POSTAL workers in Notts are to strike again.

Heavy goods drivers based at East Midlands Airport were due to go on strike from 4am today until 4am tomorrow as part of national strike action.

This will be repeated next Wednesday.

It has also been revealed there are plans for strikes at the Lower Parliament Street office for next Friday, affecting deliveries in the NG3 postcode area, after workers voted on Tuesday in favour of a strike.

The strikes are part of a national dispute about changes in the Post Office as it adapts to new demands because of the impact of the internet and online shopping.

Simon Edmonds, branch secretary for the Nottingham and District Communication Workers' Union (CWU), said he couldn't confirm the Lower Parliament Street strike at this stage, but said that more industrial action was planned for Notts.

He said: "It's pointless them trying to get a national agreement on modernisation.

"We are trying to get Royal Mail round the table. We have got no protection and people are changing jobs. It's slash and burn savings."

A Royal Mail spokesman said they were aware of the strike by network drivers at East Midlands airport and that this would affect mail getting through their network. It would not have an impact on the air operation or on local deliveries.

He said they were not aware of planned action taking place on September 4.

He said: "Having met the union more than 50 times in recent months, it is increasingly clear that the CWU refuses to believe that mail volumes are declining, despite the clear evidence of this in the UK and in every other postal market around the world.

"We again condemn the CWU for striking locally over much-needed modernisation and change which has already been successfully implemented by our people in the majority of offices around the UK and is working well."

Staff at the Lower Parliament Street branch are also to take part in a work-to-rule overtime ban from next Saturday,where they will only carry out normal tasks and do their regular hours.

The work-to-rule industrial action will be ongoing from next Saturday.

A total of 46 workers at the Huntington Street sorting office took part in a strike two weeks ago.

claire.carter@nottinghameveningpost.co.uk