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CWU TV News gives you the opportunity to catch up on all the latest stories from around the CWU. Our monthly news programme features all the top headlines including comments from CWU members and key CWU Officials. And look out for the on screen icons showing where you can find more in-depth interviews and reports on CWU TV and in the union's digital magazine eVoice.
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CWU TV News | The year that was 2011 RoundUp
31 December 20112011 was a busy year for the CWU and in this Roundup CWUTV looks back over the major stories of the last twelve months across the postal and telecoms industries. These include ongoing campaigns...
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CWU TV News | Dangerous Dogs 'Bite Back' Campaign Update
22 December 2011The unions long running Bite Back campaign gathered momentum this year. And in December, the CWU, supported by a coalition of animal charities, enforcement agencies, trade unions and politicians,...
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CWU News | National Pension Strikes November 2011
06 December 2011On the 30th of November more than two million public sector workers across the country took part in a day of national strikes over the ConDem Governments plans to reforms their pay and pensions...
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CWUTV NEWS | Capita Strike in Darwen
24 November 2011CWUTV visited Darwen to catch up on the ongoing strike action at TV licensing firm Capita due to the companies refusal to negotiate reasonably over workers pay and conditions. (Created November 2011)
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CWU TV News | 'Virgin Media don't be cruel, keep our jobs in Liverpool'
22 November 2011CWUTV joined Merseyside politicians, CWU General Secretary Billy Hayes and workers at Virgin Media's Albert Dock site today to protest at the company's decision to leave Liverpool meaning the loss of...
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CWU TV News | October 2011
01 November 2011CWU TV News brings you the latest news from around the communication industry. This month: Progress on BT Performance Management, CWU continue recruitment campaign, positive news from OfCom on Royal...
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CWU TV News | Strike Action at Capita
19 October 2011Following the refusal of Capita to negotiate over the proposed pay deal for it's workers in the TV Licensing division, workers around the country have staged the first of what could be a wave of...
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CWU TV News | TUC Conference 2011
15 September 2011A quickfire round-up of the important issues affecting CWU members at the 2011 TUC Conference at Congress House in London. (Created September 2011)
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CWU TV News | CWU Humanitarian Aid Convoy: East Europe
13 September 2011In September 2011, the Communication Workers Union Humanitarian Aid charity sent an aid convoy of postal and telecommunication trade union members from Hull on a humanitarian aid mission to deliver...
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CWU TV News | Ed's Epic Everest Challenge
06 September 2011CWU member ED Buckingham has recently returned from climbing the worlds highest mountain. Ed attempted the grueling feat to help raise money for The British Heart Foundation. CWU met with Ed to find...
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CWU TV News | September 2011
01 September 2011Emma Howard brings you all the latest news from around the postal, telecoms and financial services industries in this months CWU TV News. This month CWU mount a recruitment drive at UK Mail, issues...
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CWU TV News | July 2011
18 July 2011Emma Howard brings you all the latest news from around the communications industry in this month's CWU TV News. Watch out for the CWU TV and eVoice icons on screen showing you where you can find more...
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CWU TV News | CWU Humanitarian Aid Charity Run
24 June 2011Five CWU members took on the challenge of a life run by running over 900 miles from John O'Groats to Lands End in aid of CWU's Humanitarian Aid Charity. CWU TV filmed the runners on route and caught...
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CWU TV News | Save Mount Pleasant Nursery
21 June 2011Staff, parents and member of the public protested outside Royal Mail's Mount Pleasant's Mail Centre in London over the closure of it's onsite nursery. Earmarked for closure in the autumn, the company...
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CWU TV News | June 2011
17 June 2011Emma Howard brings you all the latest news from around the communications industry in this month's CWU TV News. Watch out for the CWU TV and eVoice icons on screen showing you where you can find more...
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CWU TV News | ROMEC Strike Action
16 June 2011Over 500 ROMEC employees took strike action recently in a dispute over misuse of tracking technology on company vehicles. It also saw the start of a months ban on overtime and call outs at the...
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CWU TV News | Royal Mail Group Financial Results
15 June 2011Royal Mail Group have announced their financial results for 2010/2011 seeing a fall in profits from £180million to £39 million. The fall is a result of the decline in mail volumes and the Post...
