Workers have voted to mobilise their collective strength against the company’s impoverishing pay decree. But now that the union has been handed its mandate it is rapidly rowing back, repeating worthless pleas to the company to reconsider its position.
He was summoned to a meeting with management last month and informed the 2 percent award would be implemented by company diktat.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is sitting on the largest strike mandate it has been handed for decades, refusing to name any dates for action against Royal Mail’s imposition of a 2 percent pay award this year.Īround 115,000 postal workers at 1,500 workplaces returned a 97.6 percent vote for strike action in a 77 percent turnout, the CWU announced last Tuesday.ĭeputy Secretary Terry Pullinger claimed the union would recommend strike action following a successful vote if Royal Mail had not changed its position.
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