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Some 2,000 Post Office workers are set to receive their strike ballot papers on Saturday of this week after pay talks broke down with bosses. 

Post workers in two offices walked out last week over allegations of unfair sacking of their colleagues.

Crown Post Office workers voted to accept a pay deal which sees wages increase by 7.5 percent.

The postal and finance and telecoms sectors in the CWU union both held their conferences in Bournemouth from Tuesday to Thursday of last week. The postal conference was the first since Royal Mail was privatised last year. It showed signs that workers already face serious problems.

Some 800 workers attended the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) annual conference in Bournemouth this week.

The CWU union conference which begins on Sunday of this week will be the first since Royal Mail was privatised by the government.

A post worker in Oxford has won his job back after workmates struck to demand his reinstatement.

Post workers in the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) have accepted an agreement reached with Royal Mail bosses.

The membership ballot over whether to accept the agreement the CWU union has reached with Royal Mail was due to end on Wednesday of this week.

CWU union members in Royal Mail are voting on a deal with bosses.

Some 100 post workers in Torquay are set to be balloted for strikes after a colleague was sacked just before Christmas.