Empty collection vans outside the Royal Mail depot at Copperas Hill, Liverpool _320
UNION representatives had to step in yesterday to call a halt to a strike by 400 engineers at Liverpool’s beleaguered sorting office.
The engineers mounted a picket line early yesterday morning and Liverpool’s postal workers belonging to the same union Communication Workers Union (CWU) refused to cross the line.
Initially, the walk-out was due to last all day as a protest against unagreed changes to their working contracts.
The action, however, was not linked to the proposed closure of the Copperas Hill site and relocation of its work to Warrington.
The controversial move to Warrington leaves 600 jobs in the balance.
Mark Walsh, representing the postal workers said: “The picket line was removed at 12 o’clock.
“We had to put pressure on some people.
“We wanted to distance ourselves from this strike and had no idea they were going to target Copperas Hill.
