Scottish Postal workers strike over jobs

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Workers at seven Royal Mail delivery offices in Scotland are taking part in a strike in a row over jobs and services.

About 330 staff at two offices in Edinburgh and others in Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Grangemouth, Bathgate and Irvine have joined the strike action.

About 160 distribution drivers in Edinburgh were among thousands in the UK who took action on Friday.

Royal Mail said "robust contingency plans" were in place.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said up to 8,000 members in London and about 160 in Scotland walked out from 0600 BST on Friday.

The union accused Royal Mail of cuts which break a national agreement and threatened modernisation.

Royal Mail said it had honoured existing agreements and urged the union to call off the strikes.

A Royal Mail spokeswoman said it had robust contingency plans in place to minimise disruption to its customers.

She said: "Industrial action will not modernise Royal Mail - it will simply disrupt the service, annoy customers and lead to an even greater loss of business, leaving Royal Mail less able to protect full time jobs - and the Universal Service in the competitive marketplace."

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She said: "Industrial action will not modernise Royal Mail - it will simply disrupt the service, annoy customers and lead to an even greater loss of business, leaving Royal Mail less able to protect full time jobs - and the Universal Service in the competitive marketplace."

Course it won't ,what you really need is a totally bent senior management layer prepared to perpetrate fraud, fiddle their bonuses and falsify the quality of service figures,now thats at the cutting edge of modernisation Spot the management parrot You would think they might alter at least one word of the script,it must be so depressing