UK Royal Mail Strike Looms

Posted on May 11, 2017 by mailomg in Memo 117, Uncategorized // 0 Comments

The Royal Mail may experience its first-ever national strike after telling employees it will run out of money to fund the defined pension program in 2018. Earlier Royal Mail said it would begin to phase out the pension program … (click to read more)

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