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Communication Workers Union (CWU) General Secretary Dave Ward has announced a “groundbreaking negotiators’ agreement” with billionaire Daniel Kretinsky and his private equity firm, EP Group. Ward claimed the £3.5 billion takeover of Royal Mail offers the “opportunity for a fresh start”. The Labour government announced its approval of the takeover …

The World Socialist Web Site has received emails from postal workers across Royal Mail Group in response to the article, “Communication Workers Union embraces Kretinsky’s takeover of Royal Mail.” CWU leaders Dave Ward and Martin Walsh have for months spun the private talks they have held with billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, …

Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders Dave Ward and Martin Walsh issued a statement Wednesday calling on postal workers to get behind their “engagement plan” and establish a “favourable outcome” in Royal Mail’s takeover by billionaire Daniel Kretinsky. Ward and Walsh described the £3.5 billion takeover by Kretinsky’s EP Group in …

The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee calls for a Yes vote in the ballot on political funding in the Communication Workers Union (CWU). Our call is against the campaign by CWU General Secretary Dave Ward and his cronies on the executive to promote Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party as a friend …

The World Socialist Web Site had the following conversation with a Royal Mail delivery worker in Scotland who is a member of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC). Their name has been withheld to protect against victimisation. The discussion focussed on the experience of postal workers on the ground and …

LABOUR must “robustly scrutinise the detail” of Royal Mail’s takeover offer by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, Communication Workers Union (CWU) said today. General secretary Dave Ward’s call came after it emerged the £5 billion bid will undergo a government probe, including into potential links with Russia. “The contractual obligations negotiated between the failed current …

Over the past week two issues have come to the fore in the £3.5 billion takeover bid by billionaire Daniel Kretinsky of Royal Mail and parent company International Distribution Services (IDS). First of all, Kretinsky has wasted no time in spelling out a major overhaul from day one of his …

Union officials have met with representatives of the EP Group, which is bidding to take over the postal giant The Communication Workers Union said it was increasing its plans to engage with the Government and Labour on the takeover bid ( Image: PA Wire/PA Images) Postal workers’ leaders have raised …

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) posted a video from Deputy General Secretary (Postal) Martin Walsh on its Facebook page and X account on Saturday claiming to refute “the idea the union supports a cut in the USO [Universal Service Obligation].” Walsh’s one-minute video did nothing of the sort. It served …

Mr Ward, speaking at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth, said: “It has been a roller coaster for employees in the past few years, going from being key workers during the pandemic, then involved in the most brutal industrial dispute I have ever seen, a debate about the quality of …