London Postal membership will be taking 3 days strike action next week

Notices were served this afternoon to Royal Mail informing them that the London membership will be taking 3 days strike action next week.

Further action has also been agreed for the following week but as it will be wider than just London will not be revealed at the moment.

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Royal Mail shambles

Mail hidden in trailers,managers allegedly rigging research to give a false impression about the efficiency of deliveries,and DOM's ticking boxes that everything is ok in the morning,but failing to untick them when deliveries fail or are uncompleted.

Welcome to the new and improved 'there's not much mail anyway and we need to cut more jobs' Royal Mail.

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London Postal strike 19th June

The Union have served Royal Mail with 138 notices for strike action in London next Friday into Saturday.

Ten thousand postal workers in all areas of deliveries, collections and processing across London will take industrial action for 24 hours starting from the early shift on Friday 19th June.

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London posties return 91% yes vote for industrial action

London posties have delivered a massive yes vote for strike action in pursuance of a national agreement.

A CWU spokesperson for London said "It must be unprecedented to have 154 Royal Mail uniformed grade offices unanimously voting yes in such numbers, it does not happen often even in a national ballot.

Striking should be used a last resort but this is now our last resort to save our terms and condition and fight for our futures. "

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Postal Bill clears Lords

The Government's Postal Services Bill has cleared its third reading in the House of Lords and will now pass to the House of Commons.

In the commons 180 MPs have signed Early Day Motion 428 opposing the privatisation of Royal Mail of which 148 are Labour.

The Lords have also ignored that 75% of people now oppose the part-privatisation of Royal Mail, with 60% of people saying it needs to be reformed but must remain in the public sector according to an ICM poll.

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Post Office chat closed

The Business and Enterprise Committee web forum on the future of the Post Office has now closed

A bandwidth supping 327 posts were made on the sparsely advertised forum which closed its doors on March 10th.

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London calling,and then some

London are being balloted for strike action along with 50 other offices around the country over Royal Mail's cuts in services to the public and their jobs, terms and conditions.

In a letter to management the London Divisional Committee are asking Royal Mail to abide to national agreements and that their actions are in breach of the MTSF the IR Framework and the Pay & Mod agreements to name just a few.

The ballot opens on Monday 18th May and runs for two weeks.

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2009 Pay Claim

Dave ward has written to Royal Mail HR Director Dale Haddon outlining our pay claim which is due on the 1st April,but in time honored fashion not a penny of it will be spent on easter eggs,but probably baubles and tinsel.

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Google:The posties friend

Google street view was launched this week in the UK and RMC users have been busy looking for anything Royal Mail related.

Pouch boxes,posties on their rounds,Royal Mail buildings and vans have all been found.

But one user has found something quite unbelievable and shows that Google,really is the posties friend.

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Mandelson hides his ca$h

It's been revealed that Mandy has bunged his hoard of cash in a secret trust along with 4 other ministers.

And that he will also receive a European Commission pension at the age of 65 for around 4 years work.

Accountants believe that Lord Mandelson must have assets worth at least £500,000 and probably more than £1 million to make it worthwhile setting up a complicated trust.

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