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Johnson warns over postal strike

Martin Rosenbaum | 10:57 UK time, Thursday, 15 October 2009

The postal workers' union is warning that there's going to be a national strike unless the Royal Mail management comes up with new proposals.

Letter from Alan Johnson

But the letter above was written in 1996, when its author Alan Johnson was leader of the Communication Workers' Union and not, as he is now, home secretary in a Labour cabinet whose minister responsible for the matter has described such a strike as a "lunatic proposition".

Mr Johnson's letter was released to the BBC in the past following a freedom of information request.

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