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The CWU union postal executive was meeting this week with calls growing for a national strike ballot. Even more offices are now balloting over local disputes. The latest group includes Plymouth, Stoke and Preston mail centres.

A national CWU forum last week saw around 400 delegates discussing the future of the postal industry.

Royal Mail is set to axe 40,000 workers in a new round of cost cuts, according to the postal workers’ CWU union.

Royal Mail management in Belfast have launched an almost unprecedented assault on CWU union reps.

Northampton Management has launched an attack on seven CWU union members, four of them reps, in the wake of the recent strike.

About 120 ordinary shareholders, CWU union activists and O2 workers protested on Wednesday of last week at the company’s annual general meeting.

Around 1,500 postal workers in Northampton are on strike in a battle for their CWU union’s future.

The debates over the CWU postal and telecom union’s relations with the Labour Party continued to run throughout its conference last week.

About 200 people packed the Respect meeting with George Galloway MP and John Rees at the CWU union conference last week.

The annual conference of the postal and telecom workers’ CWU union came very close to telling the Labour Party that it would cease all funding to the party from 1 November.

A sharp political debate has broken out inside the postal and telecom workers’ CWU union about the Labour Party.

Elections for the postal executive of the CWU union saw left candidates keep their positions. Socialist Worker supporter Jane Loftus was re-elected with one of the best votes, drawing support from all regions of the union.