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"Suspension should only occur when it is necessary to prevent the risk of further breaches of conduct, to protect employees, property or mail, or to protect Royal Mail’s good image and standing in the community." The Royal Mail Conduct Code

Everyone needs to get behind the postal workers. If at all possible they need to be fighting alongside them. The strikes are magnificent – overwhelmingly supported, militant and defiant. They have united men and women, black and white, young and old.

Postal workers are engaged in the most important battle this country has seen for many years. Every worker in Britain will feel the implications of its outcome. We are fighting a vicious management that sees this as a crucial confrontation.

The CWU union has announced new dates for post strikes. The proposed programme for industrial action over two weeks on a functional/site basis is as follows:

A very big issue in the post dispute is the change to delivery office start times that managers are threatening to implement on or around 13 August.

Neil: "We all work the morning shift. Some of us start at 5.30am, some start much earlier. I start at 4am because my round is very big and the prep (the time we spend sorting out all the mail before we do the delivery) takes a long time."

"If the union wants people to keep paying the political fund it had better stop giving the money to Labour. Why must we keep funding the people who are attacking us? In my office four people have stopped paying the political fund."

The chairman of Royal Mail, Allan Leighton, has been in secret negotiations to buy BHS, the department store chain, from Sir Philip Green, the retail billionaire.

Hundreds of workers at Oxford mail centre walked out on unofficial strike on Monday after union rep Steve Gill was suspended after a complaint about his behaviour during the last strike.

Bristol: Activists brought eight banners to the CWU picket line at the Patchway office in Bristol at 5am during last weeks strike.

Around 140,000 postal workers are fighting to defend the postal service and to get decent pay and conditions.

The postal workers’ strike last week was even more powerful than the one on 29 June. Royal Mail described it as patchy. Maybe it was a bit – in some places 98 percent of workers were out, in others it was as few as 95 percent!