Britain’s postal workers voted Thursday in favor of striking to back demands for a pay increase, though no dates have been set for a walkout.
Members of the Communication Workers Union employed by the Royal Mail voted 63 percent in favor of a strike. Sixty-five percent of the union’s 145,000 postal members took part in the ballot.
Members of the Communication Workers Union have voted overwhelmingly to support an executive council recommendation to take strike action over Royal Mail pay. 145,000 ballot papers were sent out to members and the results were as follows. here was a 65 per cent return 63 per cent voted in favour of taking industrial action 37 per cent voted against.
Read MoreThe German post office is likely to apply for a licence to collect business mail in the UK following the publication of plans to open the market to competition.
Deutsche Post is the largest in a group of postal and distribution companies thought to be queueing to enter previously closed parts of the UK market now that the regulator, Postcomm, is to end the postal delivery monopoly held by Consignia, formerly the Post Office.
The removal of Royal Mail’s monopoly would not signal the introduction of blue post boxes and rival postmen, the regulator said on Thursday. For most people, there would be no change to the way they posted and received mail in the near future.
Read MoreConsignia’s deteriorating financial position left Postcomm with a dilemma. It could introduce competition slowly to allow managers to prepare by improving efficiency or it could speed up the process to give consumers more immediate alternatives if the historic problems of the Post Office proved intractable.
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