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Thu 10 Oct 2009UK postal workers to strike over modernisation plans
MORE THAN 120,000 Royal Mail staff are to go on strike throughout the United Kingdom today and tomorrow, in a major escalation of a battle over modernisation of the troubled State-owned postal company.
Last night, the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) accused the British government and senior Royal Mail management of colluding to prevent negotiations, which lasted for 30 hours this week, from succeeding.
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