CWU rams through pro-company agreements at Royal Mail off historic low voter turnout
Just 40.3 percent of members submitted a ballot return--a vote of no-confidence in the entire Communication Workers Union bureaucracy.
Laura Tiernan•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee is organising workers against Royal Mail’s attacks, for the defence of terms and conditions, an end to all job cuts and to defeat victimisations. We are opposed to the Communication Workers Union bureaucracy, which acts as Royal Mail’s partner. Information on the committee can be found here. We are affiliated to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
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Sri Lanka: SEP holds online public meeting on postal workers’ strike
Speakers placed the struggle of postal workers within the broader crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism and the need for workers to form independent action committees to fight the government’s IMF-dictated measures.
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Sri Lankan union leaders shut down postal strike
The unions caved in to government threats without any of the strike’s 19 demands—including unpaid overtime benefits, job security, workplace conditions, and the imposition of fingerprint machines—being met.
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Thousands of Sri Lankan postal workers remain on strike, defying government threats
The strike is part of a growing wave of industrial action and the radicalisation of workers in Sri Lanka and around the world against attacks on social and democratic rights.
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Tony Robson•
Erik Schreiber•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (Canada)•
Alex Findijs•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
CWU betrayal at Royal Mail: Draw the lessons and organise the fightback
Any discussion of the way forward must involve a review of the essential lessons of the year-long dispute.
Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting draws lessons of CWU Royal Mail betrayal and discusses fightback strategy
The dispute’s outcome has exposed the lie peddled by “activist” groups such as Postal Workers Say Vote No that the CWU leadership could be pressured to reverse their rotten agreement with the company.
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CWU imposes historic betrayal of postal workers as Royal Mail agreement accepted
Dave Ward’s depiction of the ballot as an exercise in democracy is a travesty. The CWU bureaucracy waged a vicious and targeted campaign against all those advocating a No vote.
Laura Tiernan•
Royal Mail workers indict CWU leadership for rotten sellout of their year-long fight
“Ward and his overpaid sidekicks are throwing away rights won by previous generations. Their names will live on in ignominy.”
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Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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Laura Tiernan•
Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
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Reinstate all victimised workers!
Royal Mail workers denounce stitch up of reps and members by the Communication Workers Union in Falconer Review
It is an obscenity that the livelihoods of fighters for the working class are threatened. Those who should face the axe are the pro-company bureaucracy responsible for the betrayal of those they were meant to represent.
Tony Robson•
“The CWU Executive led by Ward and Furey has betrayed each of you:” A victimised rep at Royal Mail speaks on Falconer Review
The WSWS is publishing an appeal to the rank-and-file from a victimised Communication Workers Union rep responding to the rigged outcome of the review of mass victimisations during the year long dispute at Royal Mail.
Tony Robson•
Falconer Review of victimised Royal Mail workers: CWU delivers a travesty of justice
With all terms of reference agreed behind closed doors by Royal Mail, the CWU and Falconer, the review was only “independent” from union members who were denied any say on the matter.
Tony Robson•
Reinstate all victimised reps and postal workers! End the CWU-Lord Falconer conspiracy at Royal Mail!
Since July 2022, more than 400 union reps and postal workers have been sacked or suspended in the largest number of victimisations since the 1984-85 miners’ strike.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Postal workers denounce mass sackings at Royal Mail’s Prenton Delivery Office
Royal Mail workers in the Wirral spoke out in defence of their sacked colleagues. One postie said, “I think people who got sacked were targeted. They’ve not gone after everyone. They are picking out people who are going against the grain.”
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Royal Mail workers describe wave of victimisations and bullying: “Our lives have been devastated”
“My husband was dismissed in June for totally made-up charges by his bosses. He had over 31 years’ service and an unblemished record.”
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Royal Mail’s new regime: PDAs used to sack workers for tea break at local pub
The sackings at Prenton are a direct outcome of the national agreement between the Communication Workers’ Union and Royal Mail which includes the use of PDA data for performance management.
Laura Tiernan•
“The power needs to be in all the workers’ hands”: Highlights from online Q&A with Will Lehman, candidate for UAW president
On August 27, Lehman hosted an online Q and A, explaining his campaign’s perspective of building a rank-and-file movement and uniting workers internationally.
Will Lehman•
Build the UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
In this the founding statement of the Committee, which was founded in a meeting held last weekend, rank-and-file UPS workers call for workers to “to organize ourselves—not to 'support' the bargaining committee and to cheerlead for them, but to enforce our democratic will, and position ourselves to countermand the inevitable sellout.”
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Dana paid shareholders $57 million last year, but where is our “profit sharing”?
Dana workers across the US noticed as March 31, the date by which Appendix P of the contract says Dana must pay “profit sharing,” passed without workers receiving much needed income. We, the rank-and-file, are demanding answers as to why we did not get paid.
Dana Workers’ Rank-and-File Committee•
“The union declares the contract struggle over, but we’re just getting started!”
Lively discussion at online meeting of the Postal Action Committee in Germany
The second online public meeting of the Postal Action Committee unanimously passed a resolution that begins with the words, “The second ballot was one big scam to push through cuts in real wages.”
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Jim Franklin•
The Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
NHS FightBack•
London Bus Rank-and-File Committee•
Will Lehman•
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