Consignia announces 15,000 job losses
News Article 25 March 2002
Post company Consignia's has announced 15,000 redundancies in a bid to halt losses running at over £1.5 million a day.
Forum Brief: Postal strike
Policy Consultation 15 March 2002
The Communication Workers Union has put its 145,000 members who work in Royal Mail on standby to take part in industrial action on Wednesday March 27.
Forum Brief: Postcomm announcement
Policy Consultation 15 March 2002
Postal services regulator Postcomm has announced it is to delay the decision allowing competition in the UK postal market to May from April as originally planned.
Forum Brief: Postal strike
Policy Consultation 6 March 2002
Union leaders and Consignia managers have edged towards an agreement over pay, sparking hopes that a national postal strike can be averted
Forum Brief: Consignia Pay
Policy Consultation 5 March 2002
Two Consignia directors have decided not to accept recommended pay rises of 10 per cent.
Will the postman ring twice?
Press Review 27 February 2002
Forum Brief: Postal deliveries
Policy Consultation 26 February 2002
The Royal Mail is to launch trials of "delivery patterns" that will lead to post arriving later and the end of second deliveries.
Union to cut party funding
Press Review 22 February 2002
Forum Brief: Consignia
Policy Consultation 18 February 2002
The chairman of Consignia has said he would like to change the company's name.
Forum Brief: Postal strike
Policy Consultation 14 February 2002
A national postal strike will take place in the first week of March unless progress has been made in a pay dispute, union leaders warned yesterday.
Forum Brief: Postal strike
Policy Consultation 12 February 2002
Leaders of Britain's 145,000 postal workers are meeting to decide whether to call a series of strikes as part of a campaign to win a five per cent pay rise.
Forum Brief: Postal Strike
Policy Consultation 8 February 2002
The threat of the first national postal strike in six years moved a step closer yesterday when Royal Mail workers voted overwhelmingly for strike action.
Forum Brief: Postal competition
Policy Consultation 31 January 2002
Private companies are to be allowed to compete with the Post Office to sort and deliver letters under radical new plans unveiled by the regulator Postcomm.
Postal strike talks today
Press Review 22 January 2002
Postal workers win concessions
Press Review 25 May 2001