The rate for retired and retired associate members shall increase on 1 January each year by the same percentage increase as the known CPI at the time. The known rate…
ICYMI: CWU Death Benefit payment increased
From 1st October 2019 the CWU Death Benefit payment increased to £839. See LTB 583/19 – CWU Death Benefit for full info
NI Telecom Branch Elections
The time has come to request nominations for all Branch Officer Positions for term time 2020 – 2022, with a closing date and time of December 11th 2019 12.00pm. Please see…
BT compulsory redundancy threat
Nearly 370 loyal employees in the Enterprise division were placed formally ‘at risk’ of being forcibly exited last week in what has been described as f the most serious challenge…
Labour announcement on full fibre broadband
Last week, Labour announced a major policy to invest in and roll out a publicly owned full fibre broadband network to every address across the country within a decade. This…
Northern Ireland Regional Committee & Sub-Committees Elections
Regional Committee Officers Regional Sub-Committee. As per decisions taken at CWU Re-Design Conference, it is the responsibility of each Regional Secretary to carry out the two yearly elections of the…
ICYMI: BT CONSUMER – BONUS PAYMENTS IN SERVICE
Please see LTB 502/2019 for full details Following consultation with the CWU BT has announced changes to the payment of bonuses in Service areas for those on BT Workforce 20/20…
BT Hybrid Pension – Deadline 30 September
The BT Hybrid Pension Scheme (BTHS) has been open since April. Those eligible now only have only until 30th September to decide whether or not to join. To help draw attention…
Retired Members branch committee representative: Result
Huge congratulations to Lawrence Huston winning the vote for representative of the Retired Members to sit on the branch Committee. Congrats also to Joe Dowdall for giving a good run…
Holiday Uplift Payments: An explanation
For those members interested in finding our more about how HUP will be calculated/applied, please see the below except from LTB 048/2019; a letter from Employee Relations to our T&FS…
ICYMI: HUP & Claiming payment for working beyond your finish time
Voluntary Overtime is now included in the calculation for HUP and this started in April 2019. There is a helpful Q&A on the BT HR site if there are any…
The Voice: Summer 19
CWU’s The Voice gives vital updates on a whole range of workplace issues affecting members across the CWU – as well as the many subjects debated at CWU Annual Conference….
LTB 393/19 – TRADE UNION ACT – POLITICAL FUND NOTICE
TRADE UNION ACT – POLITICAL FUND NOTICE IN RELATION TO MEMBERS WHO JOINED THE CWU ON OR AFTER 1ST MARCH 2018 Under the Trade Union Act, the union is required to…
Fair pay demanded for VVS operators
Telecoms & Financial Services May 29 2019 Pay rates for those fielding 999 calls and a plethora of other public service call streams completely fail to reflect the increasing complexity and…
CWU Rulebook 2019
The latest version of the CWU Rulebook, updated at CWU Annual Conference 2019 is now available and ready to download hereor under the CWU Rulebook link on our navigation menu