After months of residents complaining about letters going undelivered for days or even weeks, and workers leaking photos of frames full of undelivered mail, the regulator Ofcom has declared a review of the Universal Service Obligation. The USO is a legal obligation, held by Royal Mail, dictating quality of service requirements. For instance, 93% of […]

Rotten agreement will not provide job security and will weaken union.

By a CWU Rep The CWU leadership argues that if we had continued to strike Royal Mail would have gone bankrupt. The Tories would have taken it over, handed the parcel operation to the company’s international holding company IDS (until last year Royal Mail Group) and slashed the USO, losing tens of thousands of jobs. […]

Royal Mail bulletin for 9 June

No more delay, restore the strikes.

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Rank and file workers should use the campaign to get organised.

Renationalisation is CWU policy -- let's fight for it

WHEN THE CWU postal union finally released the text of its deal with Royal Mail after months of negotiations, it immediately became clear union leaders had conceded to most of Royal Mail’s demands. The members’ response was overwhelmingly negative. Even as the union’s media team was uploading video after video trying to spin the deal […]

Workers need a rank-and-file movement to take control of the dispute to stop a bad deal

Workers need to organise against any sell-out of the dispute.

Postal workers have done it again. Forced to reballot by the Tory anti-union laws after six months of strikes and lost pay, they smashed it, with a remarkable 95.9% vote for action on a 77.3% turnout, nearly as high as the previous record ballots. Even after 18 days of strike action last year and lost […]

A new introduction to our pamphlet on the 2007 Postal Strike.

We must escalate to all out.

Royal Mail has suspended at least 100 CWU reps.

By a CWU Rep TENS OF thousands of postal workers will mass the picketlines then march on London today. Despite wintry weather and management harassment, strikers remain solid. Public support too has kept strong. True, the billionaire press and TV grill union leaders like Dave Ward and Mick Lynch for Christmas strikes while letting the […]

CWU leaders have called off strikes after bosses threatened them with court action

Management threats must be met with escalation

Rank and File update

It is clear that nothing less than the future of Royal Mail itself is at stake.

Let's bring the strike forward.

Demand 10% - or prepare to strike

The new CWU-Royal Mail deal sells our conditions too cheaply.

Postal workers being lined up for a defeat

The answer to a Royal Mail in the red is renationalisation not cuts

Royal Mail's attempt to cut the postal service has been thwarted by the threat of walkouts.

While the ballot is on hold, postal workers’ health concerns have come to the fore as offices in Bridgewater and Alloa walk out

In the ballot result announcement on Tuesday, Dave Ward and Terry Pullinger reported on growing anger in the workforce against lack of management action to protect staff against coronavirus. Royal Mail have done little to provide gloves, hand sanitiser or sympathy despite the vulnerability of staff who work among the public every day.

What we do now will determine whether we have jobs and a postal service in the future – vote yes and prepare for the fight of our lives.

Royal Mail's promises don't matter if they succeed in busting the union. That's where 120,000 postal workers come in