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Workplace and TU campaigns / Postal workers
1 June 2011
All out on 30 June!: Over 250,000 civil service union PCS members began voting on 25 May in a ballot for national strike action...
23 May 2011
London postal workers vote 'Yes' for strike action
Postal workers in London have voted by four to one (79%) in favour of strike action against plans to shut three mail centres and one delivery office
19 January 2011
Cameron 'thanks' postal workers by axing their jobs and pensions
Two days after MPs voted through the Postal Services Bill, postal workers received Royal Mail's employee newspaper, the Courier, carrying a letter from the prime minister on page three thanking us for our "excellent work" in ensuring that Christmas letters, cards and parcels were delivered, writes A postal worker.
The CWU protest February 2009 against Post Office privatisation, photo Paul Mattsson
26 May 2010
DELEGATES TO the Communication Workers Union (CWU) conference have voted unanimously to fight the government's privatisation plans for the Royal Mail service, with a "broad-based public campaign", writes Gary Clark, Assistant Branch Secretary, Scotland No.2 CWU.
Paul Couchman, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate for Spelthorne
21 April 2010
Spelthorne: "The trade union candidate guy"
AS THE Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition Candidate for Spelthorne in Surrey, I delivered our 43,800 election leaflets to the Royal Mail last week, writes Paul Couchman.
14 April 2010
Postal workers call for 'no' vote on deal
Communication Workers Union (CWU) members in Royal Mail are currently being balloted on whether or not to accept the proposals made in the document 'Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond'...
10 March 2010
CWU to put Royal Mail deal to ballot of members
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced that it has reached a deal with Royal Mail over pay and working conditions but the issue of pensions remains outstanding...
20 January 2010
A Letter from your Postman by Roy Mayall: THIS EXCELLENT short book gives an insight into the current attacks on Royal Mail workers from the viewpoint of an 'ordinary postie'. It is not a political polemic or a campaign resource, writes Reviewed by Greg Maughan.
5 December 2009
No privatisation, fight the big business agenda: AFTER MARTIN Stanley, the industry regulator's recent vicious attacks on postal workers, it is easy to see why Royal Mail management felt confident to provoke further strike action after the 24-hour official strike at Watford, a London postal worker writes.
25 November 2009
Postal dispute: Bosses still on the attack
The London divisional committee of the postal workers' union, CWU, have unanimously voted to call on the CWU's national postal executive to reinstate the national strike, writes Bill Mullins.
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