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
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
CWU Celebrates Royal Mail Group Sign-Up To The TUC’s “Dying To Work” Voluntary Charter This website has featured previously the issue of discriminatory practices by employers of terminally ill employees, being sacked despite the fact they are still able to function at their work, albeit perhaps with some work-time or work-place adaptions. The TUC has […]
Posted: 1st January 2017
The North West Regional Committee meeting today (Friday 28th July) held a very packed meeting where they were given a superb presentation by Paul Collins of the Liverpool based Total Eclipse Of The Sun campaign. Paul detailed the background to how the campaign got off the ground – a couple of Liverpool FC supporters having […]
Posted: 1st January 2017
If you want to know all there is to know about UK’s laws pertaining to Dogs and dangerous dogs in particular, a new authoritative DVD has just been released, Dave Joyce has reminded all in a letter to CWU branches this month. Cooper & Co Solicitors (“Dog Law”) with the UK’s top Dangerous Dogs Law […]
Posted: 1st January 2017
Whilst this headline may well be the opinion of those victims of the Grenfell Tower incident adding to the view that the victims were actually murdered as a result of mal-practice aimed at reducing costs of renovating the tower block, at the very least there stands a major conflict of interest with regard to the […]
Posted: 1st January 2017
This weekend 29th and 30th July sees the gathering of thousands of people in one of the North West’s greatest cities – Liverpool – for two days of events celebrating Lesbians, Gays, Trans-gender and Bi-sexual (LGBT) people from all walks of life; in music, theatre, fashion, and glamour! Both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, despite […]
Posted: 1st January 2017
Your Mums, Sisters, Wives And Daughter’s Are Being Victimised By Austerity Austerity is a choice of the Tory Government and indeed of the Liberal Party who formed a coalition with the Tories in 2010 and started this whole attack on working people, pitting generation against generation, gender against gender, able bodied against disabled, employed against […]
Posted: 1st January 2017
A stark warning has been issued to BT by the CWU stating it is resolute in its determination to defend members’ pensions in the wake of the company’s unwelcome but widely anticipated decision to trigger a review of the BT Pension Scheme (BTPS). Tens of thousands of BTPS members across the country have were formally […]
Posted: 1st January 2017
The Tory government have been defeated by the Trade Union movement and specifically by UNISON in the Supreme Court of Justice in London today, as the imposition of Employment Tribunal Fees by the Tory/Liberal coalition government; was judged to be unfair and illegal because it prevents workers from seeking justice against bad employers and their […]
Posted: 1st January 2017