{"id":2834,"date":"2013-12-11T14:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2016-01-19T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:55:31","slug":"landmark-deal-sees-royal-mail-workers-set-receive-9-payrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/landmark-deal-sees-royal-mail-workers-set-receive-9-payrise","title":{"rendered":"Threat Of Royal Mail Christmas Strike Averted With &#8216;Landmark Deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/4\/29\/1272538725500\/royal-mail-sorting-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/>Royal Mail workers will receive a three-year pay rise worth around 9% and legally-binding employment protections in an agreement between the company and the Communication Workers Union (CWU).\u00a0This new agreement means the threat of a Christmas strike has now been averted.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Mail&#8217;s boss Moya Greene said the deal would provide &#8220;long-term stability and certainty for Royal Mail, our employees and our customers&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;Working together we can create a strong foundation for the continued success of our business,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward has said: &#8220;The agreement breaks new ground in the UK by incorporating extensive legally binding protections for employees alongside a commitment to improve industrial stability.<br \/>\n&#8220;The legal protections for Royal Mail employees come hard on the heels of the privatisation of the company and are unprecedented in delivering the strongest protections for employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The union said it has guaranteed it will not outsource, sell or transfer any part of its business until a legal review takes place in 2019.\u00a0It also ensured any new employee joining the Royal Mail will not be on &#8220;inferior&#8221; terms and conditions which eradicates\u00a0the threat of creating a two-tier workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Ward has warned that the Royal Mail must keep to its agreements in the long-term. &#8220;Investors should be clear that this agreement commits them to growth and there will be no tolerance to a race to the bottom on services and jobs,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Mail workers will receive a three-year pay rise worth around 9% and legally-binding employment protections in an agreement between the company and the Communication Workers Union (CWU).\u00a0This new agreement means the threat of a Christmas strike has now been averted. Royal Mail&#8217;s boss Moya Greene said the deal would provide &#8220;long-term stability and certainty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}