Postal workers begin two-day national strike

Up to 42,000 mail centre staff and network drivers launched a 24-hour strike, while 78,000 delivery and collection workers will walk out tomorrow.

CWU members voted by 3-1 in favour of a national strike in a ballot complaining that jobs were being axed, pay cut and working conditions made worse.

Union shows its true colours

People are saying we are against modernisation as a union but we are not," he said. "Sixty-thousand jobs have gone from this business in the last five years in agreement with the union. That's not a union against modernisation. What we want to do is get Royal Mail fit for the 21st century, but it's got to be through agreement, not dictatorship or imposition.

History of conflict

Shortly after the union announced that the strikes would go ahead, the government published figures showing that almost 1m working days have been lost due to industrial action at Royal Mail since 2000

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