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CWU TV News | Annual Conference 2011 Round up
13 June 2011Bournemouth hosted the CWU Annual Conference at the end of May seeing over a thousand delegates and senior CWU officials debating industrial and political issues. This year saw key note speeches from...
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CWU TV News | Ed Balls Conference 2011 Speech
24 May 2011Highlights from Ed Balls' well recieved speech at Conference 2011 in Bournemouth where he praised the CWU and thanked them for their support of his leadership challenge. He also set out why it was so...
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CWU TV News | May 2011
12 May 2011Emma Howard brings you all the latest news from around the communications industry in this month's CWU TV News. Watch out for the CWU TV and eVoice icons on screen showing you where you can find more...
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CWU TV News | Workers Memorial Garden
11 May 2011CWU unveiled it's Workers Memorial Garden, at the unions flagship Education and Training Centre, Alvescot Lodge in Oxfordshire in April. To commemorate the first official Workers Memorial Day, CWU's...
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CWU TV News | April 2011
06 April 2011Emma Howard brings you the latest headlines from around the CWU this month. CWU TV reports from the TUC March for the Alternative March and Rally in London and from Brighton as part of CWU's Keep The...
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CWU TV News | TUC March For The Alternative - London
01 April 2011CWU TV joined up to half a million people and marched on London as part of the TUC's March For The Alternative campaign. CWU together with other trade unions, political organisations and members of...
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CWU TV News | Post Office Limited Pay Deal Reached
30 March 2011The CWU have reached an agreement with Post Office Limited over pay for staff in Crown Offices around the country and an extention to the guarentee to the network for another year. The overall pay...
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CWU TV News | Keep The Post Public - Brighton
28 March 2011CWU TV News were out and about again in March for CWU's fight to Keep the Post Public. Over 300 people turned out in support of the campaign, on a sunny weekend in Brighton and marched through the...
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CWU TV News | Royal Mail Colleagueshare Scheme
22 March 2011Royal Mail's announcement regarding the Colleagueshare Scheme has been met with anger from CWU's Deputy General Sectary Dave Ward. The company anticipate the next valuation of the scheme will see the...
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CWU TV News | London Mail Centre Closures
22 March 2011CWU is outraged at Royal Mail's decision to close two Mail Centres in London resulting in the loss of hundreds of jobs and the possibility of compulsory redundancies. It will also see Mount...
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CWU TV News | iPSL Ballot Appeal
21 March 2011With possible strike action looming, CWU have finalised an agreement with iPSL over the future of its final salary pension scheme. After negotiations CWU has secured a pay rise for all CWU members at...
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CWU TV News | UK Mail Recruitment
07 March 2011The CWU maybe fighting the privitisation of Royal Mail but it does not mean postal workers in private sector companies do not have the right to descent working conditions. The CWU is increasing...
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CWU TV News | Post Office Ballot Regional Meetings
03 March 2011CWU has severed notice to Post Office Limited for a strike ballot among its 4,000 counters staff. The ballot affects staff at crown post offices across the UK in a dispute over pay, job security and...
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CWU TV News | Keep The Post Public - Beeston, Nottingham
02 March 2011CWU TV News were out and about again in February and joined Robin Hood and his merry union men in CWU's fight to Keep the Post Public. Over 500 people turned out in support of the campaign, despite...
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CWU TV News | February 2011
02 March 2011Welcome to the new look CWU TV News bringing you the latest stories from around the communications industry. This month includes CWU's ongoing Keep the Post Public Campaign, impending strike action...
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CWU TV News | Recognition at Adecco
01 March 2011After five years of hard work, CWU has won recognition at Adecco. The staff based at the LIverpool call centre and helpdesk now have the right to negotiate pay and working conditions with reps given...
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CWU TV News | Crown Post Office Dispute - Ballot Announcement
21 February 2011Andy Fury CWU Assistant Secreatry tells members why it is important to VOTE YES in the upcoming Crown Post Offices Strike Ballot. The ballot opens on Friday 18th February 2011 and closes on Friday...
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CWU TV News | March For The Alternative: Saturday 26th March 2011
15 February 2011TUC's March For The Alternative National March and Rally will take place on Saturday 26th March in London. All trade unionists along with other organisations and groups will come together to stand up...
