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Royal Mail Agrees CWU Deal to End Saturday Second-Class Deliveries
The deal includes a 4.75% pay rise, new 37-hour contracts for starters and higher weekly hours for about 6,000 part-time workers.
- Royal Mail reached an agreement with the Communications Workers Union to end second-class letter deliveries on Saturdays across the United Kingdom by December.
- Regulator Ofcom approved these plans last year, authorizing a pilot across 35 delivery offices to address persistent failures in meeting delivery targets.
- The deal includes a 4.75% pay rise for staff and a 3% salary increase for legacy contracts, while allowing around 6,000 part-time postal workers to increase their weekly hours.
- Operations will initially extend to 240 delivery offices before full implementation across the 1,200-strong network, which Alistair Cochrane, Royal Mail chief executive, said will "pave the way for Universal Service reform."
- The CWU previously told MPs the service had become "chaotic," though Royal Mail owner Daniel Kretinsky insisted there was no "management decision" to prioritize parcels over letters.
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