Openreach Service Delivery Frames Engineers
Your CWU Openreach National Team (ORNT) is extremely disappointed to advise you that Openreach have notified the CWU that they intend to commence redundancy consultation and you will have been invited onto a call this morning with management.
Your CWU ORNT does not believe that Openreach needed to take this course of action.
2024 AGM and Gold Badge Award
The branch AGM was held at the Royal Wells Hotel in Tunbridge Wells on February 14th 2024. Being that the meeting was held on Valentines day meant that the numbers attending were down on what is normal, but there was enough to conduct the business of the AGM.
AGM This Week!
News about our up coming AGM with special Head Office guest – Karen Rose – CWU President and soon to be Deputy General Secretary (Telecoms & Financial Services).
Chris Power gold badge award.
Elections.
CWU – We are getting into shape for the struggles ahead
Hundreds of representatives from all levels of the union gathered in Manchester yesterday to kick off the CWU Restructuring national debate…
A tough past few years have seen postal and telecoms members forced into national strike action in defence of their jobs, job security and pay, terms and conditions after having kept these vital public services running all through the pandemic.
AGM Invite and Forms
AGM 14th February 2024 at Tunbridge WellsIn the Royal Wells Hotel, 59 Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8BEStarts 19:30 The agenda will include the submission of the Annual report, elections, branch officers and committee vacant posts and any proposals pertinent to an AGM, i.e. changes to branch bye laws and any proposals for the […]
THE MO IS CALLING
Movember is our time to unite. To take on mental health, suicide, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. And you coming along for the ride only makes us stronger.
Movember Campaign 2023 – Highlighting Men’s Health Issues – Specifically Prostate Cancer, Testicular Cancer and Suicide Prevention – Help Save Men’s Lives – “Movember – Stopping Men Dying Too Young”
CWU Elections for DGS(T&FS)
With Andy Kerr the current DGS (T&FS) advising that he will not be seeking re-election in 2024 an election was to be held to elect a new person to the role and allowing a suitable hand over period.
Resounding ‘YES’ to BT Group pay deal
Members across BT, Openreach and EE have voted by three-to-one to accept a CWU-brokered pay deal which delivers an additional 2.5% increase this year – on top of the £1,500 flat rate increase that was paid out in January – and a further across-the-board 4% increase that will apply from April 1 next year.
BT to cut 55,000 jobs with up to a fifth replaced by AI
Telecoms giant BT is to shed up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade, mostly in the UK, as it cuts costs.
Up to a fifth of those cuts will come in customer services as staff are replaced by technologies including artificial intelligence.
More placed ‘at risk’ in new phase of BT Supply Chain ‘transformation’
Close tabs are being kept on the latest changes that have been unveiled by Supply Chain bosses, with the CWU intent on ensuring that every effort will be made to mitigate against potential redundancies.