POSTIES in Birmingham are balloting to walk out on strike after claims that a fellow worker with chronic anxiety and depression has been unfairly sacked.
Royal Mail workers at the Shirley delivery office are balloting after the worker was fired in February.
The reason given for his dismissal was his regular absence from the workplace.
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On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD
Royal Mail’s job quality has plummeted, with gruelling hours, two-tier pay, intense surveillance, and poor work-life balance for postal workers — but our union is fighting back, writes CWU branch secretary JOHN CARSON
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR