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Royal Mail yesterday won complete backing for its crucial recovery plan from the main postal workers’ union, the CWU – and angered another with plans for up to 3,000 redundancies among managers. The company and the CWU are understood to have reached an agreement that will trigger 10% pay increases for 160,000 postal staff and scrap the second daily delivery. The two sides, who met in considerable secrecy at the conciliation service, Acas, are also understood to have reached a deal on cost of living allowances in London that were at the heart of a spate of unofficial wildcat strikes in the capital. But Peter Skyte, the national secretary of Amicus communication managers, said the “sacking” of 3,000 non-operational managers was a “kick in the teeth” for people who kept the postal service going during the unofficial strikes.

The threat of a strike by postal workers in London in the run-up to Christmas ended today when union leaders gave an assurance that deliveries will not be disrupted. Postmen and women in the capital had warned of two 24-hour strikes later this month in a long running dispute over London Weighting allowances. But Dave Ward, deputy general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, said today he wanted to dispel any fears that postal workers would do anything to “ruin” Christmas.