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Postal workers in Oxfordshire struck on Thursday and Friday of last week and Monday of this week in a battle for justice and fair treatment in the workplace.

Post Office workers in south west Wales struck for two hours on Monday in protest at the closure of offices in Swansea and Llanelli.

Exeter postal workers voted unanimously to return to work this morning after hearing that they had won a "total victory".

Post Office workers in Greater Manchester and South West Wales have voted overwhelmingly for strikes against closures and privatisation.

Postal workers at Exeter mail centre have walked out unofficially and spontaneously to defend their CWU union and their local rep Fran Choules.

Postal workers in Carterton and Witney in Oxfordshire have given management another week to come up with a deal to avoid a strike.

Over 1,000 Royal Mail workers in four distribution centres across England have voted in favour of industrial action against heavy-handed management handling of changes to mail circulation.

The result was due this week from an important strike ballot over transfers of work without agreement. Although it covers only just over 1,000 people, their action could halt the entire Royal Mail operation in Britain.

Some 500 Post Office staff across 34 offices in Greater Manchester and South West Wales are being balloted for strikes over the franchising out of Crown office services to WH Smith.

IMAGINE FACING the sack for an alleged offence against a person whose identity is never revealed to you. And then add that management will not tell you when or where the offence is supposed to have taken place.

POSTAL WORKERS across Britain will soon start a strike ballot over their bosses' plans to privatise the Cash Handling and Distribution (CHD) section. The Post Office wants to sell CHD to Securicor, a full privatisation that will affect 3,000 workers.

Why have Post Office managers felt confident enough to move towards 40,000 job losses and the destruction of Parcelforce? One big reason has to be the behaviour of the CWU leaders last week. They met to discuss the possibility of holding a one-day strike over pay on Wednesday this week.