CWU: not just a partner for Royal Mail and BT!
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At this year’s Communication Workers Union (CWU) conference (22-26 April), the controversial issue of the CWU’s role in “workfare” schemes in Royal Mail (RM) was swept under the carpet.
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Daily Mail defends indefensible workfare
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On 27 February, the Daily Mail issued a front page rallying call to British business to save the government’s workfare programme.
CWU demonstration at Labour Party conference
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Date:
22 September, 2008 - 13:30
Location:
Assemble Castlefield (Rice St, off Liverpool Rd), Manchester
Description:
http://www.cwu.org/events.asp?step=3&Eid=458
London CWU rally against privatisation of Royal Mail
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Date:
7 September, 2005 - 11:00
Location:
tba
Score draw in London postal dispute
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London postal workers have scored a partial, but perhaps ultimately pyrrhic, victory in their battles against closures and job losses at three Royal Mail workplaces in the capital (the mail centres at Twelvetrees in Bow and the Nine Elms centre in south London and the delivery centre at Rathbone Place).
London postal strikes in limbo
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Planned strikes by London postal workers are in limbo as of 13 June, with the postal workers’ union CWU still closeted in talks with Royal Mail bosses.
Build solidarity with London postal workers
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An emergency motion passed unanimously at the Communication Workers Union conference called on sorting offices all over the country to refuse to handle mail from three London mail centres threatened with closure. This is likely to cause unofficial walkouts as union members get suspended for refusing to carry out an instruction from management.
Postal workers go into battle
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On 23 May the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) announced that 79% of voting postal workers in London had backed strike action against the closure of three London mail centres.
CWU conference
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This year’s CWU Conference comes as the pressure in both the postal and telecoms sectors is set to increase.
"Forward to the past" is no answer for Labour
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“Family, faith and flag” is being promoted as Labour’s new big idea.