Tag: Europe

Postal strike averted in Ireland as union accepts labor court’s ruling

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

A threatened strike in Ireland’s national postal service was averted Wednesday when the major labor union accepted a compromise ruling from the Irish Labour Court. The 10-page ruling called for directors of An Post to give workers a previously agreed 5 percent raise immediately and a further 2.5 percent raise next May. The Communication Workers Union, which represents about 8,500 workers at An Post, said they would accept the proposal and cancel their previous plan to strike before Christmas.

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Deutsche Post to close down further post offices

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post has announced that it will restructure its network of outlets by closing up to 200 of its own post offices and by converting them into postal agencies based at retail outlets. Management highlights that the restructuring will not entail redundancies.

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UK Royal Mail Letters Managing Director appointed

Posted by | Nov 23, 2005 | |

Ian Griffiths, Group Managing Director of GKN Automotive, has been appointed Managing Director of Royal Mail Letters, it was announced today. Reporting to Adam Crozier, Royal Mail’s Group Chief Executive, Mr Griffiths will have day-to-day responsibility for the delivery of Royal Mail’s annual postbag of more than 20 billion letters. Mr Griffiths will be joining the board of Royal Mail Holdings plc, chaired by Allan Leighton, and he will also sit on the company’s Management Board, which is chaired by Mr Crozier. He is expected to take up the appointment early next year.

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Corporate Mailing Matters extends into secure transactional mail

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

Communications company Corporate Mailing Matters (CMM), has capitalised on its long experience in secure financial services mailings to extend the company’s activities into transactional mail (statements, statutory messages, notices, customer service correspondence). CMM has invested in GBP500,000 worth of additional equipment and facilities to underpin its transactional mail offering, and has already processed GBP750,000 of transactional business.

The company’s new transactional mail business is focusing on two clear clients areas – life and pensions administration, and fund management client service. These areas build organically on CMM’s original core business of financial reporting.

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