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Joined June 2011
Liz Truss elected to lead the country by 81,326 votes. Postal workers voting for strike action 85,100. Remember that when they come at unions about democracy in the coming days.
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We apologise for Royal Mail Groups greed and the impact it is having on postal workers and customers across the UK. If they could find a way of giving workers a share of the £758m profit, £600 shareholder payments, £2m exec bonuses and £2m exec share awards then we can sort this.
We apologise for the impact the CWU's industrial action is having on our customers. We are doing all we can to minimise any delays and keep people, businesses and the country connected. Please see our full statement here:
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WE NEED EVERY SINGLE FOLLOWER TO RT THIS. We have spotted something during Simon Thompson’s car crash interview on the BBC this morning. Having zoomed in, someone is in the room writing answers on a board for him. Pack your bags, Thompson. It’s time to go. #StandByYourPost
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Dry your eyes mate.
We’re disappointed that members of CWU have voted in favour of industrial action. This ballot result does not necessarily mean there will be industrial action. We will continue to seek an agreement. You can continue to send your parcels and letters -
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Royal Mail have publicly admitted they have a £1.7bn ‘war chest’ to destroy postal workers. Admin team sat here thinking how utterly inspirational, uplifting and humbling it is that 115,000 CWU members still refuse to bow down 🥹 . RT if you will stand with your postie forever.
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115,000 postal workers strike tomorrow. Please comment, retweet and like if you have their backs. #StandByYourPost.
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Leave it, Jez. They’re not worth it
@CWUnews What a brilliant idea of universal free broadband giving everybody equal access to communication and information. My information is that it is very popular.
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Tomorrow @RishiSunak will launch an all out attack on the right to strike. RT if you stand with every single union that chooses to make a stand and fight on behalf of their members. It’s time to pick a side.
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Thank you @Matthew_Wright for completely exposing what postal workers are facing in the dispute with Royal Mail. We need everyone to see this clip. #StandByYourPost
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Due to Royal Mail Groups attempts to destroy your local postal workers and the service they provide, today will be the final day of post before Christmas. We hope you understand what it has taken for postal workers to make this call. They need your support. #StandByYourPost.
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Remember this when they come at unions about democracy in the coming days.
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🚨BREAKING: POSTAL WORKERS HAVE MADE HISTORY. CWU members in Royal Mail Group have delivered the biggest ever return in a major national strike ballot. YES 95.9% . TURNOUT 77.3% . Simply stunning. #WeAreStillHere
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We have just announced a further 19 days of strike action across Royal Mail Group in the lead up to Christmas. It’s now or never to save the Royal Mail. Our members are going to need you more than ever. RT if you back them. #StandByYourPost.
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We have lost over 700 followers today. Clearly something is going on with Twitter. And at a time when our postal and telecom workers need support like never before. Please RT this, follow us and help get the message out there. #StandByYourPost.
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No tears when postmasters were tragically taking their own lives due to stress. No tears when postmasters were being jailed. No tears when postmasters had their whole communities turning against them. Tears now are too late. Paula Vennells must be held to account.
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Tomorrow 115,000 brave postal workers will strike and take on the multi millionaire bosses once again. They kept the country connected during the pandemic and now need your support. RT if you stand with your postie. #StandByYourPost.
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Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson getting absolutely roasted in Parliament. Watch the highlights here 👇
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The unions are ruining the holiday period. The would be no holiday periods, weekends or time off if it wasn’t for the unions.
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86,000 CWU members voted for strike action in Royal Mail Group. 356 MPs voted for Sunak to be PM. We aren’t taking lessons from the Tories on democracy. Every single person needs to stand against their attacks on the right to strike.
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BREAKING 🚨40,000 CWU members across BT Group will strike for the first time since 1987 on 29th July and 1st August. £1.3bn profit, £750m to shareholders, CEO £3.5m (32% increase) and customers bills up 9.3%. They’re using Swiss banks whilst our members use foodbanks. Not anymore.
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Almost 800,000 views on us exposing Royal Mail Group CEO Simon Thompson having an aide in the room writing down answers for him whilst he’s live on the BBC. Let’s get it to one million so everyone sees what postal workers are dealing with.
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The S*n are in financial trouble. The S*n costs less than a first class stamp. So do the right thing:. Buy a first class stamp and write a letter to your nan 👍.
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PLEASE RT this thread. Today Royal Mail Group have called together every postal worker in the UK and announced they want to make 10,000 redundancies. This is nothing but an intimidation tactic aimed at crushing the spirit of our members #StandByYourPost.
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From tomorrow 115,000 postal workers take their 15th and 16th days strike. Royal Mail are making no genuine attempt to resolve the dispute and want to starve people back to work, destroy their terms and conditions and rip up a 500 year old service. RT if you back your postie.
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Seems Keir Starmer has forgotten he wrote to @DaveWardGS when he stood for Labour leader committing to renationalise Royal Mail and other industries. Think it’s time for us to dig that letter out.
