Union and workplace bulletins

Postalworker of 09/01/04 puts the case for rejecting the deal with Royal Mail on pay and "Major Change". Download pdf.

Postalworker of 22 December 2003 asks some questions about the still-unpublished deal between the Communication Workers' Union and Royal Mail announced on 12 December 2003, and calls for the union to inquire into Royal Mail running extra fallback sorting offices with casual labour. Download pdf.

Postalworker of 28 October 2003 reports: "After the official 24 hour stoppages over London Weighting, managers have... victimised union reps and instructed postal workers to do work outside their duty description... They can be stopped". Download the bulletin.

The Postalworker bulletin of 29 September 2003 calls for solidarity with the one-day strike for £4000 London Weighting on Wednesday 1 October. Download the pdf.

The Postalworker bulletin of 1 July 2003 calls for votes for Pete Keenlyside in the election for Outdoor Secretary of the CWU, and argues the case against Royal Mail's new "Tailored Delivery System" (TDS). Download it here.

The rail union RMT is holding its conference in Glasgow from Sunday 29 June to Friday 3 July. The major debate is around the union's political fund, with the leadership, round Bob Crow, pushing for the RMT to support Plaid Cymru (the Welsh nationalist party) and the Greens as well as Scottish Socialist Party and Labour candidates. AWL members will be opposing this push. Download the AWL bulletin for RMT conference (as pdf) here.

AWL members published a daily bulletin at the 2003 conference of Unison, the giant public-services union which is Britain's largest. Download the bulletins here. (Sorry, for technical reasons they're not in the tidiest format we could wish for: some headings are missing, and the pdfs have some extra blank pages. But we hope this gives readers an idea of the issues at this important conference, and what the AWL did). Sunday 15 June, local government conference Monday 16 June, local government conference Tuesday 17 June, general conference Wednesday 18 June, general conference Thursday 19 June...

Postalworker of 15 October 2002 covers the RoMEC sell-out. Download here.

The Postalworker bulletin of 1 May 2003 calls for a vote for Dave Ward (pictured) against John Keggie in the forthcoming election for the Communication Workers' Union's Deputy General Secretary (Postal). Download here as pdf.

The 4 February 2003 issue of the Workers' Liberty Postalworker bulletin covers Royal Mail bosses' push for "Tailored Delivery Systems" (TDS). Download it here in pdf format.