Strategy & Tactics
CWU – Organise the rank and file
Royal Mail is trying to break the union. Postal workers have to defend their jobs by whatever means necessary.
Trade Unions
CWU: “Royal Mail have declared industrial war on this union”
Update: The CWU has announced a ballot for action between 3-17 March ROYAL MAIL bosses promised that if workers in the CWU postal union “delivered Christmas” without the planned strike, they would engage with negotiations in the New Year. But it was a con. On the first day of negotiations Read more…
Trade Unions
Royal Mail Wins a Battle, but Postal Workers Can Win the War
Today the High Court granted Royal Mail an injunction to stop postal workers striking. This is an attack on the entire trade union movement. At this crossroads, an unofficial strike with the support of the CWU and the entire Labour and trade union movement points the way to victory.
Trade Unions
How postal workers can win
The CWU leaders have been combative in words, agitating for postal workers to stand strong, but their practical response of monitoring subgroups and possible legal challenges won’t stop Royal Mail. The Postal Executive is not deciding on action till 13 November, five days after mediation ends– why the delay? And Read more…
Trade Unions
Royal Mail blocks talks after historic strike vote
Bosses’ dirty tricks show rank and file organisation is key to winning
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Destroying Royal Mail: the politics and economics of privatisation
A socialist analysis of the roots of the current CWU dispute Royal Mail’s attack on its workforce and the CWU postal union flows directly from its privatisation five years ago, and not just the changing postal market as postal bosses and politicians claim. While letter traffic is certainly in decline,[1] Read more…
Trade Unions
Postal workers declare war on Royal Mail bosses
Company being restructured to destroy the public service and jobs
UK
CWU:Vote yes to defend our industry and jobs!
Royal Mail bosses want to divide the company into bite-sized chunks that will be easier to digest
UK
Royal Mail offensive forces CWU union to call strike ballot
Postal workers need to prepare for “the fight of our lives”, writes a CWU rep
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Royal Mail bins union agreement
As the union prepares for a new battle, activists need to develop the members’ control of the dispute needed to win
UK
CWU and postal bosses cut a deal which workers should reject
By a CWU rep After three months of negotiations, CWU leaders are recommending members vote to accept the deal, claiming it ticks all the boxes in the union’s ‘Four Pillars’ campaign – pensions, legal protections, 35 hour working week, and shift and workload changes. The sweetener is a pay rise Read more…
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Royal Mail wins strike ban injunction
By A CWU Rep ROYAL MAIL bosses using the courts to get our strike declared “unlawful” and force us into “mediation” is a dishonest delaying tactic designed to break the momentum of our massive 89 per cent vote for strike action. Their cheek is unbelievable. They blanked the union through Read more…
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Royal Mail prepares for showdown with CWU
By A CWU Postal Rep ON 5 SEPTEMBER, the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leadership announced a strike ballot, after months of talks with Royal Mail bosses that had gone nowhere. Negotiations were supposed to address an increasing number of attacks: The closing of the final salary pension scheme in favour Read more…
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Royal Mail piles up demands for cuts
Up to 300 postal workers in Doncaster walked out on 24 March against a worker off on stress being sacked over the phone, forcing Royal Mail to agree to an external investigation. Another wave of action has been slowly building from below since the wildcat walkout in Swindon last Read more…
Leaflets
CWU Bulletin: Vote 'No' to the deal
Leaflet to postal workers arguing that we need to reject the deal as it will leave us worse off and weaken the union
Articles
CWU: Vote No to the Deal
DOWNLOAD THE LEAFLET By a CWU Rep CWU members are being balloted on the new “Agenda for Growth” agreement (21 Jan to 4 Feb), with the union’s postal executive recommending we accept it. But postal workers should vote no, the new deal leaves us worse off and weakens the Read more…
Articles
A workers guide to the deal: the small print
By a CWU Rep 1. PAY (Section 5) The 9.06 per cent pay rise over three years, backdated to April, is only half a per cent more than was offered by Royal Mail as far back as July. Like the original offer it can still be reopened if inflation changes, Read more…
Articles
Royal Mail/CWU: “a fresh approach” to delivery issues: lose them
By a CWU DO rep It’s been widely known, since the 4 November national briefing of local officials and full-time reps, that outdoor delivery was the big sticking point in negotiations. Not surprisingly since this is the most difficult to automate, and competition is hotting up with rival TNT rolling Read more…
Articles
Royal Mail workers should reject the deal
By a CWU postal rep, December 12 2013 The CWU postal executive has recommended that members accept the agreement reached after weeks of talks by union negotiators led by Dave Ward, Deputy General Secretary Postal. Yet despite the headline-grabbing pay and conditions offer, at its heart is a blueprint Read more…
Articles
Royal Mail privatisation: the multi-billion pound swindle
By a CWU postal rep The privatisation of Royal Mail last month was not the victory for “popular capitalism” the Coalition government has crowed about. On the contrary, it was a defeat for the users and deliverers of a popular public service. But even by their own terms, it Read more…
Articles
Leeds workers sit-in against victimisation
Postal workers in Seacroft delivery office in Leeds staged a canteen sit-in this Saturday after a driver was wrongly suspended for an accident. They were joined by the workers from the York Road delivery office sited in the same building in a show of solidarity.Royal Mail managers at first refused Read more…
Articles
CWU: Postal strike hangs in the balance
Postal workers urgently need to take control of their dispute and strike to win, says a CWU rep Postal workers in the CWU union are stuck in limbo awaiting the outcome of negotiations with Royal Mail bosses. Ten days ago CWU leaders cancelled the first day of strike action scheduled Read more…
Articles
Postal Workers, watch your leaders: CWU tops aim for rotten deal
By a CWU rep Just as postal workers around the country were gearing up for their first day of strike action this coming Monday, 4 November, leaders in the CWU postal union cancelled the action, supposedly to continue talks. A 30 October joint statement with Royal Mail bosses stated that Read more…
Articles
CWU/Royal Mail: 78 per cent of postal workers vote to strike
16 October 2013 – by a CWU postal rep It was announced this afternoon that postal workers have voted four to one for a strike to defend their wages, conditions and jobs in a newly privatised Royal Mail. The postal Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced the first strike date Read more…
Articles
How the CWU leaders lost the Royal Mail
By a CWU postal rep If all the local areas currently on strike and all militants across the union were to walk out, coordinate their actions and appeal for everyone to come out, postal workers could still wreck privatisation and defend jobs and the union. CWU leaders Dave Ward and Read more…
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