British Telecom plc (BT) has been fined £500,000 after an engineer fell seven metres from a loft in London, breaking his back and his ankles. The Old Bailey heard how a BT engineer, David Spurgeon, was fixing a telephone fault in the roof void of a residential block of flats in Tower Hamlets, East London. […]
Posted: 1st January 2016
CWU’s deputy general secretary (telecoms) Andy Kerr has issued a strongly worded defence of the continued full integration of Openreach within BT Group today, with a hard-hitting 10-point rebuttal to the joint call for separation by the bosses of Sky, Talk Talk and Vodafone UK. In their public letter (pictured right) to the Ofcom chief […]
Posted: 1st January 2016
John Major Ex-PM Attacks Lies Of The Brexit Campaign In 15 minutes 44 seconds, the Tory’s ex-Prime Minister, Sir John Major; demolishes the lies of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and their campaign of lies to the British people. Highlights: “They are feeding out to the British people a whole galaxy of inaccurate and frankly untrue […]
Posted: 1st January 2016
The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy surveyed chairs and chief executives working in hospital, ambulance, mental health and community trusts – the first time NHS leadership has been asked for opinion. Among the findings of the survey by NHS Providers that represents 96 per cent of the 238 NHS Trusts were: Two in […]
Posted: 1st January 2016
Without Using Sunsceen Outdoor Workers Risk Skin Cancer Warns CWU As the weather improves, and the temperatures throughout much of the UK have recently been above 20 degrees Celsius, the Health, Safety & Environment Department is taking the opportunity to warn members about the risks associated with hot weather, dehydration, sun stroke and Skin Cancer […]
Posted: 1st January 2016
CWU Criticises Ofcom For An Undercutter’s Charter For Workers In The Postal Industry The Communication Workers Union (CWU) which represents 130,000 employees in the postal industry responded to Ofcom’s review of the regulation of Royal Mail, which was published this morning (25th May 2016), by criticising the regulator for again pushing for insecure and inferior […]
Posted: 1st January 2016
Ofcom published a number of proposals this morning (25th May 2016) in the latest stage of its review of the way Royal Mail is regulated. The union’s press statement which was issued in response to this is reported here on this website. Ofcom launched its review following the withdrawal of Whistl from the delivery market […]
Posted: 1st January 2016
Irresponsible Dog Owner pays heavy price for allowing his out of control dog to bite off the tips of a Romford Postwoman’s Fingers. CWU member Claire Offord had only been a Postwoman for five months when on the 23rd February this year 2016 she was delivering to an address in Romford, Essex when without warning […]
Posted: 1st January 2016
Andy Furey, CWU Assistant Secretary has written to all Postal Branches to advise of the latest in the national talks on pay 2016: The CWU submitted a pay claim on 6th January for a one-year unconditional pay increase for Crown members of at least 1.9%, to achieve parity with year three of the three year […]
Posted: 1st January 2016
The Trade Union Bill completed its final stages and was passed by both Houses of Parliament last week becoming the Trade Union Act 2016. However, through the campaigning and political lobbying of the trade union and wider labour movement, the government was defeated on a number of important elements of the Bill in the House […]
Posted: 1st January 2016