CWU Conference 2024 CWU conference news in brief: April 23, 2024

WELLBEING: Royal Mail must update its dementia policy as the cost-of-living crisis fuels a record number of economically active older workers, CWU delegates have said. A motion passed at the union’s conference in Bournemouth today warned that the abolition of the default retirement age in 2011 combined with rising pension ages are …

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CWU Conference 2024 Posties are being treated in an ‘awful’ way by ‘faceless’ HR who now ‘run the company’, say CWU delegates

POSTAL workers are being treated in an awful way by “faceless HR staff who now run the company,” Communication Workers Union (CWU) delegates have said. An emergency motion warning of an “out of control and unaccountable” fifth column within Royal Mail was passed unanimously at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth today. Plymouth and East …

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PRESS DIGEST-British Business – April 23

April 23 (Reuters) – The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Times – Keith Williams, the chairman of Royal Mail’s parent company, International Distributions Services, has urged Ofcom to speed …

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Base Resources, Made Tech, Tungsten West

With tensions in the Middle East easing – at least for now – and a renewed flurry of M&A activity, equity markets started the week on the front foot. London’s AIM All Share briefly traded above 750 for the first time in a week before reaching the bell up four …

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