In a three-sentence statement released May 2, the Communications Workers Union (CWU) Postal Executive announced it had reached an agreement with Royal Mail for members in Fleet, the company’s maintenance division. Fleet employs around 1,000 vehicle technicians at a network of 110 workshops across the UK. The statement read: “BREAKING: …
Read More »Interest in rank-and-file fightback at Royal Mail: Belfast, London, West Yorkshire
Campaigns have been mounted at Royal Mail delivery offices and mail centres this week, distributing the statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee: “Oppose Royal Mail’s Assault on the USO! Defeat CWU’s Collusion!” —Royal Mail’s submission to Ofcom states that 7,000-9,000 delivery routes will be axed and thousands of jobs …
Read More »The People App: Big Brother at Royal Mail
Royal Mail postal workers will recall during our bitter 2022-23 industrial dispute the transparently disingenuous performance of then CEO Simon Thompson in front of the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Select Committee. When questioned about the technology that posties carry with them, Thompson was by turns …
Read More »CWU Conference 2024 Royal Mail faces cleaner strikes amid fears for Real Living Wage commitments
CLEANERS have threatened to take industrial action if Royal Mail’s facilities management arm drops the Real Living Wage. Communication Workers Union (CWU) members said they “will resist by all means possible” should Royal Mail Property and Facilities Solutions (RMPFS) abandon the voluntary commitment. Delegates approved the approach at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth today. The …
Read More »Attend UK Postal Workers Rank-and File meeting Sunday: “They want Royal Mail on a par with Evri and Amazon”
Hundreds of copies of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) statement “Oppose Royal Mail’s Assault on the USO! Defeat CWU’s Collusion!” have been distributed at Royal Mail delivery offices in Bradford, Keighley, Sheffield, Barnsley, Leicester, Glasgow and Manchester. The appeal to attend the PWRFC’s Zoom meeting this Sunday, April 28, …
Read More »CWU Conference 2024 Review free Royal Mail redeliveries as USO no longer viable, CWU delegates hear
FREE Royal Mail redeliveries should be reviewed after the company’s actions have left its six-day delivery service financially unviable, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) conference heard today. Deputy general secretary Martin Walsh told delegates in Bournemouth that the union has submitted its rejection of a three- or four-day letter delivery service to regulator Ofcom, which is …
Read More »CWU Conference 2024 Royal Mail urged to introduce free redirection service to women’s refuges
ROYAL MAIL has been urged to waive its postal redirection service fees to women’s refuges. Communication Workers Union (CWU) delegates unanimously backed the move at the union’s conference in Bournemouth today. South Yorkshire delegate Louise James told delegates the voluntary sector should not be relied on to cover the redirection fees for …
Read More »CWU Conference 2024 CWU conference news in brief: April 23, 2024
WELLBEING: Royal Mail must update its dementia policy as the cost-of-living crisis fuels a record number of economically active older workers, CWU delegates have said. A motion passed at the union’s conference in Bournemouth today warned that the abolition of the default retirement age in 2011 combined with rising pension ages are …
Read More »CWU Conference 2024 Posties are being treated in an ‘awful’ way by ‘faceless’ HR who now ‘run the company’, say CWU delegates
POSTAL workers are being treated in an awful way by “faceless HR staff who now run the company,” Communication Workers Union (CWU) delegates have said. An emergency motion warning of an “out of control and unaccountable” fifth column within Royal Mail was passed unanimously at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth today. Plymouth and East …
Read More »Royal Mail’s planned cuts to mail service part of global offensive against postal and logistics workers
Royal Mail has announced plans to end six-day-a-week mail deliveries. This is part of a worldwide offensive by post and logistic companies to slash thousands of jobs, spearheading a cost-cutting and profit-driven restructuring. The stampede by Royal Mail to ditch the Universal Service Obligation—a legal requirement meant to safeguard mail …
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