Postal strike across London next Friday (From Your Local Guardian)

Postal strike planned across London next Friday

3:10pm Friday 12th June 2009 in Local news

Communication Workers Union members have voted for a one-day postal strike across London next Friday.

Dave Ward, CWU deputy general secretary, said: “Royal Mail is blocking modernisation by refusing to negotiate change with the CWU.

“We have offered a moratorium on all strike action if Royal Mail will suspend executive action and enter into meaningful negotiations.

“Postal workers deliver a first class service but the current cuts and attitude of management threatens that and worsens services.

“Royal Mail can avert this strike action by pulling back from arbitrary cuts and negotiating modernisation with the CWU.”

Royal Mail denied the union's claiming saying in a statement on its website that: "A strike will not modernise Royal Mail - it will simply disrupt the service to which customers are entitled, lead to an even greater loss of business and leave Royal Mail far less able to protect full time jobs.

"We call on the unions to honour fully existing agreements, including the agreement the union signed in the presence of the TUC in 2007, which have led to the successful introduction of new ways of working in units throughout the rest of the UK."

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