The Communications Workers' Union has voted overwhelmingly to reject An Post's proposed restructuring plan.

Postal services could grind to a halt next Wednesday due to a planned one-day stoppage by members of the Communications Workers' Union.

Paul O'Brien

The country's 10,000 postal workers are to consider whether to accept a pay rise offer of 5.5% over four years.

OPERATING losses at An Post nearly doubled last year, despite company assurances last January that it would make a €1 million profit.

Con Scanlon is to resign from his position as general secretary of the Communications Workers' Union, but has told the Irish Independent that he was not pressurised into leaving the post and that it was entirely his own decision.

The dispute at An Post looks set to escalate over the coming days following the Labour Relations Commission’s failure to resolve the differences between the sides.

An Post last night suspended 64 staff at the Dublin Mail Centre over their apparent failure to implement changes to sorting methods.

THE prospect of a postal strike receded last night after a public appeal by the Communications Workers' Union (CWU) to An Post management "to reengage with the union immediately in relation to all outstanding issues".

SEMI-STATE bosses received bonuses averaging between €16,000 and €35,000 each on top of significant salary increases despite falling profits and thousands of job losses, an Irish Examiner survey reveals.

Welfare services throughout Ireland have been severely disrupted due to unofficial industrial action by counter staff at post offices.