Royal Mail wins a High Court injunction to prevent a potential strike by workers, which may have disrupted the postal votes on the general election in Christmas.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Last month, 100,000 Royal Mail staffs voted in a dispute between workers and management over job safety and employment terms. However, Royal Mail argued that the vote was invalid because of \u201cpotential irregularities\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n The Communication Workers Union (CWU) responded immediately after the ruling in the tweet: “Genuinely this is an utter outrage, 110, 000 workers vs the establishment\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Members of the CWU voted by 97% to back walkouts, with a turnout of nearly 76%, saying, the company had failed to comply with an employment agreement reached last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Royal Mail has denied this claim and said there was evidence that the members were under pressure to vote \u2018yes\u2019 which maximised the turnout.<\/span><\/p>\n But the CWU lawyers argued, there was no evidence of interference with the ballot. The Electoral Reform Society confirmed it was run\u00a0in full accordance of the law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The CWU had not set a strike date, denied the allegations and contested the case. Mr Justice Swift indicated that he had decided to grant the injunction at the outset of a ruling in the afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If the strike continues, it will be the first national postal strike by Royal Mail in a decade and it could have an impact on postal votes before the general election on 12 December.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The CWU must decide whether to launch a new ballot of members or to appeal against the decision.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Words: Wanchen Cao l\u00a0Reuters, Phil Noble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Royal Mail wins a High Court injunction to prevent a potential strike by workers, which may have disrupted the postal votes on the general election in Christmas.\u00a0 Last month, 100,000 Royal Mail staffs voted in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":32721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,93,134],"tags":[1332,3769,4450,5351,5938],"class_list":["post-32720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-news","category-uknews","tag-christmas","tag-london","tag-news","tag-royal-mail","tag-strikes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}