Atlanta-area postal worker dies on the job
The death of Shannon Barnes comes as Postal workers across the US face brutal exploitation.
Patrick Smith, Matthew Taylor•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee is organising workers against Royal Mail’s attacks, for the defence of terms and conditions, an end to all job cuts and to defeat victimisations. We are opposed to the Communication Workers Union bureaucracy, which acts as Royal Mail’s partner. Information on the committee can be found here. We are affiliated to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
Upcoming Zoom meeting: Sunday September 15, 7pm
The next online meeting of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee will take place on Sunday September 15, at 7pm.
Royal Mail workers are invited to attend an online meeting called by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (PWRFC) to discuss a collective fightback against plans by Royal Mail and EP Group for a major assault on jobs, wages and conditions.
The CWU is colluding with the Starmer government and Kretinsky over the take-over bid behind our backs. The rank-and-file must develop a strategy to challenge this and fight back.
Management safety violations preceded crash of UPS driver who suffered heat stroke behind the wheel, co-worker says
The non-fatal crash followed the deaths of two other UPS workers in the Dallas, Fort Worth area, including driver Luis Grimaldo on August 6.
Omri Wolfe•
Report to the SEP (US) Eighth National Congress
The Socialist Equality Party’s fight to build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, 2022-2024
We are publishing here the report to the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Tom Hall. The congress was held from August 4 to August 9, 2024.
Tom Hall•
Rural mail carriers inform WSWS of mail volume drop during RRECS route evaluation
Mail volumes are kept artificially low to justify unrealistic workloads.
Omri Wolfe•
Jane Wise•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Penny Smith•
our reporters•
Reinstate all victimised workers!
Royal Mail workers denounce stitch up of reps and members by the Communication Workers Union in Falconer Review
It is an obscenity that the livelihoods of fighters for the working class are threatened. Those who should face the axe are the pro-company bureaucracy responsible for the betrayal of those they were meant to represent.
Tony Robson•
“The CWU Executive led by Ward and Furey has betrayed each of you:” A victimised rep at Royal Mail speaks on Falconer Review
The WSWS is publishing an appeal to the rank-and-file from a victimised Communication Workers Union rep responding to the rigged outcome of the review of mass victimisations during the year long dispute at Royal Mail.
Tony Robson•
Falconer Review of victimised Royal Mail workers: CWU delivers a travesty of justice
With all terms of reference agreed behind closed doors by Royal Mail, the CWU and Falconer, the review was only “independent” from union members who were denied any say on the matter.
Tony Robson•
Reinstate all victimised reps and postal workers! End the CWU-Lord Falconer conspiracy at Royal Mail!
Since July 2022, more than 400 union reps and postal workers have been sacked or suspended in the largest number of victimisations since the 1984-85 miners’ strike.
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Postal workers denounce mass sackings at Royal Mail’s Prenton Delivery Office
Royal Mail workers in the Wirral spoke out in defence of their sacked colleagues. One postie said, “I think people who got sacked were targeted. They’ve not gone after everyone. They are picking out people who are going against the grain.”
Our reporters•
Royal Mail workers describe wave of victimisations and bullying: “Our lives have been devastated”
“My husband was dismissed in June for totally made-up charges by his bosses. He had over 31 years’ service and an unblemished record.”
Our reporters•
Royal Mail’s new regime: PDAs used to sack workers for tea break at local pub
The sackings at Prenton are a direct outcome of the national agreement between the Communication Workers’ Union and Royal Mail which includes the use of PDA data for performance management.
Laura Tiernan•
CWU betrayal at Royal Mail: Draw the lessons and organise the fightback
Any discussion of the way forward must involve a review of the essential lessons of the year-long dispute.
Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee meeting draws lessons of CWU Royal Mail betrayal and discusses fightback strategy
The dispute’s outcome has exposed the lie peddled by “activist” groups such as Postal Workers Say Vote No that the CWU leadership could be pressured to reverse their rotten agreement with the company.
Our reporter•
CWU imposes historic betrayal of postal workers as Royal Mail agreement accepted
Dave Ward’s depiction of the ballot as an exercise in democracy is a travesty. The CWU bureaucracy waged a vicious and targeted campaign against all those advocating a No vote.
Laura Tiernan•
Royal Mail workers indict CWU leadership for rotten sellout of their year-long fight
“Ward and his overpaid sidekicks are throwing away rights won by previous generations. Their names will live on in ignominy.”
Our reporter•
Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Our reporter•
Laura Tiernan•
Statement by the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Our reporters•
“The power needs to be in all the workers’ hands”: Highlights from online Q&A with Will Lehman, candidate for UAW president
On August 27, Lehman hosted an online Q and A, explaining his campaign’s perspective of building a rank-and-file movement and uniting workers internationally.
Will Lehman•
Build the UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
In this the founding statement of the Committee, which was founded in a meeting held last weekend, rank-and-file UPS workers call for workers to “to organize ourselves—not to 'support' the bargaining committee and to cheerlead for them, but to enforce our democratic will, and position ourselves to countermand the inevitable sellout.”
The UPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Dana paid shareholders $57 million last year, but where is our “profit sharing”?
Dana workers across the US noticed as March 31, the date by which Appendix P of the contract says Dana must pay “profit sharing,” passed without workers receiving much needed income. We, the rank-and-file, are demanding answers as to why we did not get paid.
Dana Workers’ Rank-and-File Committee•
“The union declares the contract struggle over, but we’re just getting started!”
Lively discussion at online meeting of the Postal Action Committee in Germany
The second online public meeting of the Postal Action Committee unanimously passed a resolution that begins with the words, “The second ballot was one big scam to push through cuts in real wages.”
our reporters•
Jim Franklin•
The Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
NHS FightBack•
London Bus Rank-and-File Committee•
Will Lehman•
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