Great Britain: Parcelforce, Royal Mail’s parcels division, strikes deal with CWU on work on Sunday

The CWU communications’ union has announced that negotiations have been successfully concluded with Parcelforce Worldwide over the impact of the new seven-day service on staff’s working conditions. Indeed, the company wants to introduce work on Sunday to guarantee deliveries on the weekends.
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Founded in 1990 as a standalone subdivision by Royal Mail, Parcelforce Worldwide employs 4,500 staff at 53 depots. It has its central operational hub in Coventry and serves some 30,000 customers annually, processing 35m parcels. The company’s employees collect the parcels from direct customers and from the Post Offices to be taken to the network delivery offices and onward to the processing centre at Coventry where they are distributed to the appropriate offices for delivery. The deregulation o

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