Postal strike fears

Preventing problems

Due to the forthcoming postal strike vote across the nation, protect your payslips from going astray and request that they be sent to you via email instead.

This way prevents any delay or lost advice, and means that you have your pay advice in your inbox every Wednesday

Should you be currently working thorough Linsco and want your payslip to be emailed, please contact your consultant with your full details, Ni Number and payroll reference to provide your correct email address.

Act now or face delays!

From the BBC

Ballot papers proposing a national strike at the Royal Mail over pay and job cuts are being sent out to members of the main postal union.

The move by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) comes after it organised a number of localised strikes across the UK over the past week.

The CWU said it was prepared to call off all strike action if the Royal Mail agreed to stop all redundancies.

The Royal Mail said the union had already agreed its streamlining plans.

Royal Mail managing director Mark Higson told the BBC's Today programme that he was asking the CWU to call off the national ballot, while he and his colleagues continued to negotiate with union bosses.

He has called the ballot "wholly irresponsible", and that the Royal Mail would continue work to minimise the impact of industrial action on deliveries.

"The changes that we are making are essential to respond to a changing market... and we want the CWU to recognise what it signed up to in the previous agreement," said Mr Higson

Friday strikes

The result of the ballot on a national walkout will be announced on either 8 or 9 October.

The CWU estimates that the localised strikes of the past week have caused a backlog of 20 million letters and parcels in London alone.

However, the Royal Mail says the figure is only nine million UK-wide, of which six million are in London.

The Royal Mail typically delivers 95 million items per day across the country.

Areas affected by localised strike action on Wednesday included Birmingham, Carlisle, Coventry, Nottingham, Northampton, Hadfield, Warrington, Peterborough, Swindon, Leeds and London.

Posted: 17/09/2009 10:54:22