The Communication Worker Union (CWU) has now notified the Post Office that they plan to call on their members who collect, sort, distribute and deliver parcels and letters to take strike action over three days from Wednesday 2 November up to and including Friday 4 November.
The planned strikes on Wednesday 2, Thursday 3 and Friday 4 November involve CWU members in different areas of our organisation, with each area taking strike action on different days. This means most services will only be affected on one or two of the days during the planned days of strike action that week.
Postal Delays
Items posted the day before, during or in the days after any strike action will be subject to delay. We will provide further details of the expected delays to items during the period of industrial action.
What Happens to Post Offices?
Post Offices will be open and offering the usual range of services on days when strike action is taking place.On all days of Royal Mail strike action, collections by Royal Mail from Post Offices will be limited. Customers should expect delays to items sent on strike days and on the days immediately after strike action
What about Postboxes
You can continue to use postboxes throughout industrial action. Please bear in mind collections from post boxes will be limited on day/s of industrial action and delay to items should be expected.
Getting services back to normal after strike action
After industrial action takes place, we’ll be increasing our network capacity and using additional resources to assist with getting services back to normal.
Collections from business customers, Post Offices and post boxes will resume the day after strike action finishes.
Deliveries will also resume the day after strike action finishes. This will include accelerating the delivery of NHS and healthcare letters and critical Government mailings in the days following strike action.
Why is the CWU in dispute with Royal Mail over pay?
What CWU Says
CWU Royal Mail members have had an unagreed 2 percent pay deal imposed on them. This is at a time when RPI inflation is currently running at 11.8 per cent and when Royal Mail has announced Group profits of £758 million and when the company is paying out many millions to private shareholders. In a national strike ballot over pay, our Royal Mail members voted by a 97.6 per cent majority to take action.
What do our Royal Mail members want?
The pay dispute is not complicated. Members of the CWU are striking for a pay rise that fully addresses the current cost of living.
Is the CWU in dispute with Royal Mail over other issues as well?
Royal Mail members have also voted by 98.7% on a 72.2% turnout for strike action in defence of the Pathway to Change national agreement.
