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Union fees and where it goes

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Re: Union fees and where it goes

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i thought all union subs paid for the cwu pissup in blackpool
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Re: Union fees and where it goes

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Billy and Dave are moving up in the world. They don't do pies any more, now it prawn baguettes and they don't come cheap. Expect an increase in our dues any time soon.
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If anyone is interested in the facts about the Union's finances. The accounts are published each year and are available to any CWU member from the CWU website at http://www.cwu.org/ltb-378/08-cwu-accounts-2007.html
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vanman wrote:If anyone is interested in the facts about the Union's finances. The accounts are published each year and are available to any CWU member from the CWU website at http://www.cwu.org/ltb-378/08-cwu-accounts-2007.html
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Re: Union fees and where it goes

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amma fairman wrote:if there are say 100000 posties in the business, and we pay 3 quid a week each- roughly, over the year that would be somewhere in the region of 14 milion quid eh?
Question, where does it all go?

Who gets what, ?

I wouldnt mind seeing where it all goes like?

anyone else?
http://www.cwu.org/ltb-378/08-cwu-accounts-2007.html
check out the link above and for the year 2007 your figures are way down on what they report - well your 1/2 right :Very Happy
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pinstripe wrote:Billy and Dave are moving up in the world. They don't do pies any more, now it prawn baguettes and they don't come cheap. Expect an increase in our dues any time soon.
Are they Man Utd supporters too? :angel
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amma fairman wrote:
TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
amma fairman wrote:if there are say 100000 posties in the business, and we pay 3 quid a week each- roughly, over the year that would be somewhere in the region of 14 milion quid eh?
Question, where does it all go?

Who gets what, ?

I wouldnt mind seeing where it all goes like?

anyone else?
http://www.cwu.org/ltb-378/08-cwu-accounts-2007.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
check out the link above and for the year 2007 your figures are way down on what they report - well your 1/2 right :Very Happy
thanks TBT, I wasnt muck raising, just thought the figures may be close to the mark, cheers for the link though.
Didn't think you where Amma - the 1/2 right bit was coz you said £14m and its actually £27M :shock:
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That 27Million - is that including the profit from CWU TV?, or is that just subs :wink:
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dvbuk55 wrote:That 27Million - is that including the profit from CWU TV?, or is that just subs :wink:
Just subs less the political fees
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Dont forget CWU is more than just a load of posties, its BT, Virginmedia and quite a few other companies.

UCW is ancient history, although I bet some posters remember the UPW :chuckle
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Big Daz wrote:Dont forget CWU is more than just a load of posties, its BT, Virginmedia and quite a few other companies.

UCW is ancient history, although I bet some posters remember the UPW :chuckle
That would be the BT members who have voted for a similar pension deal to ours then - looks like the advice they get is no better than what we get so there is parity of a kind. :d'oh!