No: 224/26 TO: ALL BRANCHES Dear Colleague, Union Learning Representative’s Networking Event – 3rd November 2026 The purpose of this LTB is to advise Branches that this year’s Union Learning Representative’s (ULR) Networking Event will take place on Tuesday 3rd November 2026 at: The Grand Hotel Leicester 73 Granby Street Leicester LE1 6ES Branches will be aware that ULR legislation provides for networking with othe

No: 225/26 TO: ALL BRANCHES Dear Colleague, Ken McKenzie Award for Lifelong Learning 2026 Branches will be aware of the policy adopted at General Conference 2010 to present the Ken McKenzie Award for Lifelong Learning, which is presented to a Union Learning Representative (ULR) or group of ULRs who have made a significant contribution to Lifelong Learning within the CWU. The award is presented each year at our CWU ULR National Networking Event. T

No: 223/26 TO: ALL BRANCHES Dear Colleague, Branch Chairs Course The purpose of this LTB is to advise branches that a Branch Chairs course will take place at GFTU Quorn Grange, Loughborough on the 5th – 7th October 2026. The course will cover: The role of the Branch Chair Meetings terminology Chairing a meeting Chairing a difficult meeting Yearly Plan Branch AGMs Conference Rule 6, Branch rules Writing motions Complaints and dispute resolution Action planning Applications sh

No. 220/26 For the Immediate Attention of All: Postal Branches with Eurest Members Area Processing Representatives Area Delivery Representatives Area Distribution Representatives Divisional Representatives Dear Colleague Urgent Update – Eurest Catering Review The department has been in discussions with Royal Mail concerning a Eurest catering review of all sites, including their plans on phased closure’s. Several meetings on this issue were held and the CWU made it clear tha

No. 218/26 Royal Mail Group – Sun Safety Communications 2026 Dear Colleagues, This week, Royal Mail Group have made available two new workplace-based posters on Sun Safety for issuing across Royal Mail and Parcelforce as we continue to face hotter and more extreme heat conditions during this summer period. These posters are designed to offer short and practical advice in terms of ‘things you can do to cool someone down’ and also highlight symptoms and early warning signs link

No. 219/26 To: All Branches Dear Colleagues, FORMER NEC AND POSTAL EXECUTIVE MEMBER – BILL STEEL It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of our friend and colleague Bill Steel following a long and courageous battle against a serious illness. Bill joined the old GPO and one of our predecessor unions, the POEU, in 1976. He held his first union position as a committee member of the Edinburgh Motor Transport Branch in 1977. He went on to hold numerous p

No. 217/26 Dear Colleague, Royal Mail: PFSL Pay Negotiations 2026 – Impasse Reached Further to LTBs 0144/26 dated 8th May. Despite expressing our optimism that we could reach an Agreement after a couple more meetings with PFSL, unfortunately due to factors beyond our control, negotiations have come to an abrupt halt, and disappointingly management have consistently failed to respond in any meaningful way to our formal pay claim. I do of course understand that members will be

No. 216/26 To: All Branches Dear Colleagues, CWU Retired Members Conference – Wednesday 14th October 2026 The CWU Retired Members Conference will be held on Wednesday 14th October 2026 at the offices of CWU Birmingham District Amal Branch, 47 Summer Lane, Hockley, Birmingham B19 3TH. Delegates Only Branches with Retired members Sections are entitled to send Delegates. Branch delegate entitlement to this Conference as agreed by the NEC is as follows: Number of Retired Membe

No. 215/26 TO: ALL BRANCHES Dear Colleagues, CWU Young Workers Conference – Wednesday 21st October 2026 The CWU Young Workers Conference will be held on Wednesday 21st October 2026 at the Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6DD. Each Regional Young Workers Sub Committee will be entitled to submit ONE motion to the Conference Agenda. Each Branch will be entitled to submit ONE motion to the Conference Agenda. The National Young Workers Committee will be enti

No. 214/26 Dear Colleague, ROYAL MAIL GROUP: NEW ENTRANTS – CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT Branches will be aware that Paragraph 3.2 of the agreement for the Equalisation of New Entrants’ Pay, Terms, Conditions, and specifically the third bullet point, commits both the CWU and Royal Mail Group to review the contracts of employment for New Entrants as part of the relationship reset. For the avoidance of doubt, the review includes the contracts for New Entrant OPGs and those in Engi

