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To build support for a rejection of the sellout deal and to organise a centre of resistance to the Communication Workers Union’s collusion with Royal Mail, the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee will hold its next online meeting this Sunday, April 23, at 7pm. Register here to attend the meeting. [Photo: …

Thursday night’s online mass meeting called by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) to “update” members on the Royal Mail dispute was an insult to tens of thousands of postal workers in Britain engaged in a determined eight-month fight to defend their livelihoods. CWU bureaucrats claimed a deal could be reached …

The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and the World Socialist Web Site will be hosting an online meeting of rank-and-file postal workers next Monday, March 27, at 7pm to discuss taking forward the fight against attacks on living standards and working conditions, and the victimisation of their colleagues. Register for the …

The World Socialist Web Site continues to receive a steady stream of correspondence from postal workers over the back-breaking increases in workloads demanded by Royal Mail. They are also speaking out against the Communication Workers Union (CWU) enforcing the cost cutting exercise of revisions by the company and the betrayal …

The World Socialist Web Site has received correspondence from postal workers across the UK in response to its March 14 article, “Sell-out being prepared in closed-door talks between Royal Mail and CWU.” The strike at Royal Mail by 115,000 postal workers, the first nationwide action since privatisation a decade ago, …

The seven-month struggle of 115,000 postal workers against restructuring by Royal Mail is being sabotaged by the Communication Workers Union (CWU). After 18 days of strike action since last August against an imposed sub-inflation pay award of 2 percent, demands for the tearing up terms and conditions and plans for …

On Jersey Island, the postman always knocks twice on Christopher Brough’s door. Every Monday and Friday, a Jersey Post letter carrier arrives at the 200-year-old row-house cottage for a quick chat. Brough, by dint of age (he’s 76), a touch of hearing loss and history of a major stroke (“fully …

Royal Mail worker Leila delivers mail in Balham, London, Jan. 12, 2021. | Kirsty O’Connor / PA via AP Jon Tait is a former sports journalist and postal worker, now working for the U.K.’s largest public sector trade union. In this op-ed, he discusses the dispute between postal workers and …

Royal Mail and Post Office workers took national strike action today, covering a combined workforce of up to 120,000. There were large turn outs on picket lines at delivery offices, mail centres and Parcelforce depots across the UK. Striking Royal Mail workers in Bournemouth, August 26, 2022 [Photo: WSWS] The …

ROYAL Mail workers in Belfast were attacked by dogs 50 times last year – the second-highest figure in the UK. Only Sheffield, with 51 reported attacks on postal workers, fared worse. Postmen and postwomen across the UK suffered 1,673 dog attacks between 2021 and 2022, new figures from the postal …