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Communication Workers Union (CWU) officials have announced that their pro-company Business Recovery, Transformation and Growth Agreement with Royal Mail has been accepted by members, in a result that thousands of postal workers have branded a betrayal. In a brief video livestream at 4.30pm this afternoon, CWU General Secretary Dave Ward …

The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) met Sunday on the eve of ballot results being announced over the sell-out deal negotiated by Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders Dave Ward and Andy Furey with Royal Mail. The national ballot closes at 12pm Tuesday. A statement produced by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File …

Do you have information to report about health and safety breaches at the new Super Hubs or other Royal Mail facilities? Please submit using the form below. Your identity will be protected. Royal Mail has flouted its basic statutory duties under Health and Safety laws at its parcels “Super Hub” …

Before a single vote has been counted on whether to accept the “Business Recovery, Transformation and Growth Agreement” between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU), the union’s postal executive is working to enforce the company’s brutal revisions to jobs, terms and conditions. In a letter to members on …

Royal Mail workers in Shropshire, England have voted for local industrial action against revisions that have hiked up workloads and led to systematic failures of the USO. But a postal worker has told the World Socialist Web Site that the Communication Workers Union CWU is stalling their action. Members of …

TRADE unionists slammed Royal Mail bosses today for focussing on “trialling drones, rather than supporting posties” during a Scottish Parliament committee hearing. Royal Mail’s director of operations development, Ricky McAulay, has come under fire for his appearance at the economy and fair work committee this week. Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) Scotland secretary …

The online meeting held Thursday evening by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) with its membership at Royal Mail was nothing more than a browbeating exercise by union leaders Dave Ward and Andy Furey, trying to force members to accept their surrender terms to end the bitter year-long dispute. It was …

A postal worker at the Craigavon delivery office (DO) in Northern Ireland has spoken to the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) about how 130 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) sought to wage a fight against imposed revisions and the suspension of their two union reps back in February. …

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced a five-week “mass engagement exercise” to ram through its pro-company “Business Recovery, Transformation and Growth Agreement” with Royal Mail. The postal ballot will run from June 22-July 11. CWU General Secretary Dave Ward and his deputy Andy Furey announced a revised ballot timetable …

An attempt by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) to smear the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on its coverage of the Royal Mail dispute and undermine its standing among postal workers has failed miserably. After the CWU Postal Executive twice suspended the ballot on its sellout deal with Royal Mail …