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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Joanna Partridge

Royal Mail pay offer is ‘declaration of war on posties’, says union

Royal Mail postal workers holding placards
Royal Mail postal workers outside a depot in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

The union that represents Royal Mail workers has reacted angrily to the company’s latest pay offer and programme for change, accusing it of a “declaration of war on posties” and raising the prospect of further postal strikes in the runup to Christmas.

Royal Mail has proposed what it called a new “conditional pay-for-change offer” to the Communication Workers Union (CWU), in an attempt to end a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.

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