Royal Mail workers have confirmed two days of strike action before Christmas sparking more postal chaos fears.
The strikes look set to end any hopes of huge amounts of Christmas post being delivered in the period and will be the 17th and 18th days of action in an increasingly bitter dispute. An offer extended to the company to suspend the strikes and establish a period of calm from now until the January 16, 2023, was rejected almost immediately, according to the Communication Workers Union (CWU).
This included a deal between the union and the company to both sign a Joint Statement incorporating Royal Mail’s latest promise of no. compulsory redundancies. As reported by the Mirror, the management’s rejection of any talks falls on the eve of National Postal Workers Day - December 21 – an annual event which celebrates the role that posties play in British life – and following a recent boast that Royal Mail bosses have amassed a £1.7 billion ‘war chest’ to destroy postal workers’ livelihoods.
