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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 …

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 …

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 …

The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and the World Socialist Web Site will be hosting an online meeting of rank-and-file postal workers next Monday, March 27, at 7pm to discuss taking forward the fight against attacks on living standards and working conditions, and the victimisation of their colleagues. Register for the …

The CWU has described the week ahead as “critical to the outcome” of its long-running dispute with Royal Mail, with a series of pay for change proposals aimed at stabilising the business now on the table. The union issued an update to members on Friday (17 March), after the …

ROYAL MAIL’S referral to regulators for failing to deliver letters six days a week is “vindication of why staff have lost total confidence” in the firm’s leadership, a union leader said today. Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave Ward welcomed the business, energy and industrial strategy committee’s decision to …

The World Socialist Web Site has received correspondence from postal workers across the UK in response to its March 14 article, “Sell-out being prepared in closed-door talks between Royal Mail and CWU.” The strike at Royal Mail by 115,000 postal workers, the first nationwide action since privatisation a decade ago, …

Postal workers have picked up on the undeniable stench of a sellout hanging over the closed-door talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and are up in arms. CWU General Secretary Dave Ward on Thursday March 2 stated at an online meeting with postal workers that a …

More than 110,000 postal workers at Royal Mail held several nation-wide strikes in 2022, joining a chorus of sectors in Britain — from teachers to nurses and rail workers — demanding higher pay to cope with elevated inflation. “Talks continued this weekend. Progress has been made in some areas and …

The seven-month struggle of 115,000 postal workers against restructuring by Royal Mail is being sabotaged by the Communication Workers Union (CWU). After 18 days of strike action since last August against an imposed sub-inflation pay award of 2 percent, demands for the tearing up terms and conditions and plans for …