Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders Dave Ward and Andy Furey have publicly welcomed Martin Seidenberg as Group CEO of International Distribution Services, the parent company of Royal Mail. Less than two weeks after the CWU ended the year-long Royal Mail dispute, pushing through acceptance of their pro-company Business Recovery Transformation …
Read More »A postal worker forced to work in extreme heat dies in Turkey
Record high temperatures since early July are threatening the health and lives of workers, especially those forced to work in unsafe conditions. Berran Özen Kırmızıgül (42), a postal worker from the state-owned Turkish Post (PTT), was hospitalized on Monday after she collapsed due to sunstroke while delivering mail in the …
Read More »CWU betrayal at Royal Mail: Draw the lessons and organise the fightback
Share your views on this statement and the CWU’s betrayal of the year-long battle of Royal Mail workers. Submit your response in the form at the bottom of this page. Your anonymity will be protected. Dear brothers and sisters, Dave Ward, Andy Furey and the postal executive of the Communication …
Read More »CWU imposes historic betrayal of postal workers as Royal Mail agreement accepted
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 …
Read More »CWU instructs reps to enforce Royal Mail’s brutal revisions: the IR Framework in action
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 …
Read More »Communication Workers Union stalls “rule 13” industrial action in Shropshire against revisions
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 …
Read More »CWU launches “mass engagement exercise” to ram through rotten sell-out at Royal Mail
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 …
Read More »Communication Workers Union political smear of World Socialist Web Site falls flat on its face
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 …
Read More »Royal Mail thanks “our union” for biggest revisions in history: Rank-and-file must take control!
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 …
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