Unofficial post strikes at Glasgow and Newcastle have ended after mass meetings there voted to return to work. A lunchtime mass meeting in Glasgow today saw a close vote to end the stoppage.
Unofficial walkouts are adding to the scale of the ongoing strike action by postal workers across the country.
A series of unofficial walkouts have demonstrated the feeling to hit back at management in the post.
Cambridge Around 30 trade unionists attended a lively picket line in Cambridge. The CWU members had whistles, megaphones and music in a solid strike. Management tried to bully and harrass those on the picket line by telling them to stop whistling and shouting 'scab' at the few mainly managers who were crossing the picket line and breaking the strike. The picket held firm and workers told them 'You may manage us in there, but this is our picket line and we will not be told what to do'. They soon scurried away and the noise continued.
If you visit Italy, you will notice that, wherever you’re staying, the main street or square will almost invariably be named after Giuseppe Garibaldi. Garibaldi is the national hero who led the movement to unite Italy in the mid-19th century.
Gordon Brown talks of housing as "one of the great causes of our time". Last week his new government launched its "green paper" discussion document on the issue.
The people of the city of Hull feel that they have been abandoned. On 25 June the city was devastated by floods. Five weeks later tens of thousands of its most vulnerable citizens are still coping on their own with the devastation.
Hilary Benn, the secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, said earlier this month, "It is vital that we learn lessons now about how to manage and respond to this type of disaster in the future."
All the contending powers feared the Second World War would end in revolution as the 1914-18 conflict had.
Hundreds of angry post workers walked out of their delivery offices in Glasgow unofficially as a protest against bullying management today.
A strike-breaking post office manager driving a Royal Mail articulated lorry was involved in a fatal accident in Exeter on Thursday of last week.
Asset stripping Royal Mail is to embark on a second massive sale of property assets – just months after concluding a first deal in which 300 sites were disposed of, netting £70 million.
