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| Royal Mail to face legal action | Royal Mail to face legal action |
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| The Royal Mail will face legal action on Friday over the recruitment of 30,000 agency staff, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has said. | The Royal Mail will face legal action on Friday over the recruitment of 30,000 agency staff, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has said. |
| The CWU said it will seek an injunction at the High Court. | The CWU said it will seek an injunction at the High Court. |
| It accuses Royal Mail of using agency workers as strike breakers, to do the work of CWU members involved in the continuing UK-wide industrial dispute. | It accuses Royal Mail of using agency workers as strike breakers, to do the work of CWU members involved in the continuing UK-wide industrial dispute. |
| Talks between the two sides to end the strikes ended without agreement on Monday and will resume on Tuesday. | Talks between the two sides to end the strikes ended without agreement on Monday and will resume on Tuesday. |
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| CWU members are due to hold their latest walkouts on Friday of this week and on Monday, 9 November. | CWU members are due to hold their latest walkouts on Friday of this week and on Monday, 9 November. |
| Unlike the previous five 24-hour strikes, which have involved members in different roles striking on different days, the two new dates will be all-out action including up to 121,000 union members on each day. | |
| The dispute is over pay and modernisation at the Royal Mail. | The dispute is over pay and modernisation at the Royal Mail. |
| Royal Mail says it is trying to modernise to compensate for letter volumes dropping by 10% every year as people switch to other forms of communication such as emails and texts. | |
| It has shed 63,000 frontline postal staff in recent years and says it needs to cut more jobs as part of continuing modernisation plans. | |
| The CWU agrees that job cuts are necessary, but disagrees over their extent, and over the future pay and working conditions of the workers that remain. | |
| Royal Mail said the number of letters delayed as a result of the latest strikes had fallen from 50 million over the weekend to 25 million. |