Tag: UK

Union presses for more upfront pay from UK Royal Mail to avert post strike

Posted by | Aug 12, 2003 | |

Britain’s main postal workers’ union, the CWU, pressed Royal Mail to pay more of its 14.5% pay and productivity offer upfront in order to avert the first national strike for seven years.

Talks at the conciliation service Acas, adjourned last night and are to resume tomorrow, with the CWU hoping that Royal Mail will agree to reduce the 10% of its pay offer linked to productivity changes such as ending the daily second delivery.

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APC Overnight moves into new hub

Posted by | Aug 11, 2003 | |

APC Overnight has moved into a new hub at Essington, Cannock – its fourth move in nine years. The warehouse and office complex has almost tripled in size to 9,000sq metres and is designed to cope with a current 40% growth rate.

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Firms wait to take advantage of UK post strike

Posted by | Aug 10, 2003 | |

Foreign firms see an opportunity to move in as a strike seems inevitable.

The Royal Mail is in a dispute with the postal unions that could turn the clock back to the disastrous industrial relations of the 1970s.

Evoking the image of British Leyland is guaranteed to send a shiver down the spines of managers and directors. And yet that is what management at Royal Mail is doing.

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