Royal Mail staff warned company in fight for its life as more strikes loom

The union said postal workers “will not budge” until they receive a “dignified, proper pay rise”. The union has announced 19 further days of strike action in the coming weeks. Britain has been hit by a wave of strikes in the past year, with rail employees, barristers and refuse workers having already walked out over pay and conditions amid a cost-of-living crisis.

1. Workers on the railways and at airports are also in pay disputes with employers, with prices for goods in the UK rising at the fastest rate in 40 years.
2. The union has announced 19 further days of strike action in the coming weeks.
3. Picket lines have been mounted outside Royal Mail offices on the sixth day of action in recent months.
4. It is the first of four days of industrial action, with walk-outs also taking place on 31 August as well as 8 and 9 September.
5. But while there have been calls for pay rises, there are concerns that higher wages to cope with the current cost of living could fuel further inflation.

Bosses say reforms need to be agreed, to afford pay increases and modernise the railway. The government’s emergency Cobra committee will hold its second meeting of the week later to discuss how to minimise the impact of the wave of industrial action. Around half of rail lines are shut again on Wednesday, with no services at all in most of Scotland and Wales.

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A spokesman for Royal Mail said the company had made a “best and final pay offer worth up to 9% over 18 months”. “It’s meant we’ve had to staff up to protect our customers,” she told the BBC, with three times instaforex review as many requests for advice on delivery windows from shoppers than usual. Watch Make Sense of Strikes on iPlayer and find out more about why people are striking and whether industrial action works.

“We call on the CWU leaders to cancel their planned strike action and accept our invitation to enter talks through Acas without further delay. “The CWU leadership’s choice of damaging strike action over resolution is weakening the financial position of the company and threatening the job security of our postmen and women. “Royal Mail is losing £1m a day and must change faster in response to changing customer demands. Royal Mail employees have gone on strike in Britain as the country braces for more industrial action ahead of what is being called a new “winter of discontent”. The union has called for Royal Mail to increase wages to an amount that “covers the current cost of living”.

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Fears are growing that teachers, nurses and other NHS workers could add to the strike action after being balloted by their unions over underinflation pay rises. Those efforts included slashing 10,000 jobs at Royal Mail, a target it reached months before schedule and which will save the business about £150m over the next financial year. IDS’s chief financial officer, Mick Jeavons, said “there is no further job cut plan, or target”. The CWU said plans include delaying the arrival of post to members of the public by three hours, cuts in workers’ sick pay and inferior terms for new employees. The CWU said the plans included delaying the arrival of post to the public by three hours, cuts in workers’ sick pay and inferior terms for new employees. It said plans by the postal service include cutting workers’ sick pay, delaying arrival of post by three hours and inferior terms for new employees.

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“We have taken another detailed look at Royal Mail’s proposals, and it is worse than we first thought. The business is seeking to cut 700 posts on top of the 1,200 cuts last year. It is already running on fumes, depending on Unite members’ dedication and professionalism to hold the service together. No letters will be delivered during strike days, said Royal Mail, but as many special delivery and Tracked24 parcels as possible would be delivered. The union representing the workers is demanding a pay rise that more closely reflects the current rate of inflation. Firms have warned of the hit to Christmas sales as postal workers squeezed by rising costs fight for higher pay and better conditions.

Businesses which use Royal Mail have also issued warnings to customers. Inflation, the rate at which prices rise, is at a 40-year high of 10.1% and expected to surpass 13% later this year. The RMT disagrees with some of the changes and wants a guarantee of no compulsory job losses. The first-ever nationwide strike by nurses is also expected to go ahead this week.

“Postal workers won’t accept their living standards being hammered by bosses who are typical of business leaders today – overpaid, underqualified, out of their depth.” “While bosses rake in £758m in profit and shareholders take £400m, workers are expected to take a serious real-terms pay cut,” interactive brokers he added. The union has demanded Royal Mail group enters into negotiations to secure a “straight, no-strings pay increase for workers”. Workers on the railways and at airports are also in pay disputes with employers, with prices for goods in the UK rising at the fastest rate in 40 years.

Along with the rail industrial action on Tuesday and Wednesday, there will also be train strikes on Friday and Saturday. Tuesday’s walkout by rail staff left services running at about a fifth of capacity, on a day when snow, ice and fog hampered road and air travel. bitbuy review The average pay rise for workers in the private sector was 6.9% between August and October. The dispute has been going on since the summer and like all the industrial action across rail, the NHS, teachers, border staff and driving examiners, pay is a key issue.

Inflation, the rate at which prices rise, hit 9.1% in May and is forecast to go higher later this year. Royal Mail said it had offered workers a “deal worth up to 5.5% for CWU grade colleagues, the biggest increase we have offered for many years, which the CWU rejected”. But he said Royal Mail’s chief executive and board “should seriously consider their futures” as the ballot was “also a vote of no confidence”. Any strike dates are yet to be decided but the CWU said if a walk out goes ahead, it could amount to the biggest ever action taken by its members. IDS bosses said they were not aware of whether personal attacks from either politicians or unions played a part in Thompson’s decision to step down. “We’ve been at a crossroads and we were moving forward, and Simon decided this was the opportunity for him to step down and appoint new leadership,” Williams said.

“It is insulting the intelligence of every postal worker for the Royal Mail chief executive, Simon Thompson, to claim that their change agenda is ‘modernisation’. The Royal Mail industrial action will span over 19 days in the run-up to the busy Christmas period and will cover peak periods such as Black Friday on 25 November and Cyber Monday on 28 November. Picket lines have been mounted outside Royal Mail offices on the sixth day of action in recent months. “Despite nearly three months of talks, the CWU have not engaged in any meaningful discussion on the changes we need to make to adapt,” a statement added. “We’ll continue to revise and improve performance in all our units every year,” the IDS chair, Keith Williams, said.