Royal Mail has launched a consultation on the Royal Mail Collective Pension Plan, seeking views from CWU, Unite, employees of Royal Mail Group and employees of RM Property and Facilities Solutions Limited currently in the Royal Mail Pension Plan (RMPP). Under the proposals, those who have been with Royal Mail …
Read More »‘Real potential’ for multi-employer CDC schemes in UK
There is “real potential” for collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes to take off in the UK through master trusts, according to Willis Towers Watson (WTW) director and senior consulting actuary, Shriti Jadav. Speaking at the Trades Union Conference (TUC) Pensions Conference, Jadav commented that while CDC schemes were likely to …
Read More »It’s postal workers who are forging a new path in Royal Mail
A YEAR ago this weekend the first Covid-19 cases were announced in Britain. While there’s a temptation to ask: “Who could have seen what would happen next?” the truth is that it’s been a year in which the deep inequalities and problems in our society, that many of us have …
Read More »Royal mail management forced to make concessions
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1116/31826 From The Socialist newspaper, 13 January 2021 CWU to ballot on national agreement Gary Clark, CWU Scotland No.2 branch secretary (personal capacity) The Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal executive has unanimously agreed to propose to the membership a national agreement that, if agreed, would end …
Read More »CWU will not stand back and allow BT workers to be thrown on the scrapheap
SCOTTISH TUC 2020 convenes against the backdrop of the most difficult year many of us have ever seen, in Scotland and right across the UK. However, it has been the working class who have stepped up and endured the most of these challenges — continuing to tend to the sick …
Read More »TUC Congress 2020 It’s crunch time for the trade union movement
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 …
Read More »Three postal workers test positive at UK Royal Mail’s Medway Mail Centre
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, …
Read More »Talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union will end in job losses
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 …
Read More »Royal Mail workers in the UK face jobs massacre
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 …
Read More »Union calls off UK Royal Mail strike citing national interest during coronavirus pandemic
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 …
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