Royal Mail staff will walk out for 19 days over the busy Christmas period as a row over pay and pensions continues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Retal Gazette reports the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has confirmed industrial action<\/a> will be taken by workers throughout October, November and December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Further strikes are planned on “Black Friday”, Friday, November 25, and “Cyber Monday” on Monday, November 28, which the union says will have a “dramatic effect.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n READ MORE: UNIONS LAUNCH A LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST THE UK GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT THE RIGHT TO STRIKE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Smaller strikes will be held in the run-up to Christmas involving different combinations of staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A spokesman for the CWU said the action will have a knock-on effect on any deliveries on those dates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Full strikes will be held on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n CWU general secretary Dave Ward said: \u201cThis is a significant announcement, but it is one which matches the level of anger our members feel at the way Royal Mail Group has treated them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese are the same people that have kept the country connected and returned Royal Mail Group to record profit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPostal workers across the UK now face the fight of their lives to save their jobs and the service they provide to every household and business in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe call on everyone to stand with their local postal worker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice? <\/strong>Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Royal Mail had proposed a pay rise of up to 5.5 percent in May 2022 in relation to the courier adding an additional, seventh working day as it expanded its Sunday delivery services on 31 May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the offer was rejected by the CWU, who says it is too low to cover the living costs caused by spiraling inflation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Royal Mail said: “We\u2019re sorry this strike action is likely to cause you some disruption. We will be working to get our services back to normal as quickly as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Royal Mail has well-developed contingency plans, but we cannot fully replace the daily efforts of our frontline workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “We\u2019ll be doing what we can to keep services running, but you should expect significant disruption on dates when strike action is taking place.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on <\/strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and <\/strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Royal Mail staff will walk out for 19 days over the busy Christmas period as a row over pay and pensions continues. The Retal Gazette reports the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has confirmed industrial action will be taken by workers throughout October, November and December. Further strikes are planned on “Black Friday”, Friday, November 25, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[2191],"class_list":["post-29527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-business-news","tag-royal-mail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}