CWU T&FS Bulletin – Santander: Returning to work 3rd July 2020 TO ALL SANTANDER MEMBERS Dear Colleague We want to update all CWU members on the outcome of meetings that have taken place with the Industrial Relations Team and Senior Leaders in key business areas in Santander UK on vulnerable/shielded colleagues, and colleagues impacted by […]
Posted: 3rd July 2020
You will be aware via different communication strands of the business and the CWU, that we have agreed a Joint Statement which represents the most significant and positive first step in nearly two years to resolve our dispute. We are acutely aware that this is a first step and that there is a huge amount […]
Posted: 2nd July 2020
Mounting job security fears across BT Group have been further exacerbated following the announcement by Group Business Services (GBS) of radical site rationalisation proposals. At present GBS – which includes Contract Delivery Services, Group Customer Billing, Group Business Assurance and Process Excellence & Automation – employs just under 500 team member grade employees spread across […]
Posted: 2nd July 2020
Group Business Services which includes Contract Delivery Services, Group Customer Billing, Group Business Assurance and Process Excellence & Automation has announced its key sites for the future. GBS intends to move to six key sites by March 2024 with some other specialist sites. About 40 existing GBS sites including Crawley, Reading and Sevenoaks are not […]
Posted: 1st July 2020
Our DGSP Terry Pullinger publicly challenged Royal Mail to focus on building and growing the business going forward this morning, as he expressed regret at the news of 2,000 management job cuts within the company. Speaking to Ian King on Sky News, Terry explained that management grades in the company are represented by the Unite […]
Posted: 30th June 2020
Andy Furey has repeated his appeal for members and branches to write to their MPs urging them to sign EDM 593 demanding a full, judge-led Inquiry into the Horizon scandal. As of Monday, the EDM had 71 signatures from across all the main political parties. The renewed call from the union follows the rejection by […]
Posted: 30th June 2020
A groundbreaking move by Santander to provide additional paid maternity leave to female employees whose babies are born prematurely is being held up by the CWU as an example of best practice that other employers would do well to follow.The industry-leading enhancement to the Bank’s maternity leave offering – which was announced to staff on […]
Posted: 25th June 2020
It is the policy of the CWU, developed through the Retired Members Committee the Retired Members Conference and CWU General Conference to support and campaign for the retention of what is called the Triple Lock on the state pension. The Triple Lock is the mechanism that guarantees the state pension will not lose its value […]
Posted: 25th June 2020
‘No-one safe from compulsory redundancy’ as Openreach attacks desk based roles, warns CWU The latest manifestation of the belligerent new management approach sweeping across BT Group has prompted CWU warnings of a looming bloodbath of desk-based members in Openreach. Hot on the heels of compulsory redundancies in Enterprise, a site rationalisation programme in Technology that […]
Posted: 25th June 2020
Unprecedented threats to job security and hard won terms and conditions across BT Group must be met with a steely and united show of resistance, branches representing members across the company have agreed. With BT poised to embark on the widest-ranging transformation programme in its history – and the union already grappling with a growing […]
Posted: 19th June 2020