Postal workers have today (Tuesday) overwhelmingly rejected Royal Mail’s pension changes in a CWU consultative ballot of 140,000 members.

Dave Ward, deputy general secretary, said: “The result of this ballot clearly demonstrates that Royal Mail’s pension consultation was a sham.“We’re now calling on Royal Mail to stop acting in undue haste and to discuss with the CWU how to solve the pension problem facing the company. After the last year of unrest Royal Mail needs to take the workforce along with them in this major change to postal workers’ terms and conditions.“With such overwhelming opposition to their plans, if Royal Mail can’t find an acceptable solution with the CWU, industrial action will be inevitable.”The CWU ballot result follows Royal Mail managers’ rejection of the pension changes two weeks ago.

 

With Royal Mail managers represented by Unite, the two unions are discussing a joint approach to industrial action, should Royal Mail refuse to enter into meaningful discussions.

 

 

• 92 per cent of respondents voted to reject Royal Mail’s pension changes