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Post workers have begun a ballot over a proposed deal to end the long-running dispute between their CWU union and Royal Mail.

Serious objections to the proposed deal to end the dispute in Royal Mail have been heard at a series of briefings for CWU union reps.

The first conference of CWU reps in workplaces where the union is not yet recognised epitomised the spirit of the new, young and combative activists in the movement.

MondayOrganising meeting with people from the local theatre, trade unionists from the CWU and Unison, students and residents. TuesdayMet women representing Kosovan Albanian, Rwandan, Turkish, Chinese and Asian groups. We agreed to produce leaflets in different languages and speak at a 400-strong Kosovan Albanian meeting.WednesdayAttended a London Metropolitan University lecturers’ meeting. They agreed to organise support. Students there are organising weekly UAF stalls.ThursdayFifty students attended University of East London UAF meeting. The president of the Isla

Royal Mail bosses in Wimbledon, south London, have sacked Kevin Tester, a CWU postal workers’ union rep. He is also a part-time soldier awaiting deployment to Afghanistan.

A CWU member at the West Park Delivery Office in Plymouth has written an inspiring report on how they won the reinstatement of their union rep.

Rank and file postal workers in the CWU union have produced a statement on the state of the dispute, which lays out the type of deal the union should be fighting for.

Jane Loftus, a Socialist Workers Party (SWP) member and the president of the CWU post workers’ union, voted to accept the interim agreement in the post dispute and to call off the strikes.

Were the post workers’ CWU union leaders right to call off our planned strikes at Royal Mail last week?

The decision by CWU union leaders to sign an interim agreement and call off nationwide postal strikes was a serious mistake.

Leaders of the CWU postal workers’ union have suspended national strike action planned for today and Monday of next week following a new offer from Royal Mail.

The postal workers have not been defeated or crushed. Instead their fightback has been curtailed by the CWU union leaders’ decision to conclude an "interim agreement" and halt the action.