Royal Mail to be hit by rolling strikes

[Stormproof]

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POSTAL union leaders are considering launching 10 days of rolling strikes that could leave a backlog of 100m undelivered letters.

The crippling industrial action, which could start as early as next week, would encourage hundreds of Royal Mail customers to defect to other providers.

The “nuclear option” is being weighed up this weekend by Dave Ward, chief negotiator for the Communication Workers Union (CWU). Tomorrow he will offer for the first time to go into mediation with Royal Mail bosses and call for an independent inquiry into working conditions at the postal service.

A CWU source said: “If this is not taken up by the company, then that almost certainly means there will be a series of rolling strikes. The earliest they could start would be the following Monday.”

About 61,000 of more than 140,000 postal workers voted to strike last week in a dispute over modernisation that will involve thousands of job losses.

One source said: “Ten days of rolling strikes is being talked about — that

is the nuclear option. Another is a combination of one-day national walkouts followed by three-day rolling strikes. Nothing has been ruled out yet.”

Post-Switch, a firm that helps companies set up contracts with DHL, UK Mail and other private delivery services, said it has seen a threefold increase in business in three months.

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[PrestwickPostie]

Post-Switch, a firm that helps companies set up contracts with DHL, UK Mail and other private delivery services, said it has seen a threefold increase in business in three months.

and who is going to deliver their mail during the strikes

it won't be the likes of UKFail, Dhl, Tnt etc thats for sure

[janitor]

Business people by their very nature are gullible, in the 2007n strikes we had one come into the callers office to pick up a parcel, with a big smile onhis face he said " you can strike as long as you like i've just signed up wit TNT so it wont effect me" guy behind the counter produces a DSA envelope from office, and says" you mean like this" chap looks at it and says "yes how did you get those" " well who do you think TNT get to deliver them". smile vanises blood drains from face and he leaves office muttering.