H & D Media Archive

  • Postal Strike To Go Ahead Within Hours

    Postal Strike To Go Ahead Within Hours

    A national postal strike is to begin within hours, crippling mail deliveries across the country. It comes after the Royal Mail and union bosses failed to reach an agreement in their dispute over pay conditions and modernisation. Up to 120,000 members of the Communication Workers...

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  • Postal union ‘happy to go to Acas’

    Postal union ‘happy to go to Acas’

    Private postal workers from Royal Mail’s biggest competitor could take to the streets if this week’s threatened postal strike goes ahead. Billy Hayes, from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) told BBC Breakfast they are happy to go to the conciliation service Acas.

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  • Royal Mail temps hire ‘stupid’ says union

    Royal Mail temps hire ‘stupid’ says union

    The Royal Mail has said it is recruiting as many as 30,000 temporary staff to help it cope with a national postal strike. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has called two nationwide strikes next week over pay, conditions and reform. Union general secretary Billy Hayes...

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  • Wolverhampton March

    Wolverhampton March

    On 14 March up to a thousand postal workers and officials from the Communication Workers Union staged a lively demonstration in Bilston, the Wolverhampton constituency of the Postal Affairs Minister Pat McFadden. The protest demanded the government drop its plans for postal privatisation, calling for...

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  • Billy Hayes on Radio 4

    Billy Hayes on Radio 4

    Billy Hayes was on the Radio 4 Today programme on Friday 16th October. Billy Hayes. the postal workers leader, has accused Royal Mail of having a ”cynical” plan to sideline the union as the company braces itself for a national strike. Mr Hayes, general secretary...

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  • Billy Hayes on Newsnight

    Billy Hayes on Newsnight

    NEWSNIGHT. On Thursday Newsnight on BBC2 covered the upcoming industrial action with an exclusive story on the Royal Mail dispute. The Communication Workers Union is appalled by details in a Royal Mail document which expose that the company wants to sideline the union. The internal...

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