The Royal Mail is to seek an injunction on Thursday to try to stop a planned 48-hour strike by postal workers in a dispute over pensions, pay and jobs.
Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are set to walk out from October 19 after voting massively in favour of industrial action in a long-running row.
Royal Mail wrote to the CWU, invoking a "legally-binding external mediation process", saying any industrial action would be unlawful.
Postal workers will stage a protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London before the start of the case.
If the strike goes ahead, it would be the first national walkout since Royal Mail was privatised four years ago.!
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