Post workers tackle strike backlog

The strike was the second in a week by Royal Mail staff in Oxfordshire

Postal workers are dealing with a huge backlog of mail as they return after a four-day strike.

More than a million letters and parcels piled up in depots when hundreds of Royal Mail staff went on strike in Oxford on Monday.

Officials at the Communication Workers Union (CWU) say members at the centres in Cowley, East Oxford, Oxpens and Kidlington were angry over the suspension of three of their colleagues.

But Royal Mail denied anyone had been suspended, saying some members of staff had pay docked for refusing to carry out an instruction from a manager.

The strike followed an earlier walk out by 400 workers last weekend, who refused to clock-in at Cowley and Headington.

Workers were worried over a national pay deal and job cuts, but CWU leaders persuaded them to return after an emergency meeting on Sunday.