Union Anger as Royal Mail Plan to Hire 30,000 Temps During Strike

Royal Mail have reveled plans to hire upto 30,000 temporary workers as strikes and Christmas aprocahes to help keep mail flowing. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) have expressed this as a "stupid move" but...

Post strike 'seals fate of hand deliveries'

"Business leaders have attacked the "six-day" postal strike, due to start this week. David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said thousands of small firms would be affected, but warned disruption would damage the postal service in the long run. He...

Junkmail postman still in job

A postman suspended for telling people how to stop receiving junk mail says he remains a Royal Mail employee, but will know if he is to be fired in a week's time.

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