A big ‘thank you’ to our reps helping vulnerable members return to work Postal, Post Office (PO) July 3 2020 Following government announcements last month on vulnerable workers’ policy, the CWU and Post Office have been working together to ensure that our members in these categories are fully supported as they return to their duties, […]
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CWU T&FS Bulletin – Santander: Returning to work 3rd July 2020 TO ALL SANTANDER MEMBERS Dear Colleague We want to update all CWU members on the outcome of meetings that have taken place with the Industrial Relations Team and Senior Leaders in key business areas in Santander UK on vulnerable/shielded colleagues, and colleagues impacted by […]
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You will be aware via different communication strands of the business and the CWU, that we have agreed a Joint Statement which represents the most significant and positive first step in nearly two years to resolve our dispute. We are acutely aware that this is a first step and that there is a huge amount […]
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Mounting job security fears across BT Group have been further exacerbated following the announcement by Group Business Services (GBS) of radical site rationalisation proposals. At present GBS – which includes Contract Delivery Services, Group Customer Billing, Group Business Assurance and Process Excellence & Automation – employs just under 500 team member grade employees spread across […]
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Group Business Services which includes Contract Delivery Services, Group Customer Billing, Group Business Assurance and Process Excellence & Automation has announced its key sites for the future. GBS intends to move to six key sites by March 2024 with some other specialist sites. About 40 existing GBS sites including Crawley, Reading and Sevenoaks are not […]
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Our DGSP Terry Pullinger publicly challenged Royal Mail to focus on building and growing the business going forward this morning, as he expressed regret at the news of 2,000 management job cuts within the company. Speaking to Ian King on Sky News, Terry explained that management grades in the company are represented by the Unite […]
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Andy Furey has repeated his appeal for members and branches to write to their MPs urging them to sign EDM 593 demanding a full, judge-led Inquiry into the Horizon scandal. As of Monday, the EDM had 71 signatures from across all the main political parties. The renewed call from the union follows the rejection by […]
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A groundbreaking move by Santander to provide additional paid maternity leave to female employees whose babies are born prematurely is being held up by the CWU as an example of best practice that other employers would do well to follow.The industry-leading enhancement to the Bank’s maternity leave offering – which was announced to staff on […]
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It is the policy of the CWU, developed through the Retired Members Committee the Retired Members Conference and CWU General Conference to support and campaign for the retention of what is called the Triple Lock on the state pension. The Triple Lock is the mechanism that guarantees the state pension will not lose its value […]
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‘No-one safe from compulsory redundancy’ as Openreach attacks desk based roles, warns CWU The latest manifestation of the belligerent new management approach sweeping across BT Group has prompted CWU warnings of a looming bloodbath of desk-based members in Openreach. Hot on the heels of compulsory redundancies in Enterprise, a site rationalisation programme in Technology that […]
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