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14/12/2016
Post Office Workers To Strike For Five Days Over Christmas
Post Office workers are to take five days of strike action in the week leading up to Christmas.
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) said it is in response to continuing attacks by company chiefs on job security and pensions, and in defence of the Crown Office network.
Six branches in Northern Ireland are to take part in the strike including Belfast, Coleraine, L'Derry, Antrim, Newtownards, and Bangor.
The strike will begin on Monday, 19 December.
Talks are due to be held on Wednesday, 14 December.
CWU general secretary Dave Ward said: "Our members are being forced into fighting to save their jobs and this great institution from terminal decline.”
"We didn't want to be in this position, but unless we stand up now, the Post Office as we know it will cease to exist. We are defending the very future of the Post Office in this country.
"We want a Post Office that works for everyone, for communities, for small and medium-sized businesses, and for the people who serve them – our hard working members, but the people running the Post Office have no serious plan other than further closures and managed decline and we won’t accept that."
(CD)
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) said it is in response to continuing attacks by company chiefs on job security and pensions, and in defence of the Crown Office network.
Six branches in Northern Ireland are to take part in the strike including Belfast, Coleraine, L'Derry, Antrim, Newtownards, and Bangor.
The strike will begin on Monday, 19 December.
Talks are due to be held on Wednesday, 14 December.
CWU general secretary Dave Ward said: "Our members are being forced into fighting to save their jobs and this great institution from terminal decline.”
"We didn't want to be in this position, but unless we stand up now, the Post Office as we know it will cease to exist. We are defending the very future of the Post Office in this country.
"We want a Post Office that works for everyone, for communities, for small and medium-sized businesses, and for the people who serve them – our hard working members, but the people running the Post Office have no serious plan other than further closures and managed decline and we won’t accept that."
(CD)
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