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. 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. 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

No. 198/26 Dear Colleague, ROYAL MAIL: FINANCIAL WELLBEING; SALARY ADVANCE Royal Mail is today launching a new facility for monthly paid employees that allows for salary advances, which may be welcomed by some members when facing temporary financial difficulties. All monies advanced will be paid back via payroll at the next salary; therefore essentially this is simply an advance of salary and is not linked to a Salary Sacrifice product, which would be paid back via instalmen

No. 202/26 14th July 2026 Dear Colleague, ROYAL MAIL: CHANGE FOR GOOD – JOINT STATEMENT Further to LTB 126/26 dated 29th April 2026. Branches are advised that there have been a number of changes in the Change for Good (CFG) management team at Royal Mail, and of particular note the HR Director, Performance & Capability, left Royal Mail at the end of June. This has meant slower progress than we originally anticipated in establishing the Shadow National Steering Committee (SNS

No: 196/26 TO: ALL BRANCHES Dear Colleague, National Equality Event – Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th September 2026 We are pleased to confirm that this year’s National Equality Event will take place as follows: Date: Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th September 2026 Venue: The Grand Hotel Leicester 73 Granby Street Leicester LE1 6ES Times: The event will start with registration on the 23rd

No. 197/26 To: All Branches & Field Officials Dear Colleagues, BRANCH BEST PRACTICE FOR THE NOMINATION PROCESS TO BE CONDUCTED FOR FIELD OFFICIAL ELECTIONS Branches will recall the Branch ballot procedures circulated in LTB 230/25 on 24 October 2025. Whilst Branch Officers and Committees shall establish rules governing the conduct of elections, this documentation provided clarification in certain areas. Given the number of elections being held each year the number of compla

No.186/26 Dear Colleague ROYAL MAIL GROUP: DRUGS AND ALCOHOL NATIONAL COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT – BRIEFING IN BIRMINGHAM TUESDAY 30TH JUNE Further to LTB 174/26. It has now been confirmed that the National Agreement will be rolled out from Monday 6th July and the six-month amnesty (no use of discipline following a positive test) will apply from that date. Branches and Representatives in the five ROD areas not involved in the Drugs & Alcohol Pilot (Greater London, Midlands, North-

No 174/26 Dear Colleague ROYAL MAIL GROUP: DRUGS AND ALCOHOL NATIONAL COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT – SUPPORT & REHABILITATION SERVICE AND FOR-CAUSE TESTING FOR DRIVERS Branches will be aware via the seven LTBs issued last year on this subject matter, that the Postal Executive previously endorsed a number of extensions to the original For-Cause testing Pilot for Drugs & Alcohol, which has been in operation since January 2025, initially in Wales and then across a further six ROD areas.

No. 176/26 Dear Colleague, Incentive Scheme for Delivery Units In July 2025 members endorsed both the Rebuilding Royal Mail Part 1 and Part 2 agreements. Part of the commitments within the agreement was for an incentive bonus scheme to be agreed. Talks began last year on how these schemes would work. The talks within the delivery operations were guided by the following principles: That the scheme would be self-funded. That it would be based on the opportunity to receive a bo

No. 177/26 Dear Colleague Royal Mail: Sports and Social Clubs – RM Decision to Stop Subscriptions from Payroll Further to LTBs 074/26, 086/26 and 107/26 dated 6th and 24th March, and 13th April respectively. Branches are advised that discussions have continued on this matter with Simon Cunniffe, Director HR Services. Unfortunately, we have not been able to persuade Royal Mail to revise their seriously flawed plans to stop our members’ subscriptions to the sports & social clu

No: 178/26 For the Immediate Attention of All: Postal Branches with Parcelforce Members Parcelforce Regional Organisers Parcelforce Representatives Dear Colleagues Joint Statement – Agreed National Guidelines for the Deployment of PDA Outdoor Actuals in Parcelforce Attached for the information of Branches, Parcelforce Representatives and members is a Joint Statement with Parcelforce covering the Agreed Guidelines for the deployment of PDA Outdoor Actuals in Parcelforce. Par