Strikes to bite again
MORE strikes are due to get under way tomorrow unless a deal to end the long-running Royal Mail row over jobs, pay and modernisation is struck.
A third wave of 24 hour national stoppages is due to be held tomorrow and Monday involving all of the Communication Workers Union’s 121,000 postal members.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber has been chairing talks between the two sides in a bid to avert more disruption.
Managers said last week’s strike led to a huge backlog of more than 50 million items of post, although the union said it believed the figure was much higher. Yesterday Royal Mail said the backlog of mail caused by last week’s postal strikes fell to five million items.
Strike action has involved Middlesbrough’s Mail Centre at Cannon Park and offices in Stockton, Hartlepool, Redcar, Skelton, Guisborough, South Bank and Coulby Newham.
Earlier this week it was announced that Royal Mail will face legal from the CWU over the recruitment of 30,000 agency staff.
