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There was anger last week as Royal Mail announced that it intends to close its final average salary pension scheme to new entrants.

Around 100 strikers at Royal Mail’s Burslem office, who have been on strike since 18 December, last week agreed to a deal to end their dispute.

Around 100 strikers at Royal Mail’s Burslem office, who have been on strike since 18 December, have agreed to a deal to end their dispute.

Royal Mail’s attempts to undermine the CWU postal workers’ union have come unstuck at the Burslem delivery office in Stoke-on-Trent.

Bosses at private mail firm TNT are planning to cherry-pick lucrative Royal Mail delivery contracts by competing with the company to deliver post in some business areas.

Royal Mail bosses are talking peace while making war. Behind the warm words of a "new era in industrial relations", they are trying to break the postal workers’ CWU union by harassing and victimising reps with charges relating to last year’s national postal strike.

Socialist Worker spoke to Ben and Edgar, two Burslem strikers in the CWU postal workers’ union who between them have over 30 years’ experience in Royal Mail.

Royal Mail’s consultation on its proposals to change the company’s pensions scheme is drawing to a close.

Royal Mail is spending thousands of pounds a week in an effort to break a postal workers’ strike at the Burslem delivery office in Stoke. Now the CWU postal workers’ union is threatening to spread the strike across the Midlands region.

Around 100 postal workers at the Burslem delivery office in Stoke-on-Trent were set to commence a strike over Christmas in a long running campaign against a bullying management.

Postal workers at the Burslem delivery office in Stoke-on-Trent have responded to a long running campaign of management bullying by voting for strikes over the Christmas period.

The ballot result in the postal workers’ CWU union – which saw members voting to accept a deal to end the dispute with Royal Mail by 51,000 to 28,000 – has disappointed many union activists.