Truce. After several weeks of conflict, the management of Royal Mail, the British post, and the Communication Workers’ Union, CWU, have buried the hatchet. A transitional agreement negotiated last week under the leadership of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) suspends collective action in post offices and sets out the bases for renewed social dialog to implement the modernization program as of 2010. The agreement particularly stresses the need to regain trust in this “period of calm,” at all levels. All local conflicts have to be settled via negotiation, and unions promised that Royal Mail employees would work during the Christmas holidays, in exchange, where appropriate, of appropriate bonuses meeting the requirements provided for in national agreements.
ment particularly stresses the need to regain trust in this “period of calm,” at all levels. All local conflicts have to be settled via negotiation, and unions promised that Royal Mail employees would work during the Christmas holidays, in exchange, where appropriate, of appropriate bonuses meeting the requirements provided for in national agreements.
Mutual guarantees. The agreement restores social dialog for the implementation of the company’s modernization program. Offices which implemented t
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