BT Group, the UK telecoms giant, is facing a national strike over pay by 40,000 frontline staff across BT and its subsidiaries, Openreach and EE. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) will begin balloting from June 15. BT announced its decision to impose a pay award for this year of between …
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Royal Mail has said it will need to raise its prices and cut costs due to rising inflation and weak economic growth. In its full-year results for the 52-week period ended March 2022, the postal operator achieved revenue of £12.71bn, up 0.6% on the £12.64bn it achieved a year …
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Royal Mail Group (RMG), the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union have confirmed plans for a new collective pension scheme following a successful consultation process, with the scheme to be launched by the end of 2022 or early 2023. The positive outcome to the consultation, which was launched …
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UNITE vowed to fight Royal Mail’s plans to axe 700 jobs today as the threat of strike action looms large. The announcement, affecting managerial positions, came after Communication Workers Union (CWU) members unanimously approved a strike ballot over Post Office pay freezes on Monday. Unite said that its members were being made the scapegoat for bosses’ failure …
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Home | The Socialist 19 January 2022 | Join the Socialist Party Subscribe | Donate | Audio | PDF | ebook Royal Mail workers, photo Socialist Party (Click to enlarge) CWU member A number of Royal Mail delivery offices have taken unofficial industrial action since the New Year, all of …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1162/33571 Home | The Socialist 12 January 2022 | Join the Socialist Party Subscribe | Donate | Audio | PDF | ebook A Royal Mail depot, photo JB (Click to enlarge) Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) members in the Royal Mail delivery office in Invergordon, north of …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1161/33516 Home | The Socialist 6 January 2022 | Join the Socialist Party Subscribe | Donate | Audio | PDF | ebook Royal Mail managers intimidation post privatisation CWU, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge) As we go to press, Communication Workers Union (CWU) members in …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1153/33227 From The Socialist newspaper, 27 October 2021 Photo: Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge) Former Royal Mail worker Despite the promise of benefiting delivery workers’ conditions, the rollout of the ‘Pathway to Change Agreement’ between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) is proving to …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1152/33208 From The Socialist newspaper, 20 October 2021 Llanelli picket line. Photo: Swansea Trades Council (Click to enlarge) Gareth Bromhall, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party Postal deliveries in Llanelli ground to a halt on 13 October when workers at Llanelli Delivery Office walked out to …
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S ir Keir Starmer has faced union demands to stick with Jeremy Corbyn-era policies to nationalise key industries. The Labour leader should not make “timid tweaks” to the system and instead aim for “deep and transformative change”, according to a motion moved at the party’s conference in Brighton The Communication …
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