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The 12 strikes of Christmas - more than 500,000 workers set to walk out in winter of discontent

Chaos is expected across Greater Manchester and the rest of the country during the festive period

Manchester Evening News

'Chaos' as post left OUTDOORS at Royal Mail centres as deliveries hit by strike

"We can’t in living memory remember scenes were mail was stored outside like this."

Manchester Evening News

Thousands of striking Royal Mail workers gather outside Parliament in huge demonstration

Many among the animated crowd are wearing pink hi-vis vests, waving flags and holding placards that read “strike to win” and “save our Royal Mail”

Daily Mirror

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Royal Mail customers warned thousands of stamps will soon be unusable

Thousands of stamps will become invalid in the New Year

Liverpool Echo

Christmas shopping: UK buyers urged to order early amid delivery disruption

Big retailers including Currys and Superdry are experiencing delays as strikes and staff shortages hit

The Guardian - UK

Photos show mountains of post OUTDOORS at Royal Mail centres as deliveries hit by strike

Photos handed to the Mirror show cages full of post waiting outside mail centres in Bristol and Warrington. Royal Mail insists it's 'typical for this time of year' - but union sources claimed it shows 'chaos' in the system

Daily Mirror

All the strikes happening in Scotland over December and Christmas

Here is everything you need to know about strikes across Scotland, including when industrial action is taking place.

The National (Scotland)

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Watch: Why Royal Mail workers are striking

Royal Mail workers have begun a wave of strikes that will stretch until Christmas Eve amid a bitter dispute over pay and conditions. Around 115,000 Communication Workers Union (CWU) members are walking off the job across the UK on Friday while “millions of pieces of mail” pile up, the union…

Evening Standard

Nurses, trains and Royal Mail: Every strike planned in run up to Christmas

From ambulances to buses and postal deliveries, few public services will be unaffected by industrial action in Britain’s new ‘winter of discontent’

The Independent UK

Royal Mail strike - live: Postal workers hold rally in London as walkout causes delays

The area outside parliament was filled with postal workers in pink fluorescent jackets from the Communication Workers Union

The Independent UK

West Lothian postie tells why workers feel they have no option but to strike over pay and conditions

Workers are on picket lines in Bathgate and around West Lothian

Daily Record

Royal Mail workers walk out in first day of strikes ahead of Christmas

Postal staff are striking on several dates throughout December after negotiations broke down

Manchester Evening News

The 12 strikes of Christmas as potential ONE MILLION workers fight for fair pay

In the run-up to Christmas there will be strikes on railways, roads, buses and airports. Nurses, ambulance staff, paramedics and postal workers will also walk out, with many losing pay as a result

Daily Mirror

Royal Mail workers begin wave of pre-Christmas strikes

Thousands of striking staff head to Westminster for protest outside parliament over conditions and pay

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The Independent UK

Postal workers begin Christmas strike action over bitter pay dispute

The Communications Workers Union has started a swathe of strikes in the lead up to Christmas

Daily Record

Scots Royal Mail staff take further day of strike action over bitter pay dispute

Around 11,000 members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) are embroiled in an increasingly bitter dispute over pay and working conditions with the postal service

Evening Standard

Royal Mail workers begin wave of festive strikes across December

Thousands of CWU members will rally at Parliament Square on Friday

The Independent UK

UK strikes timeline: How December’s industrial action will affect you

Protests against salary stagnation and working conditions happening almost every day this month, threatening widespread disruption across Britain as Christmas approaches

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The Independent UK

Royal Mail strike: Every date in December 2022

There are seven planned Royal Mail strikes in December

Insider UK

Postal workers take further day of strike action

Unionised Royal Mail staff have walked out today and will do so again on Sunday

Daily Record

Series of strike action looms in Perth and Kinross in the run up to Christmas and New Year

Rail, postal and teaching staff members are staging walkouts with one local MSP urging a resolution from managements to the pay and conditions disputes

Chronicle Live

December strikes - dates of industrial action planned by nurses, train unions and Border Force

Train unions, RMT, Eurostar staff, nurses, Royal Mail staff, teachers, airport baggage handlers, driving examiners, bus drivers and border force staff will all go on strike in December

Evening Standard

The Standard View: Talks, not threats, are the way out of strike chaos

The waves of strikes keep coming, with Border Force staff now joining rail workers, nurses, ambulance workers, Royal Mail employees and others in walkouts over pay and conditions.

Daily Mirror

Amazon CRASHES as Christmas shoppers worried about Royal Mail delays flood site

Several people have complained about an error message on the Amazon website today. They said the online retailer doesn't allow them to buy the items they selected in their basket

Evening Standard

First class post no more — even the Victorians did it better

It was, I suppose, too much to hope that a parcel sent first class last Monday for a birthday on Wednesday would actually arrive on time. But no. The Royal Mail delivered…on the Friday. And this was to that far-off exotic destination of Hay-on-Wye. The idea of first-class post —…

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