Close The Gap Events Tour November Dates Announced

The purpose of these events is to raise awareness at site level among the branches and membership.  This will involve a series of protests outside BT sites where Manpower and Manpower and BT members can sign the petition to show solidarity for the campaign. Dates are detailed in this poster: You can download a PDF […]

Posted: 1st January 2017

Post Office Attacks Ability Of Union Reps To Represent You!

Writing to all Branches with Post Office CWU members, Andy Fury Assistant Secretary is warning that the Post Office managemenbt are renaging on national agreements and attacking the Union’s representative structure by serving six months’ notice on the CEIRF – Collective Engagement and Industrial Relations Framework Agreement 2015. Here is the salient point in LTB575/17: […]

Posted: 1st January 2017

Merseyside MP Proposes New Law To Ban ‘Tyres That Kill’

Maria Eagle Labour MP for Halewood and Garston rose today in the House of Commons to launch a proposed change in the law, aimed at changing the law so that old aged tyres cannot be used on public vehicles, thereby ensuring that such a preventable accident can never take lives again. This followed her promise […]

Posted: 1st January 2017

History Of Women’s Fight For Justice Continues To Be Wiped Out

Save Sarah Chapman’s Grave, A Leader Of The 1888 Matchwomen’s Strike & Trade Union Heroine In all aspects of life, the part played by women; continues to be sidelined, ignored, denied and eradicated not only from contemporary media sources but most of all from the pages of history. One of the most effective ways of […]

Posted: 1st January 2017

Royal Mail’s Court Order Was A Cynical Manoeuvre

Bulletin No 22 On Thursday 26th October 2017 the CWU’s negotiating team attended the first meeting of the mediation process. The appointed external Mediatior is Lynette Harris, an experienced ACAS and UN Mediator based at Nottingham Business School. As part of the mediation process the CWU has produced a comprehensive information pack for the Mediator […]

Posted: 1st January 2017

Four Pillars Update – External Mediation

Following the court case which supported the Royal Mail’s case stopping industrial action by CWU Royal Mail employees, the Union has today advised its postal workers Branches that an external Mediator has now been appointed from the jointly agreed panel of six, established when the Agenda for Growth Agreement was signed. The CWU has already […]

Posted: 1st January 2017

Closing The Gap And Supporting The Four Pillars

Sunday 15th October in the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool saw a huge turn out of Greater Mersey Amal Branch members, from both of the Union’s constituencies – Telecoms & Financial Services and Postal – to hear the Union’s DGS(P) Terry Pullinger bringing the Branch up-to-date on the Postal member’s campaign; The Four Pillars. With posters […]

Posted: 1st January 2017

Hunt Plans To Bar Patients Without Prior Permission From Attending A&E

Website Pulse Today is reporting on further NHS insanity being created by Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt! He wants to use the already discredited NHS 111 call centres telephone advisory service, to triage patients before allowing them to attend A&E – unless they arrive in an Ambulance first! So, you are suddenly without […]

Posted: 1st January 2017

Royal Mail Must Listen To CWUMembers Four Pillars Bulletin No 21

PAY AND FOUR PILLARS AGREEMENT – NATIONAL BALLOT RESULT The result of the Ballot, as certified by the independent Scrutineer:     Number of Votes      % of Valid Vote  YES        56,177           90.1%  NO          6,167             9.9%  A resounding […]

Posted: 1st January 2017