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CWU TV News | Keep The Post Public - Birmingham
31 January 2011Birmingham saw over 500 postal workers, labour supports and other trade union activist come together to march against privatisation of Royal Mail as part of CWU's Keep The Post Public campaign....
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CWU TV News | BT Barrow Call Centre Saved
25 January 2011After six months of tough negotiations and campaigning by CWU and the local community, BT has reversed its decision and is to keep its Directory Enquires Call Centre in Barrow-In-Furness open saving...
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CWU TV News | Keep The Post Public - Kingston
25 January 2011CWU's Keep The Post Public Campaign came to the Royal Borough of Kingston in Southwest London this month, with over 1000 people including postal workers, friends, family and local supporters marching...
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CWU TV News | O2 Restructure and Pensions
21 December 2010CWU have meet with O2 following an announcement that the company are undertaking a major restructure to radically change its operating model right across the company. Sally Bridge spoke to CWU TV...
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CWU TV News | BT Pensions Change
21 December 2010With changes in the BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) as a result of government changing the way pensions are calculated, CWU TV speaks to Nigel Cotgrove, CWU Assistant Secretary about the change from RPI to...
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CWU TV News | BT Call Centre Closure Barrow-In-Furness
21 December 2010Losing your job at Christmas is the last thing on your mind, but for a group of CWU Members this is a reality. CWU TV travelled up to Barrow-In-Furness to speak to employees out the closure and Sally...
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CWU TV News | Keep The Post Public - Norwich
07 December 2010On a busy Christmas shopping weekend in Norwich, union activists and members of the public took part in the Norfolk Coalition Against The Cuts March and Rally. CWU were there with the Keep The Post...
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CWU TV News | Keep The Post Public - Hednesford
07 December 2010CWU TV headed to Hednesford, near Cannock in Staffordshire to join union activists in their fight to keep the post public. Members of the public signed petitions and postcards addressed to their...
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CWU TV News | Keep The Post Public - MP's Support
24 November 2010MP's, Postal Workers and Union Officials meet at a London Post Office near Westminster to pledge their support to the Keep The Post Public Campaign. John Denham, Shadow Secretary for Business,...
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CWU TV News | October 2010
26 October 2010CWU TV News brings you the latest news from around the communication industry. This month CWU attended TUC Congress and four party conferences with Royal Mail privatisation top of the agenda. Billy...
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CWU TV News | The Women Chainmakers Festival 2010
07 October 2010Billy Hayes attends The Women Chainmakers Festival held on Saturday 18th September at The Black Country Living Museum and hears Stacey Blythe perform the Chainmakers song backed by the Nottingham...
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CWU TV News | Liberal Democrats Party Conference 2010 - Liverpool
06 October 2010CWU delegates took their Keep the Post Public Campaign to the Liberal Democrats Party Conference in Liverpool this month. Billy Hayes, CWU General Secretary and Dave Ward, CWU Deputy General...
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CWU TV News | CWU Cyclists Support International Solidarity
05 October 2010CWU members and Trade Union Activists from around the country gathered at CWU's Education and Training Centre, Alvescot Lodge for the 4th Annual Cyclo Sportive to raise money for the CWU's...
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CWU TV News | TUC Congress 2010 - Royal Mail Emergency Motion
24 September 2010CWU tabled an emergency motion at this years TUC Congress in Manchester which was carried, with CWU getting the backing from all trade unions. Find out what Dave Ward, CWU Deputy General Secretary,...
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CWU TV News | TUC Conference 2010 - Manchester
21 September 2010Manchester hosted the 2010 TUC Congress this month and CWU TV was there to capture all the action. Top of the agenda was the fight againist public sector cuts, with unions uniting against the...
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CWU TV News | September 2010
14 September 2010CWU TV brings you the latest stories from around the communications industry. This month we talk to Billy Hayes about the privatisation of Royal Mail, Andy Kerr about job losses in BT and Tony Rupa...
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CWU TV News | O2 Pay Ballot Result
20 August 2010CWU members have voted by 4 to 1 in favour to back at 2-year pay deal at O2 worth 5.25%. Employees at the mobile company, who are represented by the union, will receive 2.5% this year, back dated to...
