More than 100,000 Royal Mail workers have announced plans to strike on two of the busiest days of the year for the postal service.
Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are set to stage 48-hour walkouts around both Black Friday on 25 November and Cyber Monday on 28 November, due to an ongoing dispute over pay and working conditions. Members have already taken part in a series of walkouts in recent weeks - and while strikes planned for earlier in November were called off, the union's general secretary warned that industrial action will continue in the run-up to Christmas unless the issues are resolved, The Mirror reports.
General secretary Dave Ward said of the ongoing dispute: "Posties are in the fight of their lives against the Uberisation of Royal Mail and the destruction of their conditions. But 115,000 of our members will not just accept this war on their livelihoods and their industry."
