Post staff to end wildcat strike

The wildcat strike began at the Glasgow Mail Centre on last Tuesday 31st July before spreading to Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

More than 1,000 CWU members met in Glasgow on Thursday 2 August. Customers in central Scotland were advised not to post items unless they were urgent.

An official 24-hour walkout by members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) also began on Thursday morning.

The unofficial strike began at the Glasgow Mail Centre in Springburn on Tuesday before spreading throughout Greater Glasgow.

It then spread to Edinburgh, where about 100 postal workers called an unofficial strike at the city’s main sorting office at Sighthill on Wednesday 1st August.

They claimed four workers had been suspended for refusing to handle mail transferred from the strike-affected Glasgow sorting office.

Later, Royal Mail confirmed that a “small proportion” of workers at the Aberdeen Mail Centre had also walked out.

Jim McKetchnie from the Communication Workers Union said workers had voted 60 pct in favour of returning to work from the wildcat strike.

The wildcat strike was called against the backdrop of a nationwide dispute over pay, pensions and future industry changes that has seen the CWU call a series of official 24-hour strikes.