The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is publishing correspondence from postal workers exposing the brutal exploitive regime being imposed by Royal Mail, with the help of the Communication Workers Union (CWU). The latest comments are from postal workers opposing the CWU’s sell-out joint agreement with Royal Mail announced April 21. …
Read More »UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee resolves to fight Communication Workers Union sell-out deal
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee held a meeting Sunday, passing a resolution pledging a campaign against the sell-out deal agreed between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Royal Mail. The meeting was attended by postal workers from all grades within the Royal Mail Group (RMG). The resolution states: Organise to …
Read More »UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee issues call to reject CWU deal with Royal Mail
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: …
Read More »Communication Workers Union mass meeting paves way for rotten sellout
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 …
Read More »How to fight back at Royal Mail—A meeting for rank-and-file workers
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 …
Read More »Postal workers condemn sweatshop conditions at Royal Mail rubber stamped by Communication Workers Union
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 …
Read More »UK postal workers describe brutal exploitation by Royal Mail and complicity of Communication Workers Union
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, …
Read More »Communication Workers Union deepens collusion with Royal Mail to prepare strike sell-out
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 …
Read More »Could Canada Post workers take on duty of checking on seniors?
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 …
Read More »Royal Mail in a race to the bottom – People’s World
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 …
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