{"id":696590,"date":"2022-12-09T13:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=696590"},"modified":"2022-12-09T13:49:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:49:28","slug":"royal-mail-workers-begin-waves-of-christmas-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/royal-mail-workers-begin-waves-of-christmas-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail Workers Begin Waves of Christmas Strikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of postal workers at Royal Mail are going on strike over pay and conditions. Potentially causing disruption to customers festive deliveries.<\/b><\/p>\n

More than 115,000 staff walked out on Friday due to pay and more. This is during the lead up to Christmas and this could result in some people not getting their parcels on time.<\/p>\n

Members of the union are expected to continue striking on Sunday as well as on 14, 15, 23 and 24 December.<\/p>\n

So far, there is millions of letters piling up, meaning not everyone is going to get there letters, meaning not everyone will have there presents set and ready for Christmas.<\/p>\n

“It seems to me there’s not really a negotiation. It is a take it or leave it deal where they are attacking our terms and conditions.” said one employee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Thousands of postal workers at Royal Mail are going on strike over pay and conditions. Potentially causing disruption to customers festive deliveries. More than 115,000 staff walked out on Friday due to pay and more. This is during the lead up to Christmas and this could result in some people not getting their parcels on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":696592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696593,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696590\/revisions\/696593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}