london cwu members to vote on labour party affiliation
by Jack Staunton Thousands of members of the London region of the Communications Workers’ Union are to vote in an ‘indicative ballot’ over affiliation to the Labour Party. The vote comes not only...
View Articleno postal peace without an all-out strike
by Gregor Gall Have you noticed your post isn’t arriving as regularly as it usually does? Have you noticed there are many days when you expected to get post but didn’t get a thing? For a strike...
View Articlesupport the postal strikes!
Tens of thousands of Royal Mail workers will be staging 24 hour strikes over the next two days. We would encourage anyone who is able to visit picket lines, and talk to workers, as well as looking to...
View Articlea letter from a postman
A Royal Mail worker describes the background to the 2009 national strike vote, including details of how managers have been manipulating the figures to justify cuts. Old people still write letters the...
View Articleroyal mail management strategy for defeating strike
Below appear a series of slides from a Royal Mail management strategy document for dealing with the national strike. These amply display the bosses’ craven lack of ‘good faith’ and feckless disdain...
View Articlebulletin for post strike: no deal, crozier
A bulletin for postal workers: click here for PDF. Print some off and take them down to your local picket line (or if not, visit your local picket line and show your solidarity anyway…). If you live...
View Articlelet’s form postcode gangs!
By Joe Thorne No, not the postcode gangs that generate periodic moral panics in the mainstream media. We need a new sort of postcode gang: made up of workers and activists who visit the picket lines...
View Articlepost strikes suspended: this deal is no deal! resume action!
by Joe Thorne CWU Letter to Branches including text of final agreement with Royal Mail (large PDF) At the top of the CWU-Royal Mail agreement is a header. “Final Draft – 5 November 2009 —- 1.10AM”....
View Articletrades union congress: no saviours from on high
A piece by Clifford Biddulph, part of a debate on the TUC When the Communication Workers’ Union executive unanimously called off the postal strike on the government’s terms without an agreement, the...
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