About Me
- Linda Roy
- Lifetime commitment to the trade union and labour movement. Been local workplace and national CWU representative and held many other positions in the CWU. TUC accredited tutor and disability champion. Former Labour town councillor and town Mayor.
Friday, 10 September 2010
Royal Mail should be sold to the highest bidder
The dail mail reports today that it has seen the latest Hooper report which recommends that Royal Mail be sold off to the highest bidder. We must stop this! Read more here Royal Mail sale could cost £400 per home as taxpayers fund £13.3bn pension deficit Mail Online
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
CWU Humanitarian Aid on Youtube
This years CWU Humanitarian Aid convoy departed for Moldova last Friday. Alex Pearson advises me that CWUHA now has it's own channel on Youtube. Please pay it a visit. Even better make a doantion. Visit YouTube - CWUHA's Channel#p/u
Royal Mail Not For Sale. Briefing
The London region are hosting a national Royal Mail Not For Sale briefing at the Shaw Theatre Novotel, 100-110 Euston Road, London tomorrow September 9th starting at 10.30am. Unfortunately I can't attend as I'm dealing with members problems in Northampton. Fore more information and to send messages of support go to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149002091795091&index=1
Barrow DQ update
CWU CAMPAIGN -
BT Jobs for Barrow
Dear Colleague,
The CWU has received the following statement from BT regarding their reasons for closing Barrow DQ as follows;
1) As part of the Volt Switch Replacement Programme we will be multiskilling all staff on DQ and OA which allows a much more flexible and efficient resource mix. It also means that in the future we will not need as many centres to provide contingency across the organisation.
2) Additionally volumes of DQ traffic as a whole have reduced by over 20% this year, and we expect that trend to continue, again meaning we will not need as many people to handle the calls forecast in 2011.
3) When we initially scoped out sites in February to move out of DQ and take on alternative roles, we were working on the basis that 21CN connectivity to Barrow was feasible. At that time it was still a potential long term site.
4) However at order stage with 21CN Delivery, we were advised that there were issues, and that Barrow was actually NOT feasible as 21CN infrastructure had not been delivered to that part of the North West. More importantly, we were advised that full diversity of routing is not possible whatever the infrastructure at Barrow as geographically there is only one route in and out of Barrow. Therefore 999 traffic cannot be routed there.
5) The rest of our Infrastructure will all based on 21C and if Barrow remained as a DQ only site, we would be forced into a two-tier network which will only be available for a short time, and at considerable cost.
Sally Bridge
CWU Assistant Secretary
BT Jobs for Barrow
Dear Colleague,
The CWU has received the following statement from BT regarding their reasons for closing Barrow DQ as follows;
1) As part of the Volt Switch Replacement Programme we will be multiskilling all staff on DQ and OA which allows a much more flexible and efficient resource mix. It also means that in the future we will not need as many centres to provide contingency across the organisation.
2) Additionally volumes of DQ traffic as a whole have reduced by over 20% this year, and we expect that trend to continue, again meaning we will not need as many people to handle the calls forecast in 2011.
3) When we initially scoped out sites in February to move out of DQ and take on alternative roles, we were working on the basis that 21CN connectivity to Barrow was feasible. At that time it was still a potential long term site.
4) However at order stage with 21CN Delivery, we were advised that there were issues, and that Barrow was actually NOT feasible as 21CN infrastructure had not been delivered to that part of the North West. More importantly, we were advised that full diversity of routing is not possible whatever the infrastructure at Barrow as geographically there is only one route in and out of Barrow. Therefore 999 traffic cannot be routed there.
5) The rest of our Infrastructure will all based on 21C and if Barrow remained as a DQ only site, we would be forced into a two-tier network which will only be available for a short time, and at considerable cost.
Sally Bridge
CWU Assistant Secretary
Monday, 6 September 2010
CWU Disability Conference
CWU Disability Conference - Saturday, 23rd October 2010
The above conference will take place at CWU Headquarters, 150 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1RX.
Registration will be from 10.00am and Conference starts at 10.30 am.
The above conference will take place at CWU Headquarters, 150 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1RX.
Registration will be from 10.00am and Conference starts at 10.30 am.
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Disability discrimination is rife
According to a report in the Sunday Independent our record on disability discrimination is terrible. Read report here http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/iiosi-investigation-our-patronising-approach-to-10-million-disabled-britons-2070878.html
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Hunting for sex traffickers
Watch the second episode of this fascinating documentary tonight. The first made my blood boil. http://www.channel4.com/
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