The Continued Strike Action Threatens The Royal Mail's Christmas Holiday Season, Which Is The Mail Service's Biggest Profit Maker.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU), have announced that their members within the Royal Mail are set to conduct 19 days consecutive days of strike action back to back in October and November, as well as two more strikes set for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

The Royal Mail have threatened to fire all workers who take part in the strike, stating: "Further strikes will make us reconsider the job security of union members within our workforce".

The strike action also has the effect of potentially costing Royal Mail their lucrative Christmas Holiday profits, something desperately needed at the moment as the mail service continues to lose millions of pounds due to falling customer numbers.

The CWU's General Secretary, Dave Ward, stated in an interview with the BBC yesterday evening: "This is a significant announcement, but it is one which matches the level of anger our members feel at the way the Royal Mail has treated them.

These are the same people that have kept the country connected and returned huge profits to Royal Mail throughout both the pandemic and ongoing Cost of Living Crisis.

They're trying to casualize the nation's postal service, they want to turn it into an Uber-Style courier service akin to Hermes and Parcel2Go, in order to eliminate the postman who goes on strike due to the criminally low pay he's getting from his employer.

Royal Mail workers across the UK now face the fight of their lives to save their jobs and the service they provide to every household and business across the UK, we call everyone to stand with their local postal worker".

The Royal Mail issued a response to Ward's demands, stating: "The Royal Mail is loosing an estimated £1 Million per day and must change faster in response to changing customer demands, we operate in a competitive market and our customers now have more services to choose from.

Rather than responding to our offer of talks and renewed negotiations, the Communication Workers Union has announced more industrial action, once again taking the path of prolonging disruption over resolution.

Further militant strike action and resistance to transformation by the Communication Workers Union will only make our financial position worse, and threatens the jobs of everyone within the Royal Mail".

The government has offered to assist the Royal Mail in dealing with the militant striking workers, by having those on Universal Credit without work being sent to work in place of those on strike, an offer Royal Mail hasn't confirmed or denied taking the government up on.