Union gets postal workers' pay back

Postal workers who had their pay docked after refusing to work during an anthrax scare have had their wages reimbursed following action by their union. Members of the CWU communication workers' union at a sorting depot in Edinburgh refused to return to work after a suspect package was discovered in October 2001. Royal Mail docked their wages. Kevin Shaw, CWU assistant secretary for health and safety, said a union threat to take the company to a tribunal was enough to make it see sense.