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The Postcard Campaign is coming
to the Eastern Region W.C 29th June 2009. Look out for us in towns
across the region from Oxford, Cambridge, Bedford, Norwich to
Clacton during that week! For further details on this campaign
please contact Maxiene in the branch on 01206 213545 / 01277 227890 or
the Eastern Regional Secretary Paul Moffat on 07912945417 |
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The CWU is campaigning against the governments intention to privatise
Royal Mail. As part of this campaign, the CWU welcomes
Early Day Motion 428
opposing privatisation of Royal Mail which has 178 signatures and
rising. Ask your MP to sign. If you don't know who your MP is then
click to find out.
Sign our e-petition here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Royal-Mail-Sale
This currently has over five and a half thousand signatures. Also
Keep the Post Public
No one is sure why the
Government have decided to try and privatise the Royal Mail but it’s
really important that the people who rely on the service show them
there is a better way.
Just as our banks are
failing us because of private bosses’ greed it makes no sense to
repeat this in the Post Office. There are so few places these days
where we all feel equal, here people are put first and not profits.
We don’t want Post Offices to shut down and prices to go up. We think
the Post Office can become a hugely successful People’s Bank.
We know the service needs
to be improved and within a secure and long term future wholly in the
public sector we think the Royal Mail can continue to be a great
British success story.
Please sign up and add
your name to the thousands who want keep the Post Office public – no
stamp is required.
We believe:
The Royal Mail and
the Post Office are part of the fabric of British society. They
provide a universal service to all. Postal workers deliver to every
door regardless of the wealth that lies behind it. In its queues we
are all equal citizens. Businesses of every size and shape rely on it.
For elderly people, those with disabilities, parents, the low-paid and
those in rural communities its services are essential. It works well
and could work a lot better if it were modernised and properly
invested in. This is what we need to see happen; not any of the
various forms of privatisation the government is now proposing. The
proposals the government currently has on the table would begin to
break up the postal service, be less efficient and would start to see
services cherry picked for profit not for the benefit of people. We
call on the government to drop its plans for any privatisation of
Royal Mail and to begin the process of modernising this valued public
service and the establishment of a fully fledged Peoples’ Bank based
on the Post Office counters network.
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Learning Open Day
Wednesday 8th July 2009 2-
6pm
Centre For Trade Union Studies
Colchester Institute
The CWU Colchester & District and South
East Anglia Branches are running a joint learning open day in July
which you are all invited to.
The day will include IT tasters with
sample activities, the ability to run a self skill check,
demonstrations on various therapies/stress relief and also a sign
language taster session( to be confirmed). There will be someone from
student support on hand to advise you on courses on offer as well as
branch officers from both branches and our CWU Regional Education
Project Worker Neil Coleby.
Refreshment will be provided along with
a free prize draw to win a digital camera. There will also be lots of
freebies given away on the day including stress balls and pens.
We hope to see you there!
Regards,
Maxiene Fraser & Andy Cable
stop Press
Look out for our up and
coming computer courses that will start on the 16th & 17th
September 2009 Beginners and improvers. 6 Weeks 6-9pm at the Trade
Union Studies Centre, Colchester institute. This is a free course for
all CWU members. A small returnable deposit of £25 is required which
will be returned to you on completion of the course. For more details
contact the Branch ULR’s on 01206 213547/ 01277 227890
