Great Britain: Royal Mail employees vote yes to national strike

A strike to protest against job and service cuts. Two years after the last national postmen strike, a similar scenario is taking shape in the UK. “This is a huge vote of no confidence in Royal Mail management” Dave Ward, CWU deputy general secretary, said. “Royal Mail has never really been engaged in modernization. They've been running down the business, running down services and cutting costs and it's that business plan that postal workers have overwhelmingly rejected today” (see our dispatch No. 090848). However, the union leader said that it was still possible to sign an agreement before the strike. Because of the strikes which burst out last summer in many post offices, 20 million letters and packages weren’t delivered. But this is nothing to what a general strike could do.
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ch No. 090848). However, the union leader said that it was still possible to sign an agreement before the strike. Because of the strikes which burst out last summer in many post offices, 20 million letters and packages weren’t delivered. But this is nothing to what a general strike could do.

Threatening strike for businesses as Christmas approaches. The CBI employers’ organization asked the strikers not to strike around Christmas because it would have a considerable impact on businesses’ activit

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