Scots are set to be with out mail for 4 days after Royal Mail staff voted for strike motion later this month.
The Communication Staff Union (CWU) says providers will probably be disrupted because of the commercial motion, set to happen on August 26 and 31 in addition to September 8 and 9 in a dispute over pay.
Deliveries and collections will probably be "shut down" throughout Scotland within the throughout the 4 days of actions, the union warned.
Staff have been provided a 5.5 per cent rise, however the CWU says the rise displays a 2 per cent pay improve, an additional 1.5 per cent in alternate for a change in phrases and situations in addition to a £500 bonus.
Scottish regional secretary of the CWU, Craig Anderson informed BBC's Good Morning Scotland on Wednesday that negotiations had damaged down.
He stated: "We're taking this motion as a result of we have been given no different possibility. The negotiations began in February relating to a pay rise for the employees inside Royal Mail and the negotiations have damaged down. They've imposed a 2 per cent pay award with out settlement.
"They provided one other 1.5 per cent based mostly on signing away phrases and situations, and an additional £500 as a bonus for having targets that they knew weren't achievable. So there was by no means a 5.5 per cent pay provide placed on the desk."
Anderson referred to as for Royal Mail to "sit again around the desk" and have a look at the place members are at relating to the cost-of-living disaster.
He added: "A good provide from our perspective can be for them they sit again around the desk with us and truly have a look at the place or what comes out in the meanwhile with a cost-of-living disaster, the place the corporate's been with the income that they've made, and truly begin negotiating on a share pay elevate that displays that."
CWU is amongst a number of unions taking strike motion this summer season in calls for for elevated pay gives for staff in gentle of the rising value of residing.
The union additionally has an ongoing pay dispute with BT. Anderson stated it could be troublesome to come back to a determine as a result of uncertainty surrounding inflation with the latest determine sitting at 9.4 per cent.
"The problem we've in the meanwhile is we do not know the place inflation will probably be tomorrow by no means thoughts the place will probably be in six months' time.
"Our members do not wish to go on strike however we have been given no different alternative. We're at gridlock in the meanwhile and as I say we would be fairly glad to take a seat again around the desk to debate a pay provide."
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