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POSTAL delivery staff could strike for the first time in four years over the sacking of two postmen.
Oxford East Delivery Office workers voted on Friday to ask the Communication Workers’ Union to approve an official ballot over the dismissals earlier this month. Royal Mail said the sackings were over “wilful delay of mail”.
Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch secretary Chad Croom would not comment on the specifics of the sackings.
But he did say: “We believe it is extremely harsh punishment for what they have been alleged to have done.
“We believe they are innocent of what they have been accused of.”
He said the fact that people had voted to ballot on strike action indicated the strength of feeling over the dismissals.
Royal Mail spokesman Val Bodden said the dismissals were over “two separate incidents of wilful delay of mail”.
She added: “Contingencies would be put in place to ensure delivery of mail.”
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