It looks set to end any hopes of huge amounts of Christmas post being delivered
Royal Mail staff have confirmed two days of strikes before Christmas. An offer extended to the company to suspend the strikes and establish a period of calm from now until January 16, 2023 - as well as the Communication Workers Union (CWU and the company both signing a Joint Statement incorporating Royal Mail’s latest promise of no compulsory redundancies - was rejected almost immediately
The strikes will be the 17th and 18th days of action in a bitter dispute - and look set to end any hopes of huge amounts of Christmas post being delivered in the festive period, reports The Mirror. The management’s rejection of any talks falls on the eve of National Postal Workers Day, on December 21. This is an annual event which celebrates the role that posties play in British life.
“When a company openly boasts of having built a £1.7 billion fund to crush its own workers rather than use that money to settle the dispute and restore the service, then you know dark forces are clearly at work. Their sole intention is to destroy the jobs of postal workers and remove their union from the workplace.
"Our members will not stand for this, and further action will take place in 2023. Our message to the public and businesses is that postal workers do not want to be here, but they are facing an aggressive, reckless and out-of-control CEO committed to wrecking their livelihoods.”
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