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This is the 13th day theyve been on strike this year. not far away, at the mount pleasant sorting office, 100 agency workers and royal mail managers are sorting the post. filling in for 1,000 striking workers. the company says its working hard to process the christmas post. we sympathise with any disruption that has been caused for our customers, butjust to reassure, on a day like today, even with lower staffing levels, we are still able to process between 900,000 to a million items just through...

At the mount pleasant sorting office in north london, 100 agency workers and royal mail managers are sorting the post, filling in for 1000 striking workers. and the company says its working hard to process the christmas post. we sympathise with any disruption that has been caused for our customers, butjust to reassure, on a day like today, even with lower staffing levels, we are still able to process between 900,000 to1 million items just through this site alone. and there is 36 other mail centr...

Just through this site alone. and there are 36 other mail centres around the country doing very similar things to ensure that we do maximise the amount of mail coming to our customers, to minimise that disruption. royal mail says the future survival of the business depends on being at the forefront of next—day parcel delivery, but that means changed working practices, which is at the heart of this dispute. royal mail really is at a crossroads, losing £1 million a day. despite that, we are put...

The rmt has also announced new strike action lasting from late on christmas eve to the morning of the 27th of december. the rmt said there had been no improved offerfrom the rail delivery group, which represents the train companies since the proposals the union rejected on sunday. a 4% pay rise this year, and another 4% next year, conditional on changes to working practices. rmt members will now get a vote on an updated offer by network rail, which employs maintenance staff and signal workers. t...

Next year, offered to rmt members, they say it is not enough for the simple reason it comes with too many conditions. changes to working practices, extra sunday working for example, closure of ticket offices, potentially single driver trains without guards on board, that kind of thing, which the rmt says is unacceptable. network rail has also made an offer to its employees, but the rmt has recommended they will reject it, although get a chance to vote on it. but it does look as though next week ...

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Of the 27th of december. the rmt said there had been no improved offerfrom the rail delivery group, which represents the train companies since the proposals the union rejected on sunday. a 4% pay rise this year, and another 4% next year, conditional on changes to working practices. rmt members will now get a vote on an updated offer by network rail, which employs maintenance staff and signal workers. that closes on monday. the union has recommended they reject it, but whatever the outcome, it wi...

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They are car driven, convenience places. 0ne they are car driven, convenience places. one of the things that came out from the pandemic was that the reason to embrace the communities, to walk into them and to make use of the things that are there, the local businesses. you mentioned about the green perspective, what we need to do is to give people more reason to visit these places, notjust retail and shopping, medical reasons, officers, working, for well—being and for living. if we bring all t...

Or motivation to settle. as it stands, therell be 48 hour strikes on the 13th and 14th and 16th and 17th of december, as well as on the third and fourth and 6th and 7th of january. and on top of that, workers at network rail will down tools from late on christmas eve until the morning of the 27th of december. the rail delivery group, which represents train companies, has offered staff a 4% pay rise this year and the same next year. but theyd have to agree on changes to working practices, which t...