As much as 1,000 Royal Mail staff might take unauthorised industrial motion in a present of solidarity with placing Put up Workplace employees, it has been reported.
Put up Workplace employees at branches throughout Britain will immediately stroll out in a dispute over pensions and job safety.
Royal Mail staff might refuse to cross picket traces at strike-stricken branches to gather parcels, the Day by day Telegraph reported.
The wildcat motion would put much more stress on a postal system already beneath pressure - lower than every week earlier than Christmas.
It comes as baggage handlers, check-in employees and airline crew all plan to strike this week - doubtlessly inflicting journey chaos for a whole lot of hundreds of travellers.
Some three,000 Put up Workplace employees at branches throughout Britain will immediately stroll out in a dispute over pensions and job safety. They could possibly be joined by as much as 1,000 Royal Mail staff
Round three,000 Put up Workplace department employees will stroll out immediately, adopted by two additional strikes on December 20 and Christmas Eve.
Money handlers who ship cash to branches will strike on December 22 and 23.
As much as 300 of the Put up Workplace's largest branches – referred to as Crown places of work - can be affected as members of the Communication Employees Union protest towards the closure of branches and pension cuts.
The Put up Workplace has stated it expects its 11,000 branches to proceed to work regardless of the economic motion however a walkout by Royal Mail might trigger much more issues.
In the meantime Unite stated greater than 1,500 baggage handlers, check-in employees and different staff at 18 airports together with Gatwick and Heathrow will strike for 48 hours on December 23.
In a separate announcement, British Airways stated 2,000 cabin crew would strike on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, branding the motion 'calculated and heartless'.
In one other blow to passengers, Virgin Atlantic pilots voted to take motion which might result in the cancellation of flights. It should begin on Friday and final for every week.
In the meantime, Southern staff are set to go on strike as soon as once more following three days of commercial motion - inflicting the worst rail disruption in 20 years - previously week.
The supplier's conductors will stroll out on December 19 and 20 and from December 31 to January 2, whereas its drivers will do the identical for six days from January 9.
Roads are anticipated to be a lot busier than regular, as folks attempt to keep away from disruption on the railways and within the air.
In a press release final week, the Royal Mail stated: 'Royal Mail can be working as regular subsequent week when the CWU union says its members within the Put up Workplace will take industrial motion.
'We count on there to be no or little impression our parcels or letters operations. The Put up Workplace has confirmed as effectively that it expects its 11,000 branches to proceed working as regular. Clients who must put up at a Put up Workplace ought to use these branches.'
Britain faces a Christmas of journey chaos with an avalanche of strikes set to disrupt the nation's roads, railways and airports all through the festive interval
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