Postal workers will strike across the UK tomorrow amid an ongoing dispute with Royal Mail.
Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) – who represent Royal Mail workers – will walk out of every Royal Mail workplace in the country, accusing Royal Mail of an "asset stripping plan".
It will be the sixth day of action out of a scheduled 25.
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The dispute is over Royal Mail senior management’s proposals for structural change, which the union claims would see 115,000 employees currently in secure jobs "be turned into a casualised, financially precarious workforce overnight".
One proposal includes delaying the arrival of post to members of the public by three hours – an idea workers have said would leave them vulnerable to serious health and safety trouble in the height of summer and the depth of winter.
The union says other proposals include a reduction in workers’ sick pay, inferior terms for new employees and the enforcing of ‘total flexibility’ on workers.
The dispute, which began in Spring 2022, has escalated in the previous weeks. As a result, the union announced 19 further days of strike action in the Christmas build-up, with delays and disruption likely.
CWU General Secretary Dave Ward said: “Postal workers face the biggest ever assault on their jobs, terms and conditions in the history of Royal Mail.
“The public and businesses also face the end of daily deliveries and destruction of the special relationship that postal workers and the public have in every community in the UK.
“It is insulting the intelligence of every postal worker for Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson to claim that their change agenda is ‘modernisation’.
“It is nothing more than an asset stripping business plan that will see the break-up of the company and the end of Royal Mail as a major contributor to the UK economy.
“Royal Mail Group claim to be losing £1m a day. The CWU believe these figures need to be scrutinised.
“Royal Mail are setting a narrative here to present the company a financially unviable to set up the takeover by Vesa, a private equity firm based in Luxemburg. We will not just stand by and let that happen.”
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