Royal Mail has announced its successful imposition of “the biggest revision ever in the history of this business” delivering a barely concealed tribute to Communication Workers Union (CWU) officials for “working together” to make the company competitive with Amazon. Royal Mail’s statement explodes the lying claims of Dave Ward and …
Read More »Postal workers speak out against Communication Workers Union’s partnership with Royal Mail over punishing workloads: “The union has well and truly sold its members out”
UK postal workers have written in to outline their crippling workloads and Royal Mail’s trashing of its statutory obligation to deliver six days a week. Increased walks and impossible targets are being enforced by management intimidation and use of overtime to clear back logs, forcing postal workers into a longer …
Read More »Royal Mail workers speak: “Disgrace of a company and union leaders should hang their heads in shame and resign”
Postal workers have continued to write-in from across the UK, exposing punishing revisions to terms and conditions being imposed by Royal Mail with the complicity of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) leadership. Postal workers are demanding action against CWU leaders Dave Ward and Andy Furey for pulling the ballot of …
Read More »Oppose CWU’s surrender to Royal Mail! Reinstate all victimised reps and postal workers!
Dave Ward and the national postal executive of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have blocked strike action at Craigavon delivery office in Northern Ireland after two reps were sacked there in February. Postal workers from Northern Ireland contacted the World Socialist Web Site last week reporting that their reps were …
Read More »Postal worker explains reason for Royal Mail Glasgow G1-5 walkout, breaking news blackout by Communication Workers Union
In response to the appeal made by the Postal Workers Rank-and File-Committee, a postal worker has explained the reasons for the walkout at Royal Mail’s G1-5 delivery office in Glasgow’s Baird Street on May 19 for several days. In the face of a news blackout by the Communication Workers Union …
Read More »CWU silent on unofficial strike and witch-hunt at Glasgow G1-5 Royal Mail delivery office
Do you have any information about the walkout in Glasgow? Help break through the company-union censorship about the brutal revisions and bullying being enforced. Information can be submitted on the form at the bottom of the page and will be anonymised to protect against victimisation. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) …
Read More »CWU announces “agreement” with Royal Mail on revisions: A backroom manoeuvre to ram through a sell-out deal
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) statement issued Thursday morning after two days of talks with Royal Mail claims to have reached an agreement over a review of “failed revisions”. The statement provided no details to the membership about what “actions” the CWU has agreed during its latest closed-door session with …
Read More »CWU meets with Royal Mail over ballot hiatus
Representatives from the CWU have held two meetings with Royal Mail management this week, but there’s still no further news on the impasse between the two parties. The CWU suspended its ballot on the proposed Business Recovery, Transformation and Growth Agreement at the end of last month, citing a …
Read More »At latest Zoom meeting: Parcelforce, mail centre, delivery and international postal workers discuss way forward in Royal Mail dispute
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee held its third meeting Sunday on its call, “Reject the Agreement, Renew the Strikes, Remove Ward and Furey.” Speakers addressed the Communication Workers Union (CWU)’s second postponement of the ballot on its sellout agreement with Royal Mail to prevent a crushing NO vote. The discussion …
Read More »Royal Mail: A hedge fund that delivers parcels
It is thirteen years since pensions-fund expert John Ralfe described Royal Mail as a hedge fund that delivers letters. That was before privatisation and was Ralfe’s warning about Royal Mail’s secret decision to invest £5.13 billion of workers’ pension funds into the futures market—a high-stakes gamble that risked financial ruin for …
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