Another nineteen days of strike action over pay and conditions are being held by Royal Mail workers.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said the strikes will cover Black Friday and Cyber Monday and reflect the anger workers feel about the way they are being treated.

Posties have been offered a two per cent pay increase along with changes to their employment conditions,

Strike action has been called starting on Thursday 13 October. It will vary by region, but all postal workers will be out on October 13, 20, and 25 October, and the 28 November.

Meantime 93.5 per cent of post office cleaners and maintenance staff have also voted to strike over pay and change (September 27).

"Today's result sends another loud and clear message to the so-called 'leadership' of this company that their selfish attitudes will never work," said acting CWU DGSP Andy Furey. "These members were every bit as crucial to the magnificent Royal Mail effort during the pandemic as our frontline workers – their essential cleaning, repair and maintenance work keep the delivery offices, mail centres, RDCs and VOCs safe, hygienic and in operation – and it's shameful that they've been treated so shabbily by the company since then. No wonder they're angry," he added.

According to the Communication Workers Union a very small proportion of the company's cleaners were offered an increase – 50p an hour to a group of mobile cleaners, with a cash lump-sum payment to others who received no RLW adjustment – but that still left around 90 per cent of cleaners with no annual pay rise, while engineers and admin members were offered the same 2 per cent that was imposed across Royal Mail Group.