9:26am Tuesday 9th March 2010
YORK and North Yorkshire postal workers are set to get their say on whether their union should accept a 6.9 per cent pay deal spread over three years and end the long-running Royal Mail dispute.
Officers of the Communication Workers Union and Royal Mail management announced yesterday they had reached an agreement that would also see postal workers’ working week cut.
The deal, hammered out over two months of talks, is subject to a ballot of the union’s members.
The pay dispute led to a spate of strikes and walkouts across the country last year, including in York.
The 80-page agreement includes £400 lump sum payments for workers when the agreement is ratified, with another £1,000 tied to delivery of workplace changes and other bonus payments.
As part of the agreement, the union would commit to taking part in a “transformation” of the Royal Mail.
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