Royal Mail customers have been warned to expect delays to their online orders, due to strike action taking place across four days at the end of August.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) says services will be disrupted as a result of the industrial action, set to take place on August 26 and 31 as well as September 8 and 9 in a dispute over pay.
Royal Mail has confirmed that they have offered workers a 5.5 per cent pay rise, but the union is disputing that the rise is reflective of a 2 per cent pay increase, a further 1.5 per cent in exchange for a change in terms and conditions as well as a £500 bonus.
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Scottish regional secretary of the CWU, Craig Anderson, told BBC's Good Morning Scotland on Wednesday, August 10, that negotiations had broken down amongst the company and the union.
Craig said: "We're taking this action because we've been given no other option. The negotiations started in February regarding a pay rise for the workers within Royal Mail and the negotiations have broken down.
"They've imposed a 2 per cent pay award without agreement. They offered another 1.5 per cent based on signing away terms and conditions, and a further £500 as a bonus for having targets that they knew weren't achievable.
"So there was never a 5.5 per cent pay offer put on the table."
The regional secretary has called for Royal Mail to "sit back around the table", and contemplate the state of workers quality of life due to the cost of living crisis. He added: "A fair offer from our perspective would be for them they sit back round the table with us and actually look at where or what comes out at the moment with a cost-of-living crisis, where the company's been with the profits that they've made, and actually start negotiating on a percentage pay raise that reflects that."
CWU is among several unions taking strike action this summer, in demands for increased pay offers for workers in light of the rising cost of living. The union is also representing BT workers, as they continue a dispute with the broadband company.
Mr Anderson said it would be difficult to come to a figure due to the uncertainty surrounding inflation, with the most recent figure sitting at 9.4 per cent.
He concluded: "The difficulty we have at the moment is we don't know where inflation will be tomorrow never mind where it will be in six months' time.
"Our members don't want to go on strike but we've been given no other choice. We're at gridlock at the moment and as I say we'd be quite happy to sit back round the table to discuss a pay offer."
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