All the strikes to hit before Christmas with disruption across road, rail, Royal Mail and NHS

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All the strikes to hit before Christmas with disruption across road, rail, Royal Mail and NHS 🚆📪 theipaper has compiled the definitive guide to the strikes taking place or planned across industries in the next month ⬇️

have been organised by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union , Unite and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association .More than 40,000 RMT rail workers will walk out over 48 hours on 13 and 14 December, and 16 and 17 December, hitting Network Rail and 14 train operators.

This will affect Avanti West Coast, c2c, Cross Country, East Midlands Railway, some Network Rail staff, Southeastern, South Western Railway, TransPennine Express and West Midlands Trains. Unite members will strike on six days in December and three in January. Railway cleaners across the country in the RMT union will strike on 22, 23 and 31 December.Members of the Communication Workers Union will strike on 9, 11, 14, 15, 23 and 24 December in a dispute over pay and Royal Mail’s modernisation plans, which could lead to 6,000 redundancies and parcels being delivered on Sundays.revealed the huge scale of the postal backlog in leaked photographs taken at Royal Mail sorting offices.

Mark Serwotka, general secretary for PCS, said: “We know our members’ action could inconvenience travellers who plan to visit their relatives over the festive period, but our members have been placed in this situation by a government that won’t listen to its own workforce. The first road strikes will take place on 16 and 17 December in the North West and North East plus Yorkshire.

The Eurostar will also be affected by walk outs, with RMT members working as security guards set to strike on 16, 18, 22 and 23 December after refusing a below-inflation pay offer.Teachers in Scotland will walk out on 7 and 8 December, dependent on the area they are working in, in a strike over pay.

 

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