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The CWU union is holding briefings of workplace reps across Britain this week as the start of a fresh campaign against privatisation and liberalisation.

Anti-racism Congress passed a motion opposing racism in football was a motion from the Professional Footballers Association. The CWU communication union moved an amendment which called for the TUC to organise a national event involving Unite Against Fascism.

Over 700 workers attended the CWU union’s annual conference in Bournemouth this week.

Hundreds of TV licensing workers struck for a third time on Friday, in a dispute between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Capita.

The CWU union’s first new-style decision-making Policy Forum discussed the issue of pensions last Thursday.

The CWU union is calling more strikes at the Romec engineering and facilities company. Over 550 engineers are planning a nationwide 48‑hour walkout from midnight on Thursday 20 July.

•Delegates at last week’s CWU union conference passed a motion against police tactics on recent demonstrations.

CWU postal conference has unanimously voted for postal workers nationally to actively support CWU members in London. London has just voted to strike against closures and redundancies.

The mood at the CWU union conference in Bournemouth was lifted when delegates voted unanimously to support the call for a general strike. This makes it the fifth union to do so.

Hundreds of people from across the Midlands are set to join with trade unionists on Saturday of next week as part of a fight for jobs in Stoke on Trent.

The post workers’ CWU union has called a demonstration for jobs and against the British National Party (BNP) in Stoke-on-Trent.

About 1,000 CWU union members and their supporters marched through Beeston in Nottingham on Saturday of last week (see right).