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115,000 Postal Workers are back on strike tomorrow. They are fighting for their lives. They need to know they have your support. RT if you are backing your local postie and their fight against a vicious employer. #StandByYourPost.
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A message to the public from a Postie: 'For 500 years we've been there for you, now we need you to be there for us.'. #StandByYourPost
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Here’s a tester. Royal Mail are telling our members that you as the public want your mail up to 3 hours later each day. They say that’s the ‘customer trends’ . RT this if you don’t want your mail later and you don’t want your posties start time changed.
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Grant Shapps once again trying to play worker against worker. Pathetic. This isn’t rail workers vs nurses. This isn’t postal workers vs bus drivers. This is workers vs the bosses.
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Today Royal Mail declared war on your local postie. Ripping up terms and conditions, coming for the union and destroying the service. Still our members will not bow down. RT if you stand with your postal worker and will back them whatever it takes. #StandByYourPost.
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Our person of the day is this young female bus driver. In the face of hate and aggressive from Tommy Robinson ‘supporters’ she just smiled back at hate. Your strength is inspiring
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This is going to be one hell of a week for postal workers. Facing an out of control CEO and threats to their job, terms and conditions. They take strike action on Thursday and Friday. Are you with management or your postie? Pick a side. RT if you back postal workers.
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ROYAL MAIL GROUP STRIKE BALLOT RESULT . WE DID IT. 97.6% YES . 77% turnout. 115,000 members. 1,500 workplaces. Stunning. Thank you to every single one of our members and representatives . #HomeToVote
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U Ok hun?.
Royal Mail is very disappointed that CWU members have voted in favour of taking industrial action. Read our full statement here:
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🚨BREAKING: We have served notice on Royal Mail Group for a 24 hour strike commencing for all shifts starting after 12:30pm on Thursday 16th February. We cannot and will not sit back as they destroy our members jobs. #WeAreStillHere.
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Everything King Charles says here is right. This is why we cannot give in. This is what we are fighting for. It is time for the British public to stand up and defend their postie. We cannot and will not let the privateers destroy us or the service. #StandByYourPost
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So here we are. 40,000 CWU members in BT and Openreach strike for the first time in 35 years today. Let’s do this.
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Help us counter the Royal Mail Group lies. Post this graphic every single time you see a journalist or manager commenting on their position. #StandByYourPost
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🚨BREAKING: Royal Mail Group CEO Simon Thompson has been recalled by the Select Committee for misleading Parliament. Royal Mail Group Chairman Keith Williams has also been called to appear. #WeAreStillHere #VoteYes.
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BT CEO Philip Jansen got 32% pay rise this year taking his package to £3.5m. BT and Openreach workers are using foodbanks and some can’t afford fuel to get to work. Jansen is refusing to negotiate despite our huge ballot result. RT if you will back the workers when they strike.
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Wow - incredible. With just 5 working days notice to mobilise 115,000 members across 1,500 workplaces for the second national ballot in a month we have absolutely smashed it again. 72.2% Turnout. 98.7 % YES. Up the postal workers
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Damn right we do.
KEMI BADENOCH: Unions want to undo all the work we have done in the last 14 years
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RT if you back your striking postie who is standing up against the greed of the business elite. Your support means everything to them. #StandByYourPost.
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RT if you are right behind your striking postie tomorrow. This is a fight to save the postal service of the UK. Are you with your local postperson or are you with the millionaire bosses? . #StandByYourPost.
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Good luck to all 500,000 striking workers across the UK today. The CWU stands with every one of you.
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Darren Jones MP. He has held power to account - twice. Thank you from every postal worker in the UK. Not all politicians are the same. #WeAreStillHere
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CEO of Royal Mail Group (one of them), Simon Thompson has written to all non-operational managers today offering them a free days leave and £150 in shopping vouchers to break our members picket lines next Friday and Saturday. Embarrassing. Shameful. Desperate. #StandByYourPost.
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Can somebody please check on Ricky Macauley because he���s been humiliated on national television #StandByYourPost
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This is a very special genre. MP of a party who voted for the privatisation of Royal Mail complaining about the impact of the privatisation of Royal Mail. Craig, management told our members to leave these letters and concentrate on parcels. That’s the Royal Mail you created.
Some #Christmas post arrived today. Dated 11.12.22. @CWUnews you’re causing permanent reduction of @RoyalMail as people decide not worth cost for service that doesn’t work & businesses move to alternative means & electronic. Then you’ll wonder why when redundancies come in 2023.
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🚨BREAKING: CWU can reveal that Royal Mail managers will receive up to 20% of their salaries as a bonus payment for introducing unagreed changes and forcing through redundancies. From a company claiming to have no money. Sickening. Be ready for the strikes. #StandByYourPost
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Royal Mail Group have tabled a list of proposals today which would rip up the terms and conditions of our members. We must now hold a second ballot to cover us legally. We have to meet 115,000 members across 1,500 workplaces in less than a week. RT if you have our backs.
