The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee is holding a meeting this Sunday, April 23, at 7pm to organise a fightback against the Communication Workers Union’s sellout agreement. Share the event with your colleagues and make plans to attend. You can sign up to the Committee and find out more about its …
Read More »Royal Mail unveils offer that aims to end lengthy dispute
ROYAL MAIL revealed details today of a proposed deal aimed at ending a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. The agreement reached with Communication Workers Union (CWU) negotiators includes later starting times for deliveries, regular Sunday working, a 10 per cent pay rise over three years and a one-off …
Read More »UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee issues call to reject CWU deal with Royal Mail
To build support for a rejection of the sellout deal and to organise a centre of resistance to the Communication Workers Union’s collusion with Royal Mail, the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee will hold its next online meeting this Sunday, April 23, at 7pm. Register here to attend the meeting. [Photo: …
Read More »Hopes for agreement between CWU and Royal Mail
An end could be in sight to the long-running dispute at Royal Mail. Over the weekend the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced that it had reached a “negotiators agreement” with Royal Mail Group, after nearly a year of strife between its members and the postal operator. The CWU said …
Read More »Royal Mail and CWU reach agreement on pay and conditions
COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) negotiators have reached a deal in talks with Royal Mail bosses after months of dispute. Details of Saturday’s agreement have not been made public, but the union said its postal executive will meet tomorrow and Tuesday to consider it. Should the package, brokered by conciliation service Acas, be endorsed, CWU …
Read More »Growing support for UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Send a message to rmpw.rfc@gmail.com to contact and join the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee. The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee has received growing interest and support from delivery and mail processing workers at Royal Mail. The latest write-ins are in response to the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) article providing an …
Read More »Communication Workers Union mass meeting paves way for rotten sellout
Thursday night’s online mass meeting called by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) to “update” members on the Royal Mail dispute was an insult to tens of thousands of postal workers in Britain engaged in a determined eight-month fight to defend their livelihoods. CWU bureaucrats claimed a deal could be reached …
Read More »Royal Mail: talks end with no deal
Talks between Royal Mail management and the CWU have concluded without an agreement being reached – and predictably there’s also a disagreement about the lack of an agreement. The Communication Workers Union issued an update this morning (5 April), stating that the latest talks with Royal Mail had ended …
Read More »Royal Mail talks end without agreement
TALKS aimed at resolving a long-running dispute at Royal Mail ended without agreement today. The company had been meeting Communication Workers Union (CWU) negotiators to try to reach a deal on pay, jobs and conditions. A CWU statement said: “There has been progress in several areas and the union made …
Read More »UK Royal Mail postal workers speak on their forming a rank-and-file committee
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) spoke to postal workers who took part in the April 2 online meeting hosted by the Socialist Equality Party, Those who attended included postal workers based in delivery offices and mail processing centres from around the country in London, the south, Midlands, the Eastern …
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