No. 213/26 Dear Colleague, Election of National Representative Positions – 2026 CWU Retired Members Committee Further to LTB 193/26 dated 7th July 2026, at the close of nominations on the 30th July at 14.00 the following were received: 2 Retired members living in Wales Thomas Hughes Shropshire & Mid Wales, South East No 5 *Elected 2 Retired members living in Northern Ireland Lawrence Huston Northern Ireland Telecoms, Plymouth & East Cornwall *Elected Michael McAlinden Nort

Update on Reset Over the last few weeks since the National Agreement was endorsed, we have been working with Royal Mail on how to launch the much needed Reset of Employee and Industrial Relations. You will have seen that the Royal Mail CEO, Alistair Cochrane wrote to all employees to express his support for the Reset of both Employee and Industrial Relations (copy attached). Alistair Cochrane, Kieran Judd (Chief People Officer), Jamie Stephenson (Chief Operations Officer), A

No. 211/26 Dear Colleague, ROYAL MAIL: WINDING UP THE RMDCP SCHEME – TRANSFER OF MEMBER ASSETS TO LEGAL AND GENERAL MASTERTRUST IN JULY 2026 Further to LTB 195/26 dated 8th July 2026. RMDCP eligibility is – all people who commenced RMG employment from 1st April 2008 until 6th October 2024. Also, this LTB is in specific to the RMDCP only, meaning the RMPP and the Collective Plan are unaffected. Welcome to Legal & General Letters Branches are advised that the “Welcome to L&G” l

No. 208/26 TO: ALL BRANCHES Dear Colleague, Remembering Our Colleague and Friend Jeremy Baugh It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of our dear colleague and friend, Jeremy Baugh, following a long and courageous battle with cancer. Jeremy served as the CWU’s Head of Research from 2001 until 2009 and later returned to the union as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Postal Department from 2015 until 2019. Jeremy was an outstanding and lifelong trade un

No. 207/26 Dear Colleague Capita TVL: Pay Negotiations 2026/27 – Rejection of Pay Offer Branches are advised that the Postal Executive has formally rejected a further pay offer from Capita TVL management. Our view is that the BBC contract is extremely lucrative for the overall Capita Group and given that this contract was recently extended until 2030, in our view is that the offer, which we are unable to divulge at this stage, falls short of our aspirations on behalf of our

No. 210/26 To: All Branches Dear Colleagues, UNIONLINE & UNIONLINE SCOTLAND The purpose of this LTB is to advise branches of developments within Unionline since the publication of LTB 53/26. Branches will recall that following allegations of fraud committed against PM Law (the company that provided management services to Unionline), and against Unionline itself, PM Law collapsed in February 2026. While regulatory and criminal investigations continue, Unionline have concentr

No. 209/26 Dear Colleague Royal Mail Group: Hybrid Working Policy – Decision to Impose Four Day Working in the Workplace – Exceptions Process and Appeals Further to LTB 200/26 dated 13th July. Branches will be aware that Royal Mail, at the highest level of the company, recently introduced a policy to increase the number of office days from three to four for hybrid workers, with a targeted date of 1st August. As Branches and members would expect, we robustly challenged managem

No. 205/26 Royal Mail Group – Updated Health and Safety Policy Statement 2026 Dear Colleagues, For the information and reference of CWU Health and Safety Reps, Branches, and members, attached is a copy of the revised Royal Mail Group Health and Safety Policy, issued on 20th July 2026. This revised policy, in the name of Alistair Cochrane, CEO Royal Mail Group, outlines an overview of Royal Mail Group’s commitment to the management of Health and Safety across the group and is

No. 206/26 Dear Colleague Royal Mail: Sports and Social Clubs – RM Decision to Stop Subscriptions from Payroll. Further to LTBs 074/26, 086/26, 107/26 and 177/26. Branches will be aware that we escalated this matter to Kieran Judd, Chief People Officer. A formal meeting was held with Kieran Judd, along with Andrew Smith, HR Director, Industrial Relations, on 23rd June, during which it was put to them that the wellbeing of the Sports & Socials Clubs was essential and that th

No. 203/26 Dear Colleague, UPDATE ON DM26 It is now just over six weeks since the membership ratified the USO reform agreement. The attached report is designed to give reps and members a full update on the 120 Delivery units that were deployed up to Monday 13th July. This is without a doubt the biggest-ever change to deliveries, and the full terms and safeguards of our agreement must be applied to every single delivery unit. The agreement is crystal clear; no units should dep