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The 2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes is an industrial dispute in the United Kingdom involving Royal Mail and members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which began in the summer of 2009. It was the country's first industrial action involving postal workers since 2007 and came about after the Communication Workers Union accused Royal ...
Communication Workers Union. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is the main trade union in the United Kingdom for people working for telephone, cable, digital subscriber line (DSL) and postal delivery companies. It has 110,000 members in Royal Mail as well as more in many other communication companies.
Strike dates. 29 June 2007 - First strike. 12–13 July 2007 - Second set of strikes [4] 4–5 October 2007 - Business-wide CWU strike. 8–9 October 2007 - Business-wide CWU strike. 10–11 October 2007 - All CWU union members return to work, however wildcat strikes continue in Liverpool and London. [5]
England's trusty mail carriers have plunged the country into uncertainty by staging a two-day strike last week, with three more mail-less days scheduled to begin on Thursday. In a country where ...
Royal Mail's industrial disputes include a seven-week strike in 1971 after a dispute over pay and another strike in 1988 due to bonuses being paid to new staff recruited in London and the South East. [88] Royal Mail suffered national wildcat strikes over pay and conditions in 2003. [89]
Royal Mail workers are to stage a further 19 strikes in the next two months in a deteriorating dispute over pay and conditions. The Communication Workers Union announced that the action in October ...
January 26, 2023 at 3:18 AM. Royal Mail has revealed the cost of strike action in a bitter dispute over pay and conditions has reached around £200 million, helping pushing the business to a hefty ...
[16] [17] The CWU criticised Royal Mail for "pleading poverty" despite having posted a full-year operating profit of £758 million two months before. [16] On 17 August 2022, CWU announced that members at Royal Mail had voted by 98.7% for further strike days over terms and conditions (adding to the separate dispute over pay) [18] on a 72% ...