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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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