100,000 Rush for Post Strike Jobs ; Mail Flooded . With Applications for 30,000 Placesunion Angered . By Hiring of Staff to Beat Walkout [Edition 2]

Evening Standard - London › October 19, 2009

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AT LEAST 100,000 people are expected to apply to become temporary postal workers in a jobs rush sparked by the planned mail strike.

Royal Mail has been flooded with applications after trying to recruit 30,000 workers to deal with the backlog caused by stoppages on Thursday and Friday.

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100,000 Rush for Post Strike Jobs ; Mail Flooded . With Applications for 30,000 Placesunion Angered . By Hiring of Staff to Beat Walkout [Edition 2]

The positions, paying around Pounds 5.95 an hour for a 40-hour week, are usually snapped up b...

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