Despite the rain and the cold, CWU retired members attended their NW Forum today held in the Machanics Institute in Manchester. With guest speakers, Margaret Greenwood, Labour’s shadow Work and Pensions minister and Wirral West MP, Tony Kearns CWU’s DGS and Jan Shortt General Secretary of the National Pensioner’s Convention, not to mention the couple […]
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On Saturday 12th May thousands will march for a New Deal for Workers in London. The march will assemble at Victoria Embankment between Hungerford Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge from 11am. It will move off at 12pm and march to Hyde Park. The rally will take place in Hyde Park, finishing at 4pm. The CWU have been pivotal […]
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BT Pension and Pay: Consultative Ballot Arrangements The Branch meeting on BT Pensions and BT Pay will take place tomorrow night as previosuly advised on this website. In the meantime here is the detail of the ballot arrangements issued by Deputy General Secretary (T&FS) Andy Kerr: I am writing to confirm the arrangements for the […]
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Conference Opening Speeches – Sunday 22nd April These pages bring you the best of the debates and policy making from the Union’s General Conference, being held this year at the Bournemouth International Conference Centre in, of course; Bournemouth. The wordings of the motions plus key speakers in the debates follow on subsequent pages, and will […]
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Instead of Watching The Spoon-Fed Political Dross Of Sunday TV Politics Watch This When it comes to the ingrediants listed on supermarket food labels, we should be concerned with what is IN our food as opposed to the headlined label of what is NOT in the food! The same principle applies to TV political news […]
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Is It Time For Labour To Re-Think It’s Stance On Brexit? With the media once again attacking the Labour Party on several fronts and this weeks sacking of Owen Smith MP from Labour’s front bench for stating what other’s have previously said, that the British public deserve the right to vote in a second EU […]
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Ray Ellis, part of the CWU negotiating team which concluded with Royal Mail the final version of the Four Pillars Agreemetn reports on the problems with the Royal Mail attendance procedure: Due to a surge in the number of complaints around the current Occupational Health model and approach to sickness absence the department met with […]
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It may be both Easter Sunday and April Fools Day, but our regional Chair, Dan Lewis is fooling no one! Pictured here pretending to be at work! Sorry Dan, but the old CRT type monitor is giving the game away, along with the positioning of your headset. Still, his message is clear in his Tweet […]
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Branches will recall that in February last year, without the agreement of this union, the Post Office transferred our weekly paid members to monthly pay, the majority of whom work in Supply Chain, although the impact was also felt by some Counter Clerks. As a consequence of the Executive Action, the Union instigated an Employment […]
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CWU’s National Health, Safety and Environment Officer, Dave Joyce explains in his letter to branches (LTB177/18); how Royal Mail continues it’s bad safety record, culminating in the employer paying their largest ever health and safety fine! Royal Mail pleaded guilty to Health and Safety Offences at Isleworth Crown Court on 7th December 2017, in relation […]
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