Clean energy technology business Ceres Power said on Monday that it has inked a global long-term licence agreement for the manufacture of its proprietary solid oxide electrolyser cell technology with an original equipment manufacturer based in the Asia-Pacific region. Ceres said the agreement meant it had secured another partner with …
Read More »How the “friends” of Royal Mail workers helped the CWU inflict defeat – Part 2
Part one of this article was published August 11 The Socialist Workers Party are expert at providing tame “left-wing” criticisms of the labour and trade union bureaucracy, while serving to politically block any independent movement of the working class. The SWP’s long-established theory of the trade unions is one that …
Read More »How the “friends” of Royal Mail workers helped the CWU inflict defeat – Part 1
The following article is the first of a two-part series. One month has passed since the Communication Workers Union (CWU) led by Dave Ward and Andy Furey succeeded in pushing through their pro-company “Business Recovery, Growth and Transformation Agreement” in a ballot whose results were announced July 11. The impact …
Read More »CWU instructs reps to enforce Royal Mail’s brutal revisions: the IR Framework in action
Before a single vote has been counted on whether to accept the “Business Recovery, Transformation and Growth Agreement” between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU), the union’s postal executive is working to enforce the company’s brutal revisions to jobs, terms and conditions. In a letter to members on …
Read More »Communication Workers Union stalls “rule 13” industrial action in Shropshire against revisions
Royal Mail workers in Shropshire, England have voted for local industrial action against revisions that have hiked up workloads and led to systematic failures of the USO. But a postal worker has told the World Socialist Web Site that the Communication Workers Union CWU is stalling their action. Members of …
Read More »CWU launches “mass engagement exercise” to ram through rotten sell-out at Royal Mail
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced a five-week “mass engagement exercise” to ram through its pro-company “Business Recovery, Transformation and Growth Agreement” with Royal Mail. The postal ballot will run from June 22-July 11. CWU General Secretary Dave Ward and his deputy Andy Furey announced a revised ballot timetable …
Read More »Royal Mail workers speak: “Disgrace of a company and union leaders should hang their heads in shame and resign”
Postal workers have continued to write-in from across the UK, exposing punishing revisions to terms and conditions being imposed by Royal Mail with the complicity of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) leadership. Postal workers are demanding action against CWU leaders Dave Ward and Andy Furey for pulling the ballot of …
Read More »CWU announces “agreement” with Royal Mail on revisions: A backroom manoeuvre to ram through a sell-out deal
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) statement issued Thursday morning after two days of talks with Royal Mail claims to have reached an agreement over a review of “failed revisions”. The statement provided no details to the membership about what “actions” the CWU has agreed during its latest closed-door session with …
Read More »Postal workers speak ahead of Sunday’s rank-and-file Zoom meeting: “The union is in Royal Mail’s pocket”
The World Socialist Web Site has received further write-ins from postal workers across the UK speaking out against brutal cost-cutting revisions agreed between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Royal Mail. Mass anger towards the CWU’s surrender document with Royal Mail has forced the CWU postal executive to “postpone” balloting on the …
Read More »Royal Mail workers speak against revisions and sell-out deal: “Massive failure from CWU!!”
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) has received more write-ins over the past week from postal workers across the UK voicing opposition to the sell-out deal between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Royal Mail. A month-long ballot of 115,000 postal workers over the agreement signed by CWU leaders Dave Ward and …
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