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Are you a postal worker? Register here to attend the first public meeting of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File committee (Canada) on November 10 at 7 p.m. Eastern time. On Sunday, November 10 at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) is hosting its first online public …

Meghan Markle’s ex-bodyguard has said he feels ‘sorry’ for the former actress as marrying into the royal family was ‘stressful’ for her because she struggled to go from a B-list celebrity to the ‘most famous family in the world’. Steve Davies was first introduced to Meghan in 2018, when he was …

The World Socialist Web Site recently interviewed a member of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) from Montreal about his experiences in the workplace at Canada Post. The PWRFC was recently established by postal workers with the aim of the rank and file seizing control of their contract struggle from …

Princess Anne has been recovering in hospital with concussion after it was thought she was struck on the head by a horse. The King’s sister, 73, was walking around her Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire on Sunday evening when the incident occurred. But, because of the injuries she sustained, she appears …

The following statement was discussed and adopted at a recent meeting of Canada Post workers. It follows extensive discussions with several dozen postal workers who have contacted the World Socialist Web Site over recent months, including an April meeting at which a resolution calling for the establishment of a rank-and-file …

Open this photo in gallery: A vintage car passes by as Canadian warship HMCS Margaret Brooke enters Havana’s bay, in Cuba, on June 14. The Canadian government has come under criticism for making a friendly three-day naval stop in Cuba.Stringer/Reuters Photos posted on social media by Canada’s embassy in Cuba …

Some 50,000 postal workers at Canada Post are currently working without a contract. Around 42,000 members of the urban postal operators (UPO) bargaining unit and 8,000 rural and suburban mail carriers (RSMC) are being blocked from waging a genuine struggle against Canada Post’s sweeping concessions demands by the Canadian Union …

Princess Anne has demonstrated her importance to a monarchy hit by illness by undertaking a third of all royal engagements in the first four months of this year. The Princess Royal has been the lynchpin holding it all together while the King and the Princess of Wales have been undergoing …

Comments from postal workers exposing the unbearable working conditions at Canada Post and the complicity of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) with management in enforcing them have continued to pour in to the World Socialist Web Site. Contract talks are ongoing for some 50,000 workers between CUPW and …

Would he or wouldn’t he? It wasn’t just the crowd waiting patiently outside St George’s Chapel this morning who were wondering if the King might exchange a few words with the public for the first time since his cancer diagnosis. Every right-minded royalist will have been having similar thoughts. In …