Postal employees have gone out on strike once more at this time – and extra walkouts are deliberate within the run as much as Christmas.
The union representing 115,000 Royal Mail employees mentioned it was the biggest to be held within the UK this 12 months.
Pickets strains have been mounted for the sixth time in current months and no breakthrough in talks is seemingly nearby.
The Communication Employees Union (CWU) has introduced an extra 19 days of strike motion to happen within the coming months.
Until a deal is reached, there will probably be common strikes till early December, together with round Black Friday, one of many busiest days for on-line purchasing.
It has accused Royal Mail’s administration of planning to delay the arrival of put up to members of the general public by three hours, cuts employees’ sick pay and roll out inferior phrases for brand new staff.
The union mentioned it might flip jobs within the business right into a ‘casualised, financially precarious workforce in a single day’.
Bosses on the Royal Mail, which was privatised in 2013 after greater than 500 years of public possession, say it's shedding £1 million a day and must reform.
Normal secretary Dave Ward mentioned: ‘Postal employees face the largest ever assault on their jobs, phrases and situations within the historical past of Royal Mail.
‘The general public and companies additionally face the top of every day deliveries and destruction of the particular relationship that postal employees and the general public have in each neighborhood within the UK.
‘It's insulting the intelligence of each postal employee for Royal Mail chief govt Simon Thompson to say that their change agenda is “modernisation”.
‘It's nothing greater than an asset-stripping marketing strategy that may see the break-up of the corporate and the top of Royal Mail as a serious contributor to the UK financial system.
‘Royal Mail Group declare to be shedding £1 million a day. The CWU consider these figures must be scrutinised.’
A Royal Mail spokesperson mentioned: ‘Three weeks in the past, Royal Mail invited the CWU to enter talks by means of Acas to discover a decision to our change and pay dispute. We have now not reached an settlement with the CWU on this request.
‘Royal Mail is shedding £1 million a day and should change quicker in response to altering buyer calls for.
‘The CWU management’s selection of damaging strike motion over decision is weakening the monetary place of the corporate and threatening the job safety of our postmen and ladies.
‘We name on the CWU leaders to cancel their deliberate strike motion and settle for our invitation to enter talks by means of Acas with out additional delay.
‘We apologise to our clients for the inconvenience the CWU’s continued strike motion will trigger.
‘We're doing all we are able to to minimise any delays and preserve folks, companies and the nation linked.’
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