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POSTIES with minor injuries or illnesses who can’t do delivery work should be given different tasks indoors instead of being signed off sick, postal workers have said.
Delegates at the CWU’s conference in Bournemouth voted overwhelmingly to ask their leadership to negotiate a deal with Royal Mail to formalise this.
Workers are often instructed to take time off work when there is different work that can be done.
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
Royal Mail’s job quality has plummeted, with gruelling hours, two-tier pay, intense surveillance, and poor work-life balance for postal workers — but our union is fighting back, writes CWU branch secretary JOHN CARSON
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart