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Decision on mail strike today.


A DECISION on whether to press ahead with a fresh wave of postal strikes will be taken by union leaders today - just hours before the industrial action is due to start.

The postal executive of the Communication Workers Union Communication Workers Union may mean:
  • Communication Workers Union (UK)
  • Communication Workers Union (Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Communication Workers of America
 will meet to discuss any progress made during talks with the Royal Mail aimed at breaking a deadlocked row over jobs, pay and modernisation.

The two sides have been locked in negotiations for the past two days after agreeing to meet under the chairmanship of TUC TUC (in Britain and South Africa) Trades Union Congress

TUC n abbr (BRIT) (= Trades Union Congress) → federación nacional de sindicatos

TUC n abbr (Brit) (=
 general secretary Brendan Barber Brendan Barber (b. 3 April 1951, Southport, Lancashire) has been the General Secretary of Britain's Trades Union Congress (TUC) since June 2003.

He was educated at St Mary's College, Sefton and City University, where he earned a BA Hons in social sciences in 1974.
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The union's postal executive was briefed by CWU CWU Central Washington University
CWU Communication Workers Union
CWU Communication Workers' Union (South Africa)
CWU Church Women United
CWU Crittenton Women's Union (Boston, MA)
CWU Complex Work Unit
 negotiators yesterday while Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier was given details of the talks by managing director Mark Higson who is leading the management team.

Up to 120,000 CWU members staged two 24-hour walkouts last week, which delayed more than 30 million items of mail. Workers are due to strike tomorrow, Friday and Saturday
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Publication:Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date:Oct 28, 2009
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