Agreement includes a 10% salary increase and a one-off lump sum of £500 for all CWU-grade employees
Royal Mail has agreed to a pay deal with the postal workers’ union to end a long-running and bitter dispute that led to the first national strikes since its privatisation a decade ago.
The company and the Communication Workers Union, which represents about 115,000 postal workers, said they had reached a deal, following 18 strike dates last year including in the run-up to Christmas. They reached an agreement in principle last weekend after 11 months of negotiations in the dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
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