LTB 084/24 UNION FEES TO RISE BY 17P PER WEEK

[POSTMAN]

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LTB 084/24 UNION FEES TO RISE BY 17P PER WEEK
No: 084/24

28th February 2024

TO: ALL BRANCHES
Dear Colleague

UNION FEES TO RISE BY 17P PER WEEK

Since 2015, the CWU has pledged to ensure that union subscriptions were not raised every year as a matter of course. As a result, fees have only risen once since then.

In the last five years alone, if we had kept subscription rises in line with inflation, fees would have gone up by 25.4%. As you know, during the last five years, there has been no rise at all despite facing several monumental industrial disputes, a global pandemic and an economic crisis, which has driven up costs.

We have now reached a point where fees must go up and the CWU National Executive have taken a decision to increase the rate for full-time members by 17p per week, from April 1st 2024. Part-time members and members on other subscription rates will see a smaller pro rata increase.

For CWU members in EE, it should be noted there are different rate increases to those stated above, which is a result of previous introductory rates. This will be the subject of a separate communication from the T&FS Industrial Executive.

The table of all the new subscription rates is now available on the CWU website see link below:-



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This rise will coincide with pre-agreed pay increase for our members in BT Group and Royal Mail Group, as well as other companies where pay increases have recently been agreed for CWU members.

Going forward, we are going to table proposals to our National Executive that any future increases will be lower than the rate of the average pay rises we achieve for our members across the union. This means we will continue to ensure that union membership remains good value for money.

For our members in BT, the employer implemented the subscriptions increase earlier than planned in error. They are going to adjust subscriptions in March to correct this. Following this, the appropriate rate will be applied from April onwards.

There are huge challenges facing all workers in the UK and now more than ever, it is important that the CWU stands together, defends every member we represent and fights for a better world of work.

We thank all our members for their continued support.

Yours sincerely

Dave Ward

General Secretary

Tony Kearns

Senior Deputy General Secretary

[Valentina@1]

Shameless

[BigRon62]

After the non representation I got before I left the business. I should be due a refund for 36 years dues from the cwu.worlds worst union.

[qwerty2]

17p rise taking the piss
Glad I stopped my subs a few years ago

[enskied]

Funds have fallen that much.

[moonjaguar]

I still pay mine but am not sure now. My thinking was, despite getting RM to shaft me on overtime holiday pay and agreeing to all the new nonsense, they might help me if needed. But when something recently came up, they were beyond useless. I am very close to cancelling my subs.

[Linden14]

For what?

[enskied]

More than the price of stamps

[R5001]

Gonna continue to pay for the effective "insurance" value, in case s**t goes wrong, but... I don't think it's a good time to raise the sub cost at all. More than a few will leave over it who were on the fence, and I'll guess it'll be enough to make the increase effectively meaningless for the unions overall funds.

[Judgee]

Well the price of the union jollies to Blackpool must have gone up substantially so I guess it's only fair that us workers foot the bill. The union have after all, won us the deal of the century and continue to protect all our interests to the full against our evil overlords!

Think it maybe time to leave the CWU. This is just one piss take too many!

[tpost]

Quite a few have left the union in my office. Probably raising the fees to make up for loss of members