Postal workers may strike over pay rise failures

The Communications Workers Union is considering industrial action in protest at An Post's failure to deliver wage increases due under the social partnership process.

The union's executive council is due to decide next Tuesday whether to ballot members on the possibility of engaging in strike action to secure the outstanding money.

It said 8,000 of its members had still not received cost-of-living increases due to them under the Sustaining Progress deal.

CWU spokesman Joe Guinan said the union arranged a one-day stoppage last December to highlight the situation, but there had been no progress since then.