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The World Socialist Web Site has received further write-ins from postal workers around the UK speaking out against the ramped-up exploitation being enforced through cost cutting revisions agreed between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Royal Mail. Mounting anger against these sweatshop conditions is fuelling intense opposition to the CWU’s …

The following resolution was unanimously adopted by a meeting of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee on Sunday May 14. The vote followed a wide-ranging discussion among postal workers in attendance from across the UK, from delivery, processing, and Parcelforce. A report on the meeting will be published in the coming …

MORE changes are needed at the top of Royal Mail, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said today after under-fire chief executive Simon Thompson finally confirmed rumours that he plans to step down. The former banker, who was accused of misleading MPs earlier this year when he denied that bosses were intrusively …

Royal Mail delivery workers have explained to WSWS why they are attending this Sunday’s Zoom meeting (May 14 at 7pm) called by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee. The meeting will discuss “A Fighting Programme for Royal Mail Workers”. Postal workers can register for Sunday’s meeting here. London “The CWU has …

Posed in the present fight against the Communication Workers Union’s pro-company agreement with Royal Mail Group (RMG) is a political reckoning with the union bureaucracy by the rank-and-file. At the start of last summer, after postal workers delivered massive strike mandates to fight Royal Mail’s attacks, the World Socialist Web …

The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK) is holding a meeting next Sunday, May 14 at 7pm to discuss a fighting programme for Royal Mail workers to defeat the brutal dictates of Royal Mail Group and its stooges in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) bureaucracy. [Photo: WSWS] CWU General Secretary Dave …

A Royal Mail worker [Photo by Maureen Barlin / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] A member of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) has issued an appeal to Delivery workers on why they should reject the Communication Workers Union’s (CWU) pro-company agreement with Royal Mail. A founding member of the committee, he …

The CWU has laid out the timetable for the ballot on the Business Recovery, Transformation and Growth Agreement the union reached with Royal Mail. Ballot papers will be dispatched to members on 17 May, with the ballot closing and the announcement of the result set for 7 June.  A …

The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee’s call to reject the rotten agreement between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Royal Mail received a welcome response at sorting and delivery offices this past week. Hundreds of copies of the committee’s resolution were distributed as leaflets in Sheffield, Manchester, Bradford and London, encouraging …

After five days of non-stop promotion of their sell-out deal with Royal Mail, CWU General Secretary Dave Ward and his deputy Andy Furey announced on Wednesday a postal ballot of members commencing May 17 and closing June 7. Ward, Furey and the CWU’s Postal Executive are fully aware that such …