From the ArcaMax Publishing, UK News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/uknews/s-574533-122315
LONDON (UPI) -- A postal workers union in Britain plans to strike for
three days to protest job cuts and partial privatization of the Royal
Mail.
The union will stage the strike despite Business Secretary Peter
Mandelson's announcement the government would hold off on selling 30
percent of the postal service, The Times of London reported Thursday.
"Our market testing has shown now is not the time to sell a minority
stake in Royal Mail," Mandelson said.
The Communication Workers Union said workers are losing jobs, but
management is failing in efforts to modernize the service, the
newspaper said.
A Royal Mail spokesman countered that claim directly.
"Customers will not understand how the union can claim to support
modernization but then announce strike action to halt existing efforts
to modernize Royal Mail in London," he said.
The three-day strike is scheduled to begin Wednesday, The Times said.