Branch Chair, Erin Massey spoke about the Branch’s transgender motion, at the CWU’s Annual Telecoms and Financial Services Conference on Thursday 2nd May. Promoting the need for a new way…
2019 Pay deal effective from today
BT Employees will benefit from the second part of a 2 year pay deal negotiated with the CWU effective from today, 1st April. All NewGRID team member pay ranges and…
Fundraiser in aid of Comic Relief 2019
What a pavlova of a day! CWU NITB South Section Rep Ashlee Chadwick recently held a fundraiser in aid of Comic Relief 2019 in the Portadown BT call centre. Ashlee…
Wellbeing & Mental Health Forum
North Section Secretary David Simpson and West Section Secretary Mark Feehily recently attended the Wellbeing & Health Forum at CWU Head Office where BT made a presentation to Union Reps…
ICYMI December – January
LTB 037/19 – BT Sunday Payments for Part-Time Employees Branches have reported issues with the application of Sunday Attendance payments for part time employees. This issue has mainly arisen in…
Don’t miss this: Pensions Update
The BT Hybrid Scheme will launch from 1st April next year and those eligible will be able to pre-register to join from March 2019. After the launch those eligible to join…
Calling all members: Join us tomorrow for the #ENDGAME tour
Join us to support our BTPFS colleagues at Riverside Tower on Friday. We demand cast-iron commitments to job security, contractual hours, protection of hard-won Real Living Wage levels for housekeepers…
CWU Forum on Wellbeing and Mental Health
North Section Secretary David Simpson and East Section Secretary Fiona Curtis attended CWU Forum on Wellbeing and Mental Health last month. The forum had been billed as an opportunity for branch reps to hear direct…
#ENDGAME – Shock BTFS announcement jumpstarts new campaign
Following last weeks shock announcement that BT Facilities Services are to be outsource, the CWU is sending an unequivocal message to BT that it has to ‘Stop Playing Games’ with…
ICYMI September – October
Welcome to the September-October round-up of important CWU news and resources you might have missed We Closed the Gap! The CWU’s Close the Gap campaign has now fulfilled its objective…
BT Pensions Update
Deferred BT Pension Scheme (BTPS): All BTPS members at 30 June should have now received a statement detailing your closure benefits at your home address (the Closure Statement) and an…
Redesign – Delivering a connected union
The NEC have published a series of policy papers which will be debated and voted on at Special General Conference on 3rd and 4th November. The policy papers are a…
Good News. No more probationary period for BT Consumer
The CWU have been pursuing removal of the probationery period from BT contracts, so we were pleased to hear this week that the probationary period for new and existing contracts…
Spread the word – EE employees can join for free
Union subs are being temporarily waved for both new joiners and existing members in EE’s contact centre’s in a bid to bolster the CWU’s campaign for formal recognition. More than 1000…
Permanent roles for Agency employees in BT Consumer
Discussions between the CWU and BT about the Consumer operating model have nailed down an agreement with some really great news for Manpower employees within Consumer Customer Care. As a…