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CWU delegates vote to end 32 years of ‘undemocratic’ consensus decision-making
Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, Scotland, December 15, 2022
THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) is to abandon consensus decision-making after conference delegates branded it “undemocratic.”
The system, which allows any branch to veto decisions, has been in place at divisional meetings for 32 years, though not elsewhere in the union.
Gloucestershire delegate Billy Hunt, who moved the motion, said: “I just thought this was a tidying-up exercise.”
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