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Former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson will be in Bangor on Monday to promote his latest publication, a biography of Harold Wilson

Alan Johnson on his love of writing, the Beatles, and Northern Ireland

National union leaders and local politicians pictured at a previous meeting held last month in bid to save 300 Northern Ireland jobs at BT Enniskillen

CWU launch SOS campaign in bid to save 300 NI jobs at BT Enniskillen

Virgin Media O2 will cut up to 2,000 jobs

Virgin Media O2 to cut more than a tenth of UK workforce

A Royal Mail van (Photo by Graeme Robertson/Getty Images)

Royal Mail and Communication Workers Union reach provisional agreement

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Breaking Royal Mail and Communication Workers Union reach agreement

Royal Mail warns that further strikes by workers could impact jobs.

'Change cannot continue to be delayed', say Royal Mail amid further strikes

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 1st December 2022. Postal workers pictured at the Toome Street sorting office where they are taking part in the continuing 48 hour Royal Mail UK wide strike. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Double-digit pay rises not part of the solution to strikes suggests Number 10

Royal Mail postal workers on strike outside the Belfast delivery office in Tomb Street, Belfast. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Royal Mail strikes are hindering some businesses in NI and benefitting others

Communication Workers Union (CWU) on a picket line

Postal workers 'holding Christmas to ransom' says Royal Mail

The deadline to guarantee Christmas delivery is closing in

Christmas 2022: final delivery dates for parcels including Royal Mail

Belfast shoppers

NI retailers hoping 'family atmosphere' will attract Black Friday customers

Erin Massey (centre) with striking workers at Telehouse, Belfast on Monday

999 call handlers among 1,600 on strike today in NI in BT and Openreach dispute

BT staff have been striking on selected days since the end of July

BT and Openreach workers stage latest walk-out in pay dispute

Postal workers, Openreach engineers and call centre staff listening to speeches at a mass rally outside Brighton Delivery Office during Communication Workers Union strike action. Picture date: Thursday October 20, 2022.

NI posties, engineers and call handlers stage biggest strike so far this year

The ongoing Royal Mail strikes will see postal service disruptions on days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday as well as early December impacting early Christmas shopping.

Christmas strikes threat after Royal Mail announce job cuts

Royal Mail workers at Tomb Street in Belfast hold the first of 19 strikes in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said 115,000 members across the UK would walk out in a 24-hour strike on Thursday, starting at 04:00 BST.
General Secretary Dave Ward said workers faced the "biggest ever assault" on jobs, terms and conditions "in the history of Royal Mail".
Royal Mail said further strikes would "weaken" its financial position.

Royal Mail announce plans to axe around 6,000 jobs amid fresh strikes
Royal Mail will consult on up to 6,000 redundancies as the delivery giant blamed industrial action for mammoth financial losses.
By Henry Saker-Clark, PA Deputy Business Editor

Postal workers from Mallusk sorting office in Newtownabbey in one of nineteen planned strikes in a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions, on Thursday 13 October.

Royal mail strike 'closes every postal office in Northern Ireland'

Royal Mail

Advice for consumers issued ahead of further Royal Mail strike action in NI

Copyright © Kevin Cooper Photoline NUJ: ICTU's Owen Reidy addressing the Stormont launch of the Workers Demand Better campaign

Trade unions to take cost-of-living campaign to NI town halls as strikes go on

Staff at the 999 Call Handling centre in Portadown, which deals with emergency calls from across Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom are on strike today over pay. This centre dealt with calls during the Grenfell fire and Manchester bombings.

999 call handlers set to go on strike again in Northern Ireland on Monday

BT employees including emergency call handlers take part in a strike in Co. Armagh. The workers in Co Armagh have joined hundreds of BT/Openreach colleagues at picket lines in protest against a pay offer from management slammed as an effective "pay cut". Picture date: Thursday October 6, 2022. PA Photo.

BT pledges to attempt to protect 999 services amid strike action

999 call operators strike today - how emergency calls will be affected

North East Ambulance Service

999 call handlers has been described as “reckless” by their employers

John Devlin 29/07/2022. GLASGOW. BT workers on the picket line in Glasgow. CWU members in Northern Ireland and across the UK, including 999 call handlers, are to take part in further strike action tomorrow

999 call handlers to take part in strike

A general view of a Royal Mail postbox

Royal Mail to strike in run up to Christmas

A general view of a Royal Mail postbox

Royal Mail workers to stage another 19 strikes

Some of the hundreds of CWU workers who gathered at Belfast City Hall in a rally highlighting their strike action over pay

Cost-of-living crisis: Royal Mail and BT workers rally in Belfast city centre
Postal and telecoms workers have gathered in Belfast city centre to demand better pay amid the cost-of-living crisis.
By The Newsroom

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 3rd May 2022

Belfast City Council union members hold a picket at Ormeau Recycling centre Belfast, as part of their on-going strike action over pay.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Staff at Housing Executive and Post Office strike over pay

Royal Mail

First of four days of strikes by postal workers

Strike action is likely in the middle of next month unless a Royal Mail pay dispute is settled

Postal workers set to go on strike across Northern Ireland next month

This is what you need to know about the scheme from the Post Office (Photo: Shutterstock)

All 114 Post Office branches affected by strikes in July over pay row

BT faces the threat of its first national strike in over 30 years as workers are set to vote on industrial action in a row over jobs (Photo: Shutterstock)

BT staff could strike across the UK for the first time in more than 30 years - w...

The Christmas stamps go on sale today (5 Nov) (Photo: Royal Mail)

Royal Mail unveils its Christmas stamp designs for 2019 - here's when you can bu...

The strike was backed by a massive 97 per cent of members of the Communication Workers Union (Photo: Getty Images)

Christmas post disruption is expected as Royal Mail staff vote for strike action

(left to right) Christy McQuillan, former SIPTU Divisional Organiser, Debbie Coyle, senior trade union officer, Mick Halpenny, former Senior Official, SIPTU, and Ruairi Creaney, Group Spokesperson and trade union official, at the launch event of Trade Unionists for a New and United Ireland (TU4UI) at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Unionist workers’ voices must be heard, say union members campaigning for united...

Royal Mail boss Moya Greene

Royal Mail boss joins easyJet board early on McCall move

The vote follows extensive talks

Royal Mail workers to vote on pension reform plans

Pre-tax profits rose 25% to Â£335 million in the year to March 26, with revenue rising 1% to Â£9.78 billion.

Royal Mail posts rising profits but warns of future concerns

Competition from rival firms has eaten into Royal Mails market share

Royal Mail profits fall 33% to Â£267 million

Workers are to vote on industrial action over redundancies

Fujitsu workers in strike vote over local job losses

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