Royal Mail postal workers fighting for a “better pay deal” have begun striking in Tapton Hill, Sheffield.

This comes as Royal Mail workers nationwide begin a new wave of strikes in the run-up to Christmas after a long dispute with management over pay and conditions.

Members of the union are set to strike again on Sunday and on 14, 15, 23 and 24 December.

The dispute began this summer when Royal Mail rejected the workers’ request of a pay rise to match inflation.

Royal Mail argued that it is losing £1m a day and said it may need to cut up to 10,000 jobs by August.

Ben, a representative for The Communications Workers Union (CMU), said to Sheffield Wire: “Really we are fighting for the maintenance of our conditions and a better pay deal than what is being offered. We want the protection of our current working conditions.

“We’re open to modernisation and change and anything that the company needs to do, but like most forms of austerity, it’s a euphemism for finding ways of profiting.”

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