The Latest Breaking News from CWU

Strike action along with the usual backlog over the festive period mean that Christmas cards may not be delivered until February, a union insider has reportedly said

Members of the CWU are planning more strikes in December

Thousands of Royal Mail workers have staged a rally to mark another strike in the increasingly bitter dispute over “unachievable” conditions they said would “destroy” the company. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) from across the UK congregated outside Parliament in central London to voice their anger about the…

The CWU has written an open letter claiming that staff have been instructed to bin door to door mail

They said conditions proposed by the company are ‘unachievable’ and would ‘destroy’ the service

Royal Mail insisted the mountains of parcels outside the centre were "typical for this time of year"

"We can’t in living memory remember scenes were mail was stored outside like this."

Many among the animated crowd are wearing pink hi-vis vests, waving flags and holding placards that read “strike to win” and “save our Royal Mail”

Photos handed to the Mirror show cages full of post waiting outside mail centres in Bristol and Warrington. Royal Mail insists it's 'typical for this time of year' - but union sources claimed it shows 'chaos' in the system

Royal Mail workers have begun a wave of strikes that will stretch until Christmas Eve amid a bitter dispute over pay and conditions. Around 115,000 Communication Workers Union (CWU) members are walking off the job across the UK on Friday while “millions of pieces of mail” pile up, the union…

The area outside parliament was filled with postal workers in pink fluorescent jackets from the Communication Workers Union