UK postal strikes to go ahead after talks stall

LONDON Oct 28 (Reuters) - Talks between Britain's postal union and Royal Mail management have stalled, the union said on Wednesday, and a fresh wave of postal strikes will go ahead this week.

The three-day strike will start from Thursday after talks between the executive of the Communication Workers Union and Royal Mail at the TUC failed to find a solution to a dispute that has already created a massive backlog of letters and parcels.

The union said it had put forward a proposal that would have allowed a period of calm and allowed further talks aimed at reaching agreement on pay, jobs and modernisation plans.

"At this point of time, we have not had confirmation as to whether our proposal is acceptable and therefore the strikes previously announced for the next few days will take place," Dave Ward, CWU general secretary, said in a statement.

(Reporting by Avril Ormsby; Editing by Adrian Croft)