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IT’S crunch time for the government. The temporary nature of the measures taken in response to the coronavirus pandemic are now coming up against the reality – that this is a public health crisis that is going to be with us for a long time and is going to create …

  Three postal workers test positive at UK Royal Mail’s Medway Mail Centre By Paul Lee 14 September 2020 Postal workers at Medway Mail Centre are still concerned after three postal workers tested positive for coronavirus, despite Royal Mail’s claim to have cleaned the delivery office. Only opened in 2012, …

  Talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union will end in job losses By a socialist postal worker 31 July 2020 The following comment article was submitted to the WSWS by a British postal worker. Talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) mark a new …

  Royal Mail workers in the UK face jobs massacre By Paul Lee 30 June 2020 Royal Mail has announced that 2,000 managers will be made redundant shortly. The restructuring that was promised after the previous CEO Rico Back was sacked has now begun. The cull in management is in …

  Union calls off UK Royal Mail strike citing national interest during coronavirus pandemic By Thomas Scripps 19 March 2020 For the second time in four months, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has defied a massive strike vote of postal workers in Britain, this time with the promise to draft …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1077/30422 From The Socialist newspaper, 11 March 2020 Royal Mail workers in the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) supporting a ‘yes’ vote in a reballot for strike action, Leicester Meridian, photo Steve Score   (Click to enlarge) Socialist Party members in CWU Almost 110,000 postal workers are currently …

  Struggles break out in Inverness, Bristol ahead of UK Royal Mail national strike ballot By E.P. Milligan 4 March 2020 Some 200 Royal Mail workers in Inverness, Scotland are preparing to strike over company mistreatment of disabled employees. In violation of Royal Mail’s own guidelines as well as the …

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1074/30294 From The Socialist newspaper, 19 February 2020 Vote Yes for strikes, photo Paul Mattsson   (Click to enlarge) The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is reballoting members in Royal Mail over management bullying and the company reneging on the ‘Four Pillars’ agreement – which established employment, standard …

THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) backed Rebecca Long Bailey today in the Labour leadership contest. The Star understands that the 500 delegates present at a CWU forum overwhelmingly backed Ms Long Bailey for leader and Angela Rayner for deputy leader. Speaking after the meeting, CWU general secretary Dave Ward said: …

The latest headlines in your inbox A postman today told how he found a newborn boy on a doorstep in Hackney.  Edward Holton, 36, was on duty when he spotted a blanket “wrapped in a cocoon” shape outside a vicarage in Sandringham Road on Saturday. He carried on delivering post …