The Union of Communication Workers is to ballot all postal workers on a demand for a 35hour working week The move follows an almost com plete breakdown in negotiations with Royal Mail bosses on their "Employee It aims to abolish higher grades and bring in so-called teamworking— forcing workers to provide cover for absenses win no extra pay The union's joint general secretary Alan jolson has spent the last few weeks scurrying back and forth be tween management and his own executive desperately trying, at the eleventh hour, to come up with a deal.
Most union activists believe that a They reckon that workers are tocally browned off with management's Intimidatory tactics and point to the wave of unofficial strike action that has been taking place since last year. All of which Johnson has disowned.
Labour movement activists need to start making anks with tie posal More to bronce mixi mum soldarity in what could be a long
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