poll last month found a majority of voters of every party oppose privatising Royal Mail with support at only 15 per cent. At the same time, Royal Mail is a market

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

Today the postal workers’ union, the CWU, are lobbying parliamant against the partial sell off of the Royal Mail. The government claims it is necessary to sell a one third stake in Royal Mail due to the huge hole in the pension fund, but Royal Mail took an 18 year contributions holiday on employer side

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

Royal Mail is to recruit 30000 temporary workers in an attempt to reduce the impact of a series of nationwide postal strikes.

Government plans to sell off part of Royal Mail have been met with protests from postal workers and Labour MPs.

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.

Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union have blamed each other for the postal dispute as 120000 workers are set to vote on whether to launch a national strike.