Postal workers in Oxford today voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action as their anger mounts over increased workloads and later delivery times.
This morning, post men and women from Oxford city centre, East Oxford and Headington met at the Cowley Workers' Club, in Between Towns Road, Cowley, for a meeting organised by the Communication Workers' Union (CWU).
Their unanimous vote means more than 200 workers could go on strike in the city as soon as August.
Workers will decide whether to walk-out within the next three to four weeks.
The meeting was chaired by Bob Cullen, area processing representative for the CWU, who told the Oxford Mail: "Hopefully management will sit down and negotiate matters. Postal workers are working extremely hard at the moment and generally seem to get a kickback from the public when in actual fact it is Royal Mail abandoning the public and abandoning Oxfordshire.
"It is closing mail centres and closing post offices. Service is deteriorating rapidly."
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