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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.
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
TUC equality conferences elections
Letter to Branches
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| No. 911/12 | Ref:TK/PM/CMcK | Date: 10/12/2012 |
To: All Branch Secretaries
Dear Colleague
Elections of:
CWU Delegates to the TUC Equality Conference’s - 2013
Please find attached the regulations, nomination forms and Candidate consent and biographical details forms for the above Conferences. The details of which are as follows:-
TUC WOMEN’S CONFERENCE
Date: 13 – 15 March 2013
Venue: Congress House, London
TUC BLACK WORKERS CONFERENCE
Date: 12 – 14 April 2013
Venue: Congress House, London
TUC DISABLED WORKERS CONFERENCE
Date: 22 -23 May 2013
Venue: Congress House, London
TUC LGBT WORKERS CONFERENCE
Date: 28 – 29 June 2013 or 4-5 July 2013 (TBC)
Venue: Congress House, London
The Timetable for the elections is as follow:
Nominations open: 12 December 2012
Nominations close: 4 January 2013 (14.00)
Despatch ballot papers: 7 January 2013
Ballot closes: 18 January 2013 (14.00)
Reminders:-
- All candidates for election to the TUC Women’s Conference must be women.
- All nominees require the nomination of their own Branch.
Any enquiries regarding this LTB should be addressed to the Senior Deputy General Secretary’s Department on telephone number 0208 971 7237 or email address sdgs@cwu.org.
Yours sincerely,
Tony Kearns
Senior Deputy General Secretary
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Save Our Post on December 6th
The CWU will be holding a rally and lobby of MPs in a bid to garner support for a new Early Day Motion on Royal Mail privatisation.
Date: Thursday 6 December
Time: 13:00 (lobby starts, rally to follow)
Venue: Conference Room 14, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA.
Time: 13:00 (lobby starts, rally to follow)
Venue: Conference Room 14, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA.
Regional Secretaries will be co-ordinating attendance. Please consult the regions and branches section on the website for your regional secretary's contact details.
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Apply to be a parliamentary candidate for Rotherham
Following the resignation of Denis MacShane, a by-election will be held in Rotherham.
The Labour Party will therefore need to select a candidate to contest this election, and the Labour Party National Executive Committee is today inviting applications from all interested members.
Any member with more than 12 months current continuous membership may apply to be considered for this selection.
Application may be made on a standard CV which is available from the membersnet area of the web site at http://members.labour.org.uk/parliamentary-selections - you will need to be logged on to the members area to access this page.
Applications must be sent to rotherham@labour.org.uk
The closing date for applications is 10.00am on Friday 9th November.
The National Executive Committee by-election panel will consider the applications received and any persons long-listed will be required to attend an interview in London on Monday 12th November.
From those people interviewed a short-list of candidates will be selected. Short-listed candidates will be expected to attend a hustings meeting in the constituency on Tuesday 13th November.
Regards
Emilie Oldknow
The Labour Party will therefore need to select a candidate to contest this election, and the Labour Party National Executive Committee is today inviting applications from all interested members.
Any member with more than 12 months current continuous membership may apply to be considered for this selection.
Application may be made on a standard CV which is available from the membersnet area of the web site at http://members.labour.org.uk/parliamentary-selections - you will need to be logged on to the members area to access this page.
Applications must be sent to rotherham@labour.org.uk
The closing date for applications is 10.00am on Friday 9th November.
The National Executive Committee by-election panel will consider the applications received and any persons long-listed will be required to attend an interview in London on Monday 12th November.
From those people interviewed a short-list of candidates will be selected. Short-listed candidates will be expected to attend a hustings meeting in the constituency on Tuesday 13th November.
Regards
Emilie Oldknow
Virgin Media members. Vote yes for recognition.
Virgin Media move to de-recognise trade unions
7th November 2012
CWU has been informed by Virgin Media that the company intends to de-recognise its trade unions - by far the biggest of which is CWU.
All members of Virgin Media staff who are part of the Access Division workforce - mostly engineers -will be balloted in a self-proclaimed 'referendum' which opens today (Wednesday November 7) and closes on November 16. CWU was informed in a shock phone call on Friday afternoon and all staff received letters to their homes on Saturday explaining the company's intentions, with just days until the referendum opened.
Virgin Media is effectively (but not directly) asking employees to vote to deny themselves the right to be represented by trade union. Implicitly, employees have been asked to accept that Virgin Media's internal 'Voice Forum' is the best defender of their interests, despite the fact that it's self-evident that a company's own 'employee forum' cannot possibly be as independent as a democratically accountable trade union.
Classic 'union-busting' tactics - including the fact that many of those being balloted are not even in the recognised parts of the company - mean Virgin Media is virtually certain to get the result it wants. If so, the company will likely serve a three-month notice period on all current recognition agreements.
CWU deputy general secretary Andy Kerr said: "The CWU is nothing short of astonished at Virgin Media's decision to effectively declare war on the UK trade union movement in general, and its own employees' democratically elected representatives in particular.
"This derecognition move is not just entirely unprovoked but flies in the face of the public image that the entire Virgin Group has spent years cultivating for itself as an ethical and socially responsible entity.
"Virgin is always talking about the importance of 'trust' - indeed it specifically lists 'trust' as its core corporate value - yet the union-busting activity it has apparently embarked upon begs the question as to how much this company can actually be trusted.
"In the CWU we thought we were working in partnership with Virgin Media - but now discover the company has been working behind the scenes to stab us in the back."
Early indications show the company's actions are generating a sense of outrage amongst staff - reflected in a sudden surge in new CWU membership applications.
"This derecognition move is not just entirely unprovoked but flies in the face of the public image that the entire Virgin Group has spent years cultivating for itself as an ethical and socially responsible entity.
"Virgin is always talking about the importance of 'trust' - indeed it specifically lists 'trust' as its core corporate value - yet the union-busting activity it has apparently embarked upon begs the question as to how much this company can actually be trusted.
"In the CWU we thought we were working in partnership with Virgin Media - but now discover the company has been working behind the scenes to stab us in the back."
Early indications show the company's actions are generating a sense of outrage amongst staff - reflected in a sudden surge in new CWU membership applications.
Andy's message to Virgin Media and members alike is unequivocal: "Rest assured, the CWU is not in the business of walking away and abandoning its members. We intend to continue the fight for better working conditions in Virgin Media - and we intend to continue to grow our membership. We're not going anywhere!"
CWU is encouraging people to vote to retain union recognition in the ballot.
CWU has members in engineering and call centre roles but only has recognition for collective bargaining for parts of the engineering workforce.
CWU immediately sent a letter to members on Monday setting out the union's position in response to this news and is in constant contact with reps and concerned staff at the company. Read the letter >here<.
Do you work for Virgin Media? If so, join CWU today. Contact us on freephone 0800 731 7434, email Joinunion@cwu.org or simply download and complete the application form to join now.
Gender pay gap latest.
A report published by the Fawcett Society indicates tha the gender pay gap in the UK is still wide. Find out more here http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/16/gender-pay-gap-audits
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
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