CWU – Communication Workers Union

CWU: All out on 9 December!

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 […]

A CWU Rep  ·  09 December 2022

Postal strike at the crossroads — fight for workers’ control

Drip-feeding strikes hasn't shaken the bosses. It's time to organise for escalated action and against a compromise.

KD Tait  ·  18 November 2022

Postal bosses go nuclear — union must respond in kind

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

A CWU Rep  ·  02 November 2022

Royal Mail bulletin: Postal bosses go nuclear

Royal Mail bulletin for 1 November 2022

Workers Power  ·  01 November 2022

Royal Mail bulletin: Break the bosses before they break us

Royal Mail bulletin for 20 October 2022

Workers Power  ·  20 October 2022

Break the bosses before they break Royal Mail

Management threats must be met with escalation

A CWU Rep  ·  20 October 2022

Where next for the Royal Mail strikes?

Rank and File update

A CWU Rep  ·  23 September 2022

How can the strikes win – and what would victory look like?

Will this strike wave, the biggest for 30 years, end in victory?

Jeremy Dewar  ·  12 September 2022

Royal Mail strikes must demand nationalisation

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

A CWU Rep  ·  12 September 2022

Political bulletin: Launch of ‘Enough Is Enough’ campaign

Political bulletin for 17 August 2022

Workers Power  ·  17 August 2022

Postal bosses gear up for battle – let’s strike back now!

Let's bring the strike forward.

A CWU Rep  ·  08 August 2022

Royal Mail bulletin: Coordinate and escalate the action

Industrial bulletin for 29 July 2022

Workers Power  ·  29 July 2022

Political bulletin: Time to escalate and coordinate

Political bulletin for 27 July 2022

Workers Power  ·  27 July 2022

Royal Mail threatens to break up company if workers strike

Postal workers and the public should reject Royal Mail blackmail.

Pete Thompson  ·  20 July 2022

Building collectivism, organising councils of action

Editorial July-August 2022, No. 395

Andy Yorke  ·  05 July 2022

Mail, post, telecoms: co-ordinate the strikes

By a CWU rep IT IS a sign of the times that workers across the three main sectors organised by the Communications Workers Union—Royal Mail, Post Office and British Telecom—could be striking together. This would be a first for the CWU. Post Office workers led the way earlier this summer, with 1,500 workers taking two […]

Andy Yorke  ·  05 July 2022

Report — TUC lefts urge resistance to cost of living crisis

By Jeremy Dewar “A new deal for working people, a new social settlement for the UK” A LONDON TUC rally for the 18 June national demonstration heard speakers from a variety of disputes and strikes. Rail workers, teachers and lecturers, caterers and cleaners, civil servants were all represented. The eve-of-rally meeting, held at Congress House […]

Jeremy Dewar  ·  14 June 2022

Royal Mail: profits up, pay down as CWU prepares strike ballot

Demand 10% - or prepare to strike

A CWU Rep  ·  31 May 2022

Post Office workers serve up strike

Post Office workers are preparing to strike on 3 May after a massive 97.3% vote for industrial action over pay.

Andy Yorke  ·  27 April 2022

Fighting sexism in the tech sector

Getting organised is the first step

Sam Copley  ·  06 March 2022

CWU-Royal Mail Deal: The price of not fighting

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

A CWU Rep  ·  20 January 2021

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