Post strikes off: Christmas deliveries guaranteed

06 November 2009

CHRISTMAS card deliveries look assured after post unions called off a series of national strikes due to start today and involving around 120,000 workers.

Industrial action was called off at the end of talks between the Communications Workers Union and Royal Mail with the TUC acting as referee.

TUC's General Secretary Brendan Barber said an agreement had been struck to allow for a period of calm, free from industrial action to enable negotiations over the next few months towards a long term agreement.

The dispute, which has seen millions of letters being held up in sorting depots and delays in delivery, is over the Royal Mail's drive for modernisation.