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28/10/2009
Further Postal Strikes 'Less Likely'
While more than 30 million items of mail were delayed during last week's strikes, it has emerged today that union leaders are having second thoughts about an escalation.
They are to decide today whether or not a new wave of postal strikes will go ahead this week as planned.
The postal executive of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) will meet to discuss progress made during talks with the Royal Mail and a final decision on industrial action will then be announced just hours before the walkout is due to begin at 4am on Thursday.
The two sides in the dispute have spent the last two days in negotiations chaired by TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber.
He said the talks were "useful" and added that more work would be done to try to reach an agreement on jobs, pay and modernisation.
The union's postal executive has been briefed by negotiators, led by Deputy General Secretary Dave Ward.
On the management side, Royal Mail Managing Director Mark Higson has likewise reported back to Chief Executive Adam Crozier.
However, if the hopes are not realised, then 120,000 postal workers are due to strike on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the CWU said.
This will be a staged plan of strike action and will follow a similar pattern to that last week.
Two 24-hour walkouts last week, led to the 30 million items of mail being delayed - although this figure was far less than had been initially anticapted by management - thanks in large part to pre-planning for the strike.
The union announced that 43,700 staff in mail centres, as well as drivers and garage staff, will strike on Thursday.
The following day, 400 workers in Plymouth, Stockport and Stoke who deal with badly addressed mail, will walk out.
Further disruption to mail deliveries is expected on Saturday when 77,000 delivery and collection staff go on strike.
(BMcC/KMcA)
They are to decide today whether or not a new wave of postal strikes will go ahead this week as planned.
The postal executive of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) will meet to discuss progress made during talks with the Royal Mail and a final decision on industrial action will then be announced just hours before the walkout is due to begin at 4am on Thursday.
The two sides in the dispute have spent the last two days in negotiations chaired by TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber.
He said the talks were "useful" and added that more work would be done to try to reach an agreement on jobs, pay and modernisation.
The union's postal executive has been briefed by negotiators, led by Deputy General Secretary Dave Ward.
On the management side, Royal Mail Managing Director Mark Higson has likewise reported back to Chief Executive Adam Crozier.
However, if the hopes are not realised, then 120,000 postal workers are due to strike on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the CWU said.
This will be a staged plan of strike action and will follow a similar pattern to that last week.
Two 24-hour walkouts last week, led to the 30 million items of mail being delayed - although this figure was far less than had been initially anticapted by management - thanks in large part to pre-planning for the strike.
The union announced that 43,700 staff in mail centres, as well as drivers and garage staff, will strike on Thursday.
The following day, 400 workers in Plymouth, Stockport and Stoke who deal with badly addressed mail, will walk out.
Further disruption to mail deliveries is expected on Saturday when 77,000 delivery and collection staff go on strike.
(BMcC/KMcA)
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