Royal Mail
Royal Mail: workers can counter attacks at the grassroots
Bosses walk all over deal as union leaders dither.
Royal Mail bosses line up to cut public service
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 […]
Postal workers: Organise to stop the retreat!
CWU bureaucracy wins on rotten deal, but struggle won't end.
Postal workers: Vote no and defend our terms and conditions
Rotten agreement will not provide job security and will weaken union.
CWU ballot: Security and stability or a race to the bottom?
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: Restore the strikes!
Royal Mail bulletin for 9 June
CWU opposition forces u-turn on ballot
No more delay, restore the strikes.
Bulletin: Build the NO vote campaign
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Royal Mail: Build the No Vote campaign
Rank and file workers should use the campaign to get organised.
Royal Blackmail: don’t give in to company threats
Renationalisation is CWU policy -- let's fight for it
Organise a “vote no” campaign against the Royal Mail deal
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 […]
Pay vs profits: Royal Mail dispute at a crossroads
Workers need a rank-and-file movement to take control of the dispute to stop a bad deal
Postal workers – are we sliding towards a bad deal?
Workers need to organise against any sell-out of the dispute.
Escalating action needs to follow the massive strike vote in Royal Mail
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 […]
CWU reballot: vote yes and restore the strike!
By Pete Thompson WORKERS IN Royal Mail and Parcelforce took 18 days of strike action last year against bosses’ plans to hold down pay and rip up terms and conditions in a union-busting campaign to transform the company on the model of its gig-economy parcel courier competitors. Strike action was enough to see some significant […]
How can postal workers break the deadlock?
We must escalate to all out.
Suspended CWU rep speaks out: the union must fight for our reinstatement
Royal Mail has suspended at least 100 CWU reps.
CWU: All out on 9 December
Royal Mail bulletin for 9 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.
Postal bosses go nuclear — union must respond in kind
CWU leaders have called off strikes after bosses threatened them with court action
CWU dispute: Postal bosses go nuclear
Royal Mail bulletin for 1 November 2022
CWU: Break the bosses before they break us
Royal Mail bulletin for 20 October 2022
Break the bosses before they break Royal Mail
Management threats must be met with escalation
Where next for the Royal Mail strikes?
Rank and File update
Royal Mail strikes must demand nationalisation
It is clear that nothing less than the future of Royal Mail itself is at stake.
Postal bosses gear up for battle – let’s strike back now!
Let's bring the strike forward.
CWU: Coordinate and escalate the action
Industrial bulletin for 29 July 2022
Political bulletin: Time to escalate and coordinate
Political bulletin for 27 July 2022
Royal Mail threatens to break up company if workers strike
Postal workers and the public should reject Royal Mail blackmail.
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 […]
