Workers at Royal Mail own overwhelmingly voted to support further strikes over a pay dispute with the firm, a key union has launched.
Extra than 98% of team represented by the Verbal substitute Workers Union (CWU) voted in favour of business motion that’s susceptible to have 115,000 team this summer.
This can apply a strike by team already deliberate between 26 and 31 August and on 8 and 9 September that the union has said will be this summer’s greatest walkout.
Workers are anxious a “dignified, real pay rise”.
“We are in a position to not maintain on residing in a nation the build bosses rake in billions in profit while their staff are compelled to exhaust meals banks,” CWU current secretary Dave Ward has said beforehand.
“When Royal Mail bosses are raking in £758m in profit and shareholders pocketing £400m, our members will not salvage pleads of poverty from the firm.
“The CWU’s message to Royal Mail’s leadership is easy – there will be serious disruption till you salvage valid on pay.”
The UK has been hit by a wave of strikes this summer as team – conscious that companies are already struggling to recruit expertise – fight for pay increases to benefit with the hovering fee of residing and rampant inflation.
Royal Mail was once scathing of their evaluation of the union’s decision to strike a 2nd time.
It said: “As an replacement of sexy meaningfully on alternate that will actual future jobs, the CWU has decided to pollagainst alternate.
“This alternate can be wished to toughen the pay kit we own supplied to CWU grade colleagues, worth up to 5.5%. This is the greatest magnify we own supplied for plenty of years and the CWU own rejected it.”