BREAKING: Royal Mail workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of continuing industrial action in a dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, according to the Communication Workers Union. Latest: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
The company says that 18 days of strikes to date, including over Christmas, have cost it £200mThe union representing 112,000 frontline Royal Mail staff is increasingly"gambling with their members' futures", a company source has told Sky News as a new wave of strikes looms in their bitter row over pay and modernisation plans.
But he added that the fresh approach to talks was conditional on management"attacks" on his members' being halted immediately. "It is proof that for Royal Mail to begin functioning normally again, there needs to be a change in negotiating approach from its leadership that recognises the depth of feeling from the workforce that make their company.
They claimed that the CWU had not even given its negotiators a pay demand figure, with the talks becoming entrenched on other issues such as Sunday working as Royal Mail looks to bolster its parcel operations in the face of increased competition from the likes of Evri and DHL.The company has previously said that 18 dates of strikes to date, including over the crucial Christmas season, had cost it £200m.
Its other efforts to reduce costs have already resulted in thousands of job losses through voluntary redundancy.
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