Paddy Magill

For @CWUnews Branches LtB 135/26 has just been issued containing several Standing Orders Reports for this year's Conference.

For Attention of @CWUnews Postal Branches LtB 117/26 contains this year's Postal Agenda.

@CWUnews LtB 095/26 issued containing General Conference Agenda.

For attention of @CWUnews Postal Branches and Committees submissions for this year's Postal Conference close midday Thursday 19th March (LtB 022/26 refers).

For @CWUnews Branches and Regional Sub-Committees submission of motions to General Conference closes noon today 5th March (LtB 014/26 refers) excepting Motions to Amend NEC Special Report which close Noon 16th (LtB 060/26).

@BritainElects 'Too close to call' could come down to which part of Constituency got most rain today.

The Britain Predicts final forecast for Gorton and Denton, complete with ranges: GRN: 31% (25-38%) REF: 30% (30-33%) LAB: 29% (22-34%) Drilldown, including what built it: newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

‘Do you think it might stick in the craw to hear a hereditary peer complain about extra employment rights?’ @Lewis_Goodall challenges the Conservatives’ Lord Lucas for trying to change the government’s Employment Rights Bill.

The front page of today’s Irish News 🗞️

@TheEconomist Invaded by Tanzania, and end up in exile in Saudi Arabia?

Expelling Asians from Uganda was popular. How did it work out? economist.com/culture/2025/1…

UPDATE FOR ROYAL MAIL GROUP MEMBERS CWU members will be aware of a communication issued yesterday by Royal Mail confirming they will no longer be seeking any further deployment of USO reform until 2026. This is a position the union communicated many weeks ago and it has now been confirmed openly by the business. This is welcomed. Our priority now will be fixing the issues in the USO pilot units. We want to make it clear to members that we will not be reaching an agreement on Royal Mail’s ODM model. It has failed. At the same time, they point to these USO negotiations and their complexity as one reason for the delay in the implementation of resolutions for all outstanding issues from section 5 of the EP Group / CWU agreement - which of course includes the first step in equalising new entrants’ terms and conditions. We do not accept this position. We are also extremely concerned at the continued degrading of quality of service across the UK which culminated last week in a record £21m fine from OFCOM. Every CWU member will know the reality is even worse than this with mail failures being in many cases underreported. This lack of honesty and integrity from Royal Mail continues to be a major concern for everybody who cares about the future of the business. The CWU will continue to make the case in negotiations for the full implementation of the EP Group / CWU agreement at the earliest opportunity with any overdue issues like the new entrants’ terms and conditions being backdated as appropriate. We will also be directly engaging the government now on the lack of progress since the EP Group takeover, the need for a complete overhaul in the way OFCOM regulate the postal industry and how we level the playing field and tackle unfair competition. Our Postal Executive have agreed an extensive engagement plan with our members and all these issues, and we have today shared this with our branches. In the coming days and weeks, we will directly engage with local representatives and members to ensure you are a key part of how we challenge Royal Mail, truly re-set employee and industrial relations and rebuild quality of service in our workplaces. Our final message today is to thousands of new entrants across the country - the best way of delivering equalisation is by you joining the CWU. The company have already shown that if they believe they can avoid improving your terms and conditions they will. We will hold them to the words we have secured, and we will deliver fairness - every new entrant that joins strengthens our hand.

Late Reminder @CWUnews Branches submissions for this year's Young Workers Conference close midday today 6th October.

The CWU National Executive met today and unanimously agreed to nominate Lucy Powell for the role of Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. We put questions to both candidates and Lucy’s responses were by far the most in depth and showed a commitment to work openly with trade unions.

“Trump, I Do Mind Dying: Lessons for U.S. Cities from the Military Occupation of the North of Ireland” - WEBINAR TODAY Join us at 3pm in Ireland, 10am Eastern, for an incredible line up of speakers and discussants. Register free at Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/trump-i-do-m…

Excl: Labour would take a two-point lead over Reform with Andy Burnham as leader, new More In Common polling shows. newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

Best sacking of the week by some distance

Reminder for @CWUnews Branches and Regional Retired Member's Committees, submissions to the Retired Member's Conference close midday Mon 15th September.

@campbellclaret The transformation of the BBC to a video version of the Mail/Express/Telegraph is truly shocking, 'balance' was a key editorial value, once.

Another lovely shiny press release from the Beeb Reform media machine ….Reform UK hopefuls vie to share spotlight with Farage - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@BethRigby Well who amongst us has not 'forgotten' the occasional dwelling? Especially has he spends so little time there, and those tax forms are very tricky to understand, look at poor Jeremy Hunt, Northern women aren't allowed such lapses.

ANALYSIS: Nigel Farage admits he misspoke when he said he owned his house in Clacton in a week that proves how much details really matter news.sky.com/story/nigel-fa…

Up the RMT ! 💪🏽🤣

@RonFilipkowski We have now reached the old style Kremlinologist problem, or perhaps the Trumpian cultural revolution is about to start and MAGA will be cleansed of 'non-believers'?

So we’re supposed to believe that the Truth Social posts over the last couple days that aren’t filled with terrible spelling and grammar, random capitalization and quotation marks where they don’t belong, with no threats or personal insults, are actually being written by Trump?