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...A source close to National Express said the group remains committed to the UK but noted that the name change is more reflective of the company’s global composition and other strong local brands, such as...
...Ahead of a walkout last week, the union agreed 5,000 individual exemptions through local talks with hospital representatives, but this process will be stopped for the March dates....
...The ballot move comes as Britain enters an “autumn of discontent” with strikes disrupting rail networks, major ports, Royal Mail postal services and 999 emergency call handlers joining continuing action...
...Agency and the Office for National Statistics....
...served notice on Royal Mail Group for two more days of action by postal workers....
...Nurses, Royal Mail staff in the Communication Workers Union, bus drivers and baggage handlers are all due to strike later this week....
...postal workers start a two-day strike over pay, jobs and conditions....
...Bus drivers, refuse collectors and baggage handlers have staged walkouts across the country; more than 100,000 postal workers at the Royal Mail Group have voted to follow suit....
...general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT)....
...A separate 2019 survey by the National Federation of Subpostmasters found that three-quarters of its members earned below the then national living hourly wage of £8.21....
...We should be able to pull this off,” said Kerry Sautner, a scholar at the National Constitution Center who also leads the local chapter of the League of Women Voters....
...But a chance encounter with the website of the Universal Postal Union changed all that....
...However, the Post Office claimed the strike would not affect Royal Mail and the company had put “robust contingency plans in place”....
...Michael Pooler Earnings National Grid FY 61.63p (57.90p) Royal Mail FY 36.48p (42.80p) Results forecasts, from Thomson Reuters, are for fully diluted, post-tax EPS in local currency for the stated fiscal...
...With its emphasis on “delivering cultural change” and innovations such as joint training for local-level union reps and managers, it seems to embody the spirit of that dinner....
...and the UK’s Royal Mail....
...Postal Services Bill: Legislation to allow the partial privatisation of Royal Mail, to “resolve the problems” surrounding its deficit, and potential changes to the regulatory framework....
...The coalition also pledges to reform the “national pay and conditions rules” for teachers, which will dilute the power of unions and give schools freedom to pay more and dismiss poorly performing staff....
...Royal Mail and the postal union on Friday offered starkly different interpretations of the interim agreement that has allowed strikes to be called off until the new year....
...The model for this was Totnes, where a female GP has replaced Anthony Steen after a ballot of all locals – ie not just Tory supporters....
...The deal means national strikes by up to 121,000 postal workers planned for today and Monday will not now go ahead....
...Lord Mandelson strongly welcomed the continuation on Tuesday of talks between the Communication Workers Union and Royal Mail management, after a full day of negotiations on Monday failed to resolve the dispute...
...Lord Mandelson came under intense fire from the main postal union on Wednesday night, after the business secretary attacked strikes due to start on Thursday as “totally self-defeating”....
...TNT, which resisted the change, had already complained last year that two competitors, the local Sandd and Deutsche Post’s Selektmail unit, were in effect undercutting the national minimum wage by paying...
...Postal workers were behaving as if they had a “death wish”, the Conservative party said on Thursday, as 120,000 Royal Mail staff began voting on a national strike over pay, jobs and services....
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