Postal workers, send a message to rmpw.rfc@gmail.com to contact and join the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee. On Saturday, April 15, the Communication Workers Union and Royal Mail issued a joint statement, “After almost a year of talks, Royal Mail and the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) are pleased to announce they have reached …
Read More »Growing support for UK Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Send a message to rmpw.rfc@gmail.com to contact and join the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee. The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee has received growing interest and support from delivery and mail processing workers at Royal Mail. The latest write-ins are in response to the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) article providing an …
Read More »Junior doctors in the UK speak on their strike
Junior doctors in the British Medical Association (BMA) and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) are taking four consecutive days of strikes this week. World Socialist Web Site reporters visited picket lines on the first day of the action. Victoria was picketing Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital. She has been a …
Read More »UK Royal Mail postal workers speak on their forming a rank-and-file committee
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) spoke to postal workers who took part in the April 2 online meeting hosted by the Socialist Equality Party, Those who attended included postal workers based in delivery offices and mail processing centres from around the country in London, the south, Midlands, the Eastern …
Read More »How to fight back at Royal Mail—A meeting for rank-and-file workers
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and the World Socialist Web Site will be hosting an online meeting of rank-and-file postal workers next Monday, March 27, at 7pm to discuss taking forward the fight against attacks on living standards and working conditions, and the victimisation of their colleagues. Register for the …
Read More »UK Royal Mail posties contact WSWS to describe brutal conditions and collusion of Communication Workers Union with management
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) received further correspondence over the weekend from postal workers around the country. They are speaking out against the crushing increase in workloads facilitated by the collusion of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) with Royal Mail. The new write-ins come from London, Essex, Glasgow, Worcestershire, Plymouth, Bolton upon …
Read More »400,000 workers strike in the UK, tens of thousands rally in London
Around 50,000 people took part in a national demonstration of striking workers in London on Wednesday. School, university, and London Underground workers, plus junior doctors, assembled in Hyde Park before marching to Trafalgar Square. Government workers staged their own demonstration, gathering at Embankment before joining the main rally. Striking workers …
Read More »Sellout being prepared in closed-door talks between Royal Mail and CWU
Postal workers have picked up on the undeniable stench of a sellout hanging over the closed-door talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and are up in arms. CWU General Secretary Dave Ward on Thursday March 2 stated at an online meeting with postal workers that a …
Read More »Communication Workers Union deepens collusion with Royal Mail to prepare strike sell-out
The seven-month struggle of 115,000 postal workers against restructuring by Royal Mail is being sabotaged by the Communication Workers Union (CWU). After 18 days of strike action since last August against an imposed sub-inflation pay award of 2 percent, demands for the tearing up terms and conditions and plans for …
Read More »Royal Mail: When is the next postal strike and why is the Communication Workers’ Union taking industrial action?
R oyal Mail’s operations will be hit once more, when thousands of staff stage a 24-hour strike this February. The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) has around 115,000 members, and they have voted to take action over disputes around pay and conditions. CWU general secretary Dave Ward said: “This action is …
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