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We hear Royal Mail Group are planning to release a series of comms from customers and business owners attacking the union and workers for taking strike action next week. If you back your postie taking action please comment below and let us know why. #StandByYourPost.
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It’s funny the media want to talk about days lost to strike action when they’ve never wanted to talk about lives lost because of austerity, livelihoods lost because of the destruction of industries, dignity lost because of poverty or hope lost because of the state of this country.
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Royal Mail Group are coming at postal workers with later starts, less sick pay, removing allowances, introducing strike breaking agency and management force, moving work to competitors to intimidate CWU members and more. RT if you stand with your postal workers.
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The London rally will live long in the memories of everyone who was there. The sight of our Muslim members organising a prayer together was so powerful. This is what the working class is. Jummah Mubarak. #StandByYourPost
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Royal Mail yesterday announced they will make 10,000 redundancies as a result of our members taking strike action. This is the country we now live In. We can report that postal workers have never been more together. We strike again on Thursday. Stand with us. #StandByYourPost.
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General Secretary Dave Ward absolutely smashing it on BBC Breakfast. Watch Thompsons interview. Watch Dave’s. Then pick your side. #StandByYourPost
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Royal Mail Group who are pleading poverty have today offered Parcelforce workers up to £300 to break next weeks strikes. RT if you think this is an absolute disgrace and will stand shoulder to shoulder with your postal worker for however long it takes. #StandByYourPost.
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Thank you to @ManpowerGroupUK who have rejected any attempts for their agency workers to be used to break the CWU strikes in Royal Mail Group. We now need this from every agency in the UK. Huge blow to Royal Mail. #StandByYourPost.
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In the next 10 days we will have 170,000 members across Royal Mail Group, Openreach, BT and Post Office on strike. We are going to deliver picket lines in every Town and City in the UK. Our members are ready for this. Solidarity forever.
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It’s freezing. Postal workers are under more pressure than ever. They are struggling financially. They are on strike again tomorrow. Royal Mail are attempting to destroy their terms, conditions and the service they provide. RT this if you stand with them. #StandByYourPost.
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Further to the update this afternoon, we can confirm that within hours of receiving our letter, Royal Mail Group have rejected our attempt to resolve the dispute. The strikes planned for 23/24 December will go ahead. We remain available for further talks facilitated by ACAS.
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To our Royal Mail Group members. You are going to be put under tremendous pressure today by management. Tomorrow we have our say on the picket lines. We just want you to know how proud of you we are. That is all ❤️. #StandByYourPost.
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To all the managers who took a bribe to cross the picket line today - you will never feel what our members felt today. Pride, togetherness, hope, solidarity, dignity and class. We are the CWU and we will never be defeated. #StandByYourPost.
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BREAKING 📰 : Royal Mail Group announce huge profits of £758m. This profit was earned off the backs of our members hard work. RT if you back a no strings attached pay rise for postal workers.
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1.4 million people have now seen Royal Mail Group CEO Simon Thompson caught live on the BBC with an aide writing answers for him on a whiteboard 🤣
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Following the very sad news of the passing of the Queen and out of respect for her service to the country and her family, the union has decided to call off tomorrows planned strike action. Further information and communications will follow.
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These amazing people are postal workers and CWU members who met up ahead of a huge rally of posties in December. They did more to stand up for the rights of working people of this country in one day than you have in your life. Take your racist bile elsewhere.
Crowds of Muslims praying in Parliament Square. Imagine this happening in Mecca. Just saying.
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If you see your postie today please stop them and let them know they have your support. It means the world. RT this so more people get to see it. #StandByYourPost.
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Royal Mail Group have turned down our offer of a meeting with the Chair and CEO. The strikes go ahead. We did not want this but now we cannot take a back step. See you all on the picket lines. We are so proud of you. Let’s do this. #StandByYourPost.
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40,000 BT and Openreach members are striking today. They will not stand by and see their pay fall as the CEO picks up £3.5m #FoodbankPhil.
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Our negotiators are currently in the room with Royal Mail Group and this happens. We need the public to see this so please share as much as you can #StandByYourPost
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If the establishment think we are going to abandon each other then they need to think again. We are the many. They are the few. Striking postal workers in Basingstoke have just joined the @RMTunion picket line to show solidarity. #StandByYourPost
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Solidarity to every striking rail worker in the UK today. There is more than enough money in the rail industry to negotiate the pay rise you deserve and protect your jobs. The CWU stands with you. Always.
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Royal Mail: we will break the spirits of postal workers. They won’t last. Postal workers:
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115,000 postal workers out on strike again today. Let’s go everyone. We are so proud of you #StandByYourPost.
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General Secretary Dave Ward absolutely smashing it on BBC News tonight. We will win this dispute. Get this everywhere and get ready to build for the strikes from tomorrow. We shall not be moved. #StandByYourPost
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Out in this. Making sure you get your mail. Postal workers will save the service with your support. #StandByYourPost
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115,000 postal workers strike again today. We are proud of every single one of them. Get down to a picket line to show your support. #StandByYourPost #EnoughIsEnough.
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