Royal Mail engineer and cleaners' strike averted at eleventh hour Around 1,900 employees of Romec, which supplies cleaners and engineers to Royal Mail's sorting offices, were due to strike for 24 hours from tomorrow morning over pay. Dave Ward, the deputy general secretary of the CWU, said: "We are delighted common sense has prevailed and stopped wider disruption to Royal Mail services at Christmas." The workers were planning to form picket lines outside 12 of Royal Mail's largest mail centres across the UK from 6am tomorrow. When they were balloted for industrial action, 91 per cent of staff voted to strike. Romec is a joint venture between Royal Mail and Balfour Beatty, the construction firm.