Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1161/33516 Home | The Socialist 6 January 2022 | Join the Socialist Party Subscribe | Donate | Audio | PDF | ebook Royal Mail managers intimidation post privatisation CWU, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge) As we go to press, Communication Workers Union (CWU) members in …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1152/33208 From The Socialist newspaper, 20 October 2021 Llanelli picket line. Photo: Swansea Trades Council (Click to enlarge) Gareth Bromhall, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party Postal deliveries in Llanelli ground to a halt on 13 October when workers at Llanelli Delivery Office walked out to …
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There is “real potential” for collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes to take off in the UK through master trusts, according to Willis Towers Watson (WTW) director and senior consulting actuary, Shriti Jadav. Speaking at the Trades Union Conference (TUC) Pensions Conference, Jadav commented that while CDC schemes were likely to …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1116/31826 From The Socialist newspaper, 13 January 2021 CWU to ballot on national agreement Gary Clark, CWU Scotland No.2 branch secretary (personal capacity) The Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal executive has unanimously agreed to propose to the membership a national agreement that, if agreed, would end …
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Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) had been locked in a dispute over a 1.8 billion pound ($2.42 billion) restructuring plan, proposed by its former chief executive officer, Rico Back. The resistance led to Back resigning in May. “This agreement marks the end of our two year dispute …
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* UK ramps up no-deal preparations as EU trade talks stall * German exports rise in July but remain below pre-crisis levels * Technology leads sectoral declines, defensives rise * French electricity giant EDF sinks as output falls Sept 8 (Reuters) – European shares fell on Tuesday on fears that …
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The notice follows Royal Mail’s proposed 6% pay increase, part of a three-year deal with the CWU last week, in a bid to appease the union following threats of another strike ballot. However, hopes for a settlement faded when CWU said last week that it could call for a strike …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1068/30088 From The Socialist newspaper, 8 January 2020 RMT and NSSN protest outside parliament against the Tory government’s threat to the right to strike. 19.12.19, photo JB (Click to enlarge) Rob Williams, Socialist Party industrial organiser The mask has slipped – almost the first act of …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1067/29968 From The Socialist newspaper, 4 December 2019 Royal Mail managers intimidation post privatisation CWU, photo Paul Mattsson, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge) The High Court has dismissed the appeal by the Communications Workers Union (CWU) against the scandalous decision to stop the postal workers …
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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1062/29786 From The Socialist newspaper, 30 October 2019 photo Rob Williams (Click to enlarge) Rob Williams, National Shop Stewards Network, chair Independent union United Voices of the World (UVW) has launched an ‘autumn of discontent’ with strikes by outsourced, low-paid, mainly migrant workers. There are strikes …
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