The CWU Is Calling On Postal Workers To Use Their Community Influence This Election

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 05 Jun 2017, 17:11

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CWU Calls on Postal Workers to use community influence in General Election

The Communication Workers Union has today taken the unprecedented step of writing to all members asking them to use their influence, trust and bond with local communities across the country.

Our Postal Workers go to 26 million addresses, 6 days a week and are amongst the most trusted figures in the UK.

A copy of a letter by our Deputy General Secretary (Postal), Terry Pullinger and myself, which has been sent to every Royal Mail workplace in the country is below.

We now have less than a week before one of the most important general elections we can remember. On 8th June everyone in this country will have a clear choice about the future - this time around it can’t be said that all politicians are the same or that it doesn’t matter who you vote for.

You will make up your own mind about how to vote this week. But with Labour’s pledge to renationalise Royal Mail we have a once in a generation opportunity to bring it back into public ownership and end the relentless drive for profit that increases the pressure on your daily workload and the threats to your job, pension, terms and conditions.

‎If Labour gets in, as an employee, the value of your shares will be protected, privatisation will be reversed and we will be able to tackle unfair competition head on. Labour are offering a better deal for all workers and as part of this crucial wider strategy, we can bring to an end a labour market that currently operates like the wild west.

The above are things this union has long fought for and they will support and assist us in standing up to Royal Mail again with our four pillars campaign.

Alongside our industry aims, we have secured commitments in Labour’s manifesto on issues that CWU members have told us to campaign on: to end the housing crisis with a massive programme of housebuilding, for significant extra funding for the NHS and for a whole range of strong new employment and trade union rights. Whatever your views on it in the past, Labour is now standing up for working people in this country.

‎If we are going to deliver this change on 8 June, we need your help. We are asking you to talk to your friends, talk to your family, talk to the public and ask them to vote Labour.

As a postal worker, serving every community in this country, you can have a unique role. Please consider helping us to help you bring about real change in the interests of you job, our industry and the vast majority of people in the UK.

The country needs a core change in values. Only Labour will deliver this.

rubberbond · Post by **rubberbond** » 05 Jun 2017, 17:36

Why should I upset my customers by trying to influence the way they vote, there are plenty of Vote Labour/Conservative/Muppet ,posters in people's windows and it makes no difference to me,people's views are up to them.
If I delivered in Kensington and Chelsea ,for example, does he think that my going around saying,I'm your postman, please vote Labour,is going to make any difference,or if I go to Toxteth and say, vote Conservative. What a stupid thing to ask us to do. I'm part of the community ,which I enjoy and wish it to remain that way,so in that case,I shall be keeping my political views to myself.

Tman · Post by **Tman** » 05 Jun 2017, 18:19

I thought the unions had given up trying to influence how members voted years ago on account of there being little to choose and no clear-cut "good guys".
Good old dinosaur CWU (or is it still the UCW?) still living very much in the past.
{Or in the desperate hope of renationalisation of RM...La La Land}

worktotime · Post by **worktotime** » 05 Jun 2017, 18:55

the cwu is a f***ing joke , they wont get another penny off me , the members have bigger issues than who gets in , hows the pay talks going ? disgusting.

borgpicard · Post by **borgpicard** » 05 Jun 2017, 19:34

worktotime wrote:the cwu is a f***ing joke , they wont get another penny off me , the members have bigger issues than who gets in , hows the pay talks going ? disgusting.

well said.

borgpicard · Post by **borgpicard** » 05 Jun 2017, 19:37

Why do we want a terrorist sympathiser running ( sorry I mean ruining ) our country, and abbot couldnt add 2 and 2 together if her life depended on it, you want the country fu cked up , vote corbyn.

Post by **aiden01** » 05 Jun 2017, 19:41

worktotime wrote:the cwu is a f***ing joke , they wont get another penny off me , the members have bigger issues than who gets in , hows the pay talks going ? disgusting.

why would they tell us the paying members anything more money flushed down the toilet sending that piss out..

worktotime · Post by **worktotime** » 05 Jun 2017, 19:46

borgpicard wrote:Why do we want a terrorist sympathiser running ( sorry I mean ruining ) our country, and abbot couldnt add 2 and 2 together if her life depended on it, you want the country fu cked up , vote corbyn.

yer but don't forget if labour get in they will sort all our problems out , pensions , terms and conditions , 35 hr week , pay increase , new ways of working , sick pay , b&h , and more , utter bullshit , I thought that was the cwu that did all that, all this makes me so angry ,

worktotime · Post by **worktotime** » 05 Jun 2017, 19:48

aiden01 wrote:
worktotime wrote:the cwu is a f***ing joke , they wont get another penny off me , the members have bigger issues than who gets in , hows the pay talks going ? disgusting.
why would they tell us the paying members anything more money flushed down the toilet sending that piss out..

to right mushrooms comes to mind , kept in the dark and fed on s**t.

TheTrolleyMan · Post by **TheTrolleyMan** » 05 Jun 2017, 20:19

Pity the CWU don't put as much effort into our terms & condition , bunch of sell outs

worktotime · Post by **worktotime** » 05 Jun 2017, 20:27

TheTrolleyMan wrote:Pity the CWU don't put as much effort into our terms & condition , bunch of sell outs

the thing is if there like this at the top what chance has the front line reps got ? no f***ing chance,

worktotime · Post by **worktotime** » 05 Jun 2017, 20:47

donefuckall.com.

TheTrolleyMan · Post by **TheTrolleyMan** » 05 Jun 2017, 20:54

Nice one that should be their new web domain

NWpostie · Post by **NWpostie** » 05 Jun 2017, 23:04

I'm staying out of it, it's not my job to canvas people to vote in a particular way, politics have a way of upsetting people.

Post by **PHARRY** » 06 Jun 2017, 14:28

I can't believe that theCWU would ask postpeople to canvass customers it's not our job to get people to vote it's up to them not us