Royal Mail postal workers to strike for 24 hours on 29 June

Royal Mail postal workers will strike for 24 hours on 29 June in a dispute over pay, the Communication Workers Union has said.

The union’s executive decided to go ahead with the first national postal strike for 11 years after talks with Royal Mail broke down yesterday.

CWU members voted for strike action, in a ballot earlier this month, in response to Royal Mail’s 2.5 pct pay offer and plan to cut 40,000 jobs. The union said it was not opposed to modernisation, but ‘change needed to be underpinned by raising workers’ pay’.

Royal Mail said the CWU’s planned strike action next week would only add to the difficult competitive challenges the company and its people are already facing.

‘Royal Mail will do all it can to mitigate the impact of strike action but we are very disappointed for our customers at the disruption they are now facing,’ said chief executive Adam Crozier. ‘We remain very willing to sit down with the CWU to explain again the absolute need for Royal Mail to modernize and to underline how damaging a strike would be for postmen and women, and our customers.’

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