Revitalising CWU education as residential training returns

Union Matters, Education, Equalities March 7 2023 ‘First-class’ Leicestershire facility gets the thumbs up from leaders, learning reps and activists… The full range of courses are now available for our reps at a new facility in a small village near Loughborough and CWU News was invited up last week, …

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What strikes are coming up across the UK?

The UK is continuing to wade through a barrage of strikes across a range of industries that have continued into 2023.Nurses, teachers, civil servants, rail workers, university staff, physiotherapists, Royal Mail workers, junior doctors, and ambulance staff are striking over pay and conditions.This video breaks down when exactly the industrial …

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Glasgow posties raise £6k for community with cheeky calendar

Thanks to an initiative from Glasgow Southside Strike Solidarity, Communications Workers Union members from the Victoria Road depot produced their own Calendar Girls effort, as first reported by our sister title The Herald in November. Initially the posties had planned to use the money to bolster the CWU’s strike fund …

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Corrections and clarifications | | The Guardian

An article about the Oscars described two of Michelle Yeoh’s co-stars in Everything Everywhere All at Once as Chinese. Ke Huy Quan is Vietnamese-American and Stephanie Hsu is American, both of Chinese descent (Your quick Oscars primer, 4 March, p19). Homophone corner: “I am reaping what I sewed through hard …

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