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CWU TV News | BT Pay Ballot Accepted
06 August 2010After months of tough negotiations, CWU members have backed a three year pay deal worth 9.3%. Members voted overwhelmingly in favour, with 86% voting yes for the deal, which is fully consolidated and...
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CWU TV News | BT Close Call Centre in Barrow-in-Furness
06 August 2010CWU is angered by BT's decision to close its Directory Enquires call centre in Barrow-in-Furness affecting at least 52 jobs. Staff have been given 6 months notice on the site closure, with BT failing...
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CWU TV News | August 2010
30 July 2010CWU TV brings you the latest stories from around the communications industry. This month we talk to Andy Kerr, Deputy General Secretary Telecoms about the BT Pay Deal, CWU Nominates Ed Balls for...
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CWU TV News | Ed Balls - CWU's nominated Labour Party Leader
21 July 2010CWU is nominating Ed Balls to be the next leader of the Labour Party. Following a hustings event in Central London, the CWU National Executive decided he was the right candidate to lead the Labour...
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CWU TV News | Labour Leadership Hustings
15 July 2010CWU hosted a Labour Leadership Hustings at One Great George Street in Central London this week. Part-privatisation of Royal Mail and Digital Britain were the top issues during the hustings, which...
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CWU TV News | BT Pay Deal Agreed
09 July 2010CWU has secured a new 3 year pay deal with BT worth 9.3% for all staff represented by the union. CWU TV caught up with Andy Kerr, CWU Deputy General Secretary Telecoms at Millbank in London in...
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CWU TV News | BT Ballot Cancelled
06 July 2010CWU have announced they have cancelled the ballot for industrial action in BT after legal advice. However, BT have made an offer to CWU for further negotiations and the union will take up that offer...
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CWU TV News | July 2010
06 July 2010The latest stories from around the communications industry in July include CWU’s Annual Conference in Bournemouth, Santander extend cheque processing contract in Bootle, new Royal Mail Chief...
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CWU TV News | Bob Gibson - Introduction of Door-to-Door
25 June 2010CWU TV caught up with Bob Gibson, CWU Assistant Secretary outside Royal Mail's West End Sorting Office in Central London, to find out more about the introduction of Door-to-Door into normal workload...
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CWU TV News | BT Pay Dispute Demo
21 June 2010Over 150 CWU members staged a demo outside BT Centre in London to mark the first day of the BT Pay Dispute ballot. Brandishing placards and waving CWU flags, demonstrators marched around the building...
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CWU TV News | Conference 2010 - BT Ballot Announcement
01 June 2010An emergency motion was heard at the CWU Telecoms Annual Conference in Bournemouth this month where delegates representing over almost 60,000 staff at BT have voted unanimously in favour to hold a...
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CWU TV News | Conference 2010 - Royal Mail Part-Privatisation
28 May 2010CWU General Sectary Billy Hayes, spoke to CWU TV at their Annual Conference about the recent news that the new coalition government have plans to part privatise Royal Mail outlined in the Queen's...
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CWU TV News | BT Pay Dispute "Because We're Worth More" Campaign - Stockport
20 May 2010CWU have launched the "Because We're Worth More" this week to highlight the current pay dispute with BT. Branch meetings have been held across the country where National Executive members have been...
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CWU TV News | May 2010
12 May 2010Welcome to the new look CWU TV News. The latest stories from around the CWU this month includes postal workers voting in favour for the business transformation document 2010, 375 job losses at...
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CWU TV News | Door-to-Door Presentation - Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond
30 April 2010Payment for Door to Door is a key element of the Business Transformation 2010 document and in this video Bob Gibson explains in detail why he believes this is the best deal that could have been...
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CWU TV News | "It's Time for Change" Road Show - London
30 April 2010Dave Ward and his team meet Reps from South Central, South Eastern and Anglia Division at Conway Hall in Bloomsbury and finally the London Division at Friends Meeting House in Euston. The road show...
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CWU TV News | "It's Time for Change" Road Show - Manchester
30 April 2010Following on from successful meetings in Bristol and Birmingham the CWU "It's Time for Change" road show arrives in Manchester where Dave Ward and the Assistant Secretaries hope for another round of...
