A deal to end a strike by British postal workers has been agreed between the Royal Mail and the Communications Workers Union.
Talks resumed on Sunday 2nd November between Royal Mail and labour union leaders to end a growing wildcat strike that has thrown postal services in Britain into disarray.
Read MoreThe government pleaded with both sides in the postal strike to resolve the conflict before serious damage was done to the economy. Patricia Hewitt, the Trade Secretary, said that both the Royal Mail and the wildcat strikers, whose unofficial action has brought the postal system to a halt, should resolve their dispute. “Customers are losing their mail, postal workers are losing their pay, and neither megaphone diplomacy nor unofficial action will solve the problem,” she said.
Read MoreThe Brazilian Post Office has a network of services in 5,507 cities. with 82,000 employees, 12,200 postal outlets and a modern fleet of about 33,000 vehicles, transporting a volume of about 24.9 million pieces per day from north to south. In addition to the receipt and delivery of mail, the Post Office uses its network to supply various other services to the customers, including SEDEX express couriers, payment of bills, taxes, fines, and other kind of banking services.
Read MoreWhat does $6 billion buy? If you are Klaus Zumwinkel, the visionary management board chairman of Deutsche Post AG, which runs the German post office, it buys you entry into the global express delivery/logistics field at a time when your monopoly profits from Germany’s mail delivery business are coming under increasing pressure from government-driven liberalization and tariff regulation. But a scat at the table is not a license to print money, as Zumwinkel is learning.
Read MoreRoyal Mail’s lawyers are gathering evidence to launch a court challenge against the postal union blamed for encouraging unofficial walkouts across the country.
Following pressure from business, which is worried about the wider impact of the nine-day dispute, company managers received positive legal advice on the strength of their case.
The company has decided to wait before pulling together witness statements and documents, which allegedly prove the secret involvement of union militants. Court action would be one of the most significant tests of Thatcherite union legislation since the Royal Mail successfully challenged in court the Communication Workers Union’s right to hold strikes without a ballot in 1990.
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