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Royal Mail workers have voted overwhelmingly to continue with a campaign of industrial action in the ongoing bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.

Posties in the region are to be balloted over more strikes.

Royal Mail workers have confirmed two days of strike action before Christmas sparking more postal chaos fears.

Scots are being urged to get their Christmas cards and parcels sent off early this year, with the first national deadline falling on Monday December 12 amid ongoing strike action.

Thousands of Scottish postal workers are taking a further day of strike action today after talks between union representatives and Royal Mail reached a standstill. Around 11,000 members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) are embroiled in an increasingly bitter dispute over pay and working conditions with the postal service, with little sign of resolve.

Postal workers have accused Royal Mail bosses of "gross mismanagement", as talks aimed at resolving a national dispute continue and strikes in the Christmas build-up look set to go ahead.

Postal workers in Perth and Kinross are set to stage two 48-hour strikes around the busiest shopping days of the year as a long-running row over pay, jobs and conditions continues.

Posties have cancelled three days of strike action that were due to begin this week.

Workers at BT and Openreach are staging strike action today as up to 38,000 people walkout amid an ongoing pay dispute.

Postal workers across the country will go on strike this Thursday over an ongoing dispute regarding pay and conditions.

Posties are set to walk out on strike at least 19 more times over a pay deal which fails to recognise the cost-of-living crisis.

Royal Mail has announced workers will stage 19 days of strike action over the next two months. In an ongoing deteriorating dispute over pay and conditions, the Communication Workers Union announced that the action in October and November will be a mixture of single days and rolling action across Royal Mail Group’s network.

Royal Mail workers are to stage a further 19 strikes in the next two months in a deteriorating dispute over pay and conditions.

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Royal Mail workers have walked out on strike for a second day as part of a a bitter dispute over pay, with further industrial action planned. Members of the Communication Workers Union mounted picket lines outside Royal Mail offices across the country on Wednesday.

West Lothian BT and Openreach staff staged fresh strike action today and will continue tomorrow, joining thousands of colleagues from around the country as part of an ongoing pay dispute .

No letters will be delivered in Dumfries and Galloway on Friday as posties go on strike.

Postal workers will walk out to call for a 'dignified, proper pay rise' in what is being described as the summer's biggest strike so far. As many as 115,000 Royal Mail Group workers who are members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are expected to take part in industrial action tomorrow (August 26).

Royal Mail workers are due to go on strikes throughout August and September over disputes relating to pay.

Royal Mail workers in Dumfries and Galloway are set to stage four days of strikes as they battle for better pay.

Royal Mail deliveries will be halted for four days later this month and at the beginning of September as 115,000 postal workers will go on strike for a “dignified, proper pay rise”.