Thousands of postal workers in the U.K. began a two-day strike on Thursday, disrupting Black Friday after talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union fell through.
The CWU has announced 10 further days of strike action between Thursday and Christmas Eve, of which four have been formally notified, with the last falling on Dec. 1.
on the London Stock Exchange — said in a statement Wednesday that it had tabled its "best and final offer" and accused the union of "holding Christmas to ransom." "The CWU's planned strike action is holding Christmas to ransom for our customers, businesses and families across the country, and is putting their own members' jobs at risk."
However, the union accused the company's executives of "turning Royal Mail Group into a gig economy-style parcel courier, reliant on casual labour," imposing compulsory redundancies on postal workers while retaining agency staff on lower pay, and offering a "wholly inadequate, non-backdated 3.5% pay increase."
"These proposals spell the end of Royal Mail as we know it, and its degradation from a national institution into an unreliable, Uber-style gig economy company."in protest at pay and conditions, after Royal Mail initially imposed a 2% pay increase on workers while U.K. inflation was heading toward double digits. U.K. inflation hit 11.1% in October.
Rail strikes have brought the country's train services to a virtual standstill on multiple days throughout the year, and the RMT union, whose members work for Network Rail and 14 other train operators, recently voted in favor of four more 48-hour rail strikes in the run-up to Christmas.
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