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Postal workers suspend strike action 

Reuters - Thursday, November 5 06:11 pm

LONDON (Reuters) - Postal workers said on Thursday they would suspend strike action until at least after Christmas under an interim agreement reached between unions and state-owned Royal Mail. More »

  • Post strikes off after deal agreed

    Post strikes off after deal agreed

    ITN - Thursday, November 5 06:00 pm

    Strikes planned by postal workers in a row over jobs, pay and modernisation have been called off hours before walkouts were due to start. More »

  • A post box, showing that the next mail collection will not occur until next week, is seen in London October 29, 2009. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

    Postal workers suspend strike action

    Reuters - Thursday, November 5 05:52 pm

    LONDON (Reuters) - Postal workers suspended strike action in the run-up to Christmas under an interim agreement reached on Thursday between unions and Royal Mail. More »

  • A post box is seen in London October 29, 2009. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

    Postal union goes to court over casual workers 

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 3 11:25 am

    LONDON (Reuters) - The postal workers' union said it will mount a High Court challenge on Friday to Royal Mail's hiring of 15,000 extra casual workers to counter nationwide strike action. More »

  • Post talks resume as union threatens legal action

    Post talks resume as union threatens legal action

    ITN - Tuesday, November 3 09:22 am

    Talks to try to break the deadlocked postal dispute are due to resume as the Royal Mail faces legal action over recruiting agency staff. More »

  • House prices down 4.2 percent 

    Reuters - Monday, November 2 04:30 am

    LONDON (Reuters) - House prices fell at their slowest annual rate since June 2008 in October, dropping 4.2 percent, due to an ongoing lack of housing for sale after the credit crunch, property data company Hometrack said on Monday. More »

  • A woman looks at properties for sale in the window of an estate agent in central London October 30, 2009. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

    House prices down 4.2 percent in Oct

    Reuters - Monday, November 2 12:03 am

    LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices fell at their slowest annual rate since June 2008 in October, dropping 4.2 percent, due to an ongoing lack of housing for sale after the credit crunch, property data company Hometrack said on Monday. More »

  • Postal strikes come to an end

    Postal strikes come to an end

    ITN - Sunday, November 1 06:13 am

    The latest series of postal strikes has ended but millions of items of mail are caught up in a huge backlog. More »

  • A postal worker pickets outside a sorting office in London October 29, 2009. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

    Postal workers strike again after talks fail 

    Reuters - Saturday, October 31 09:55 am

    LONDON (Reuters) - About 77,000 postal workers will go on strike on Saturday in the final part of a second wave of action after talks failed to end an escalating dispute over pay, jobs and modernisation. More »

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