Workers for the Post Office, BT and Openreach are all set to stage fresh strikes in a dispute over pay, continuing the summer of industrial action by hundreds of thousands of union members.
Post Office staff will take action on 26, 27 and 30 August, in a fourth round of action, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced. BT and Openreach workers will hold a third round of strikes. The union said about 40,000 of its members will walk out on 30 and 31 August.
Around that number staged a strike at the end of last month and the start of this month in the first national telecoms strike since 1987 and the biggest ever among call centre workers. Union members working for BT and Openreach had voted in favour of industrial action in protest at a £1,500 pay rise.
The Post Office walkout will include employees in Crown offices - larger branches - and in administration and the supply chain, and the action on 26 August will coincide with strikes by Royal Mail employees. About 115,000 Royal Mail workers have previously announced strikes on 26 and 31 August, as well as on 8 and 9 September.
This story is from the August 13, 2022 edition of The Independent.
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