Escalate strikes to break postal deadlock!
Royal Mail has offered postal workers a three-year pay deal, averaging just over 3% for each year of the deal. The company is still ploughing ahead with its plans to radically overhaul workers’ conditions, including extending hours and tightening sickness and attendance procedures. It has guaranteed no compulsory redundancies, but only for the life of the deal. Despite the offer clearly coming nowhere near union demands for an above-inflation pay increase and an abandonment of planned cuts, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has called no further strikes. Union leaders continue to stress...