Post Office workers are to stage fresh strikes in escalating action over pay, their union has announced.
Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) will walk out on August 26, 27, and 30, with some of the action coinciding with strikes by BT, Openreach, and Royal Mail employees.
It will be the fourth round of action by Post Office workers, including in larger high street “Crown” offices, administration, and across the supply chain.
Around 2,000 workers will walk out on August 26, the same day as 115,000 postmen and women from all parts of Britain go on strike in a separate row over pay.
Crown office employees will strike again on August 27, while supply chain and admin members of the union will walk out on August 30.
CWU assistant secretary Andy Furey said: “We’re as determined as we have ever been to keep fighting and win a settlement that will protect our members’ standard of living through these exceptionally difficult economic times.”
Pat Harrington, General Secretary of Solidarity, commented:
“Postal workers are right to strike in the face of an unreasonable, below inflation, pay offer. We must give them whatever support we can. The strikers are fighting against the lie that workers must pay for the economic mismanagement of government and that they should take real-term pay cuts while firms pay dividends out.