More than 115,000 British postal workers will stop working for four days between late August and early September to demand “a decent and appropriate pay raise,” the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) said in a statement on Tuesday.
The union “demands that the Royal Mail Group start negotiations on a real wage increase for workers,” the organization said in a press release. The union denounces the two percent pay increase that management recently “imposed” on them, according to the CWU, but which is deemed too low in the current inflation context.
But “the CWU has rejected our offer of an increase to 5.5 percent (…), the largest increase we have proposed in many years,” Royal Mail said in a statement.
The United Kingdom is increasingly faced with strikes as a result of price increases that affect the purchasing power of the British.
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