Royal Mail workers to hold 24-hour strike in Birmingham
“With management walking away from this agreement they have sent a clear message to the CWU and its members that they intend to embark on a regime of ‘dictatorial’ management and view the union merely as an obstacle.”
But a Royal Mail spokesman said: “Having met the union more than 50 times in recent months, it is increasingly clear that the CWU refuses to believe that mail volumes are declining despite the clear evidence of this in the UK and in every other postal market around the world.
“We again condemn the CWU for striking locally over much needed modernisation and change which has already been successfully implemented by our people in the majority of offices around the UK and is working well. The changes are all covered by the 2007 Agreement on Pay and Modernisation, which the CWU leadership signed in the presence of the TUC but which they are now reneging on in a way that clearly hurts our customers and our people and damages Royal Mail.
“The union claims to support modernisation, yet acts to destroy it.”
The Royal Mail has drawn up contingency plans to minimise the impact of the strike.
