Drivers using Mobiles & Sat-Navs could face 2 Years in Jail...
As prosecutions and road accidents continue to mount in numbers, the health, safety and environment department are passing on a warning issued by the Police. Drivers who use mobile phone at the wheel could face up to two years in jail...
Outdoor Working in the Sun & maximum temperature indoors...
When working outdoors in the Sun the effects of the weather in this environment can potentially have a very serious impact on an employees welfare if the risks have never been previously considered or managed properly...
In reaction to Postwatch’s performance figures for 2007/08, CWU responded in anger at Royal Mail management’s deliberately misleading and greedy bonus scheme and continued double standards for different levels of staff...
In response to Royal Mail's full financial results, which show a package of pay, pension and bonuses worth £3million for Chief Executive Adam Crozier, the CWU has reacted with this statement:...
CWU Submission to Government Review of Liberalisation...
Attached is a copy of the CWU's 2nd submission to the review of Royal Mail liberalisation. This refers to the request from Richard Hooper's review team for submissions specifically on the future of the universal service obligation...
Invest in Royal Mail to protect universal service, says CWU...
CWU has submitted evidence to the second round of the government-commissioned review into competition in the postal market focussing on the future of the universal service...
Competition has brought no benefits to postal customers...
The Communication Workers Union has welcomed the announcement by the government review team that "liberalisation of the UK postal service has produced no significant benefit for either households or small business...
We have now formally concluded a Review at National Level of the progress of Phase 2 Flexibility Plans and the payment dates for the £400 to be received by those Units that have jointly agreed plans in place...
Secretary of State for Business, John Hutton, has announced a comprehensive review of developments in the postal services market since its liberalisation...
Please find attached the pensions result, along with the next steps document that sets out in detail our positioning with our members, the government & employer...
Postal workers have overwhelmingly rejected Royal Mail’s pension changes in a CWU consultative ballot of 140,000 members. The full result is as follows...
Despite claiming that its consultation has been “extensive”, Royal Mail’s proposals remain the same as when they began. Royal Mail Group does not understand...
A full page advert appears in today’s Daily Mirror and Guardian publicising the trade union case for agency workers rights. “Stop the undercutting, stop the abuse”...
The ‘cost’ of equal rights for temps: busting the business myths
The TUC is calling on the Government today (Wednesday) to support Andrew Miller’s Private Member’s Bill to give agency workers legal equal treatment rights...
