Postal workers started voting on Tuesday on whether to strike in a dispute over pay. Around 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) received ballot papers and will decide in the coming weeks if they want to mount a campaign of industrial action.
The union is demanding that Royal Mail Group negotiates with them to secure a “straight, no-strings” pay increase for employees. The union said management intends to impose a 2% pay rise which will be a “dramatic real-terms wage cut” because of soaring inflation.
A union spokesman said: “Britain’s postal workers are being forced into accepting a massive pay cut by the same people they have generated incredible profits for.”