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CWU TV News | "It's Time for Change" Road Show - Bristol
30 April 2010CWU have hit the road with the ''It's Time for Change'' Road Show. First stop was Bristol, where Dave Ward and the Assistant Secretaries meet with CWU Branch Reps to discuss the postal agreement...
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CWU TV News | March 2010
30 April 2010This month includes, information on the recent ACAS facilitated deal between the CWU and Royal Mail. Good news from Westminster as the Government agrees to consult on amendments to the Dangerous Dogs...
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CWU TV News | Vodafone Job Losses
30 April 2010Vodafone have announced 375 jobs are to be lost at their Contact Centre in Stoke. Vodafone have decided not to call a 90 day consolation period and have, as CWU TV understand, held meetings with the...
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CWU TV News | BT Third Q Financial Results and Pension Funding
30 April 2010Andy Kerr CWU Deputy General Secretary responds to BT's announcement of its continued commitment to funding the BT Pension Scheme. (Created February 2010)
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CWU TV News | February 2010
30 April 2010This month CWU News looks at all the big stories from around the CWU. These include the progress of the Digital Britain report and the CWU's response to the recent announcement of the Conservative...
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CWU TV News | Time to Deliver Campaign - Royal Mail Pension Deficit
30 April 2010Hundreds of CWU branch representatives attended parliament to raise support for the CWU's Time to Deliver campaign. Time to Deliver aims to make the government live up to it's manifesto pledge to...
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CWU TV News | Orange Closes Bristol Call Centre
29 April 2010Following the sudden announcement that 300 staff at Orange are to loose their jobs CWU Head of Communications Kevin Slocombe talks to Clare Wright Branch chair of SW and Thames Valley Branch outside...
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CWU TV News | December 2009
29 April 2010CWU TV news provides a look at some of the top stories affecting CWU members this month including comment from members of the National Executive. Featuring news of the successful talks surrounding...
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CWU TV News | October 2009
29 April 2010CWU TV news provides a look at some of the top stories affecting CWU members this month including comment from members of the National Executive. Featuring news of the National Postal Ballot, the TUC...
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CWU TV News | Royal Mail Post Strike Press Conference
29 April 2010The postal strikes planned for Friday 6th November and Monday 9th November have been called off. CWU TV was at the TUC Headquarters in London, to hear the announcement and catch up with Dave Ward who...
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CWU TV News | Royal Mail Dispute - Media Update
29 April 2010CWU Head of Communications, Kevin Slocombe speaks to CWU TV about what is happening within the media around the strikes. (Created November 2009)
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CWU TV News | July 2009
29 April 2010Emma Howard provides a rundown of the top news stories from around the CWU this month. Including the CWU conference in Bournemouth, Keeping the Public Posted, the progress with the BT Pay deal and...
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CWU TV News | May 2009
29 April 2010Headline stories from around the CWU for May 2009 including the launch of the Keeping the Public Posted campaign, Tensions at Carphone Warehouse, BT pay talks on a knife edge, Airwave situation...
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CWU TV News | Keep the Post Public - Campaign Update
29 April 2010CWUTV takes a look at some of the demonstrations and support for the CWU Keep the Post Public campaign to date. We report back from the rallies held in Westminster and Wolverhampton and hear from...
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CWU TV News | Keep the Post Public - Wolverhampton
29 April 2010Following on from a successful Westminster campaign the the CWU are now taking the Keep the Post Public Campaign around the country. In March they held a very successful rally in Bilston...
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CWU TV News | Keep the Post Public - Geraldine Smith
29 April 2010Political and Trade Union figures spoke in defence of keeping the post a public service to a highly animated audience of hundreds of postal workers supporters and the general public. The CWU welcomed...
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CWU TV News | Keep the Post Public - Tony Benn
29 April 2010Political and Trade Union figures spoke in defence of keeping the post a public service to a highly animated audience of hundreds of postal workers supporters and the general public. The CWU were...
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CWU TV News | Keep the Post Public - Billy Hayes
29 April 2010Political and Trade Union figures spoke in defence of keeping the post a public service to a highly animated audience of hundreds of postal workers, supporters, and the general public. CWU General...
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CWU TV News | December 2008
29 April 2010Your round-up of the top headlines from around the CWU for December 2008. Including the CWU's response to current BT Job losses, a report on the Romec strikes, the demand for fair treatment for...
