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‘CWU’ Articles

Future of Royal Mail Emergency Motion

I am currently at the Labour 2009 conference in Brighton and I will be speaking at the Future of Royal Mail Emergency motion today to discuss the issues faced by the business. I will be calling on the government to start cross party talks with the Royal Mail and the CWU Union to discuss the [Continue]

Lack of Information = Lack of Voters

I’ve been looking at the recent Borough Council election results, which show a significant drop in turnout from the last comparable election in 2003, which was also an ‘electronic’ election. In 2005 overall turnout was 54.5%, but in 2007 it has slumped to 42.6%. With the choice of voting methods on offer this is a [Continue]

Postal Update

It has been a very busy couple of weeks with the campaign to save the post office on St Mary’s Street. Councillor Alan Townsend and I have been campaigning outside of the post office most days and have obtained well over 13,000 signatures on our petition and handed out over 6,000 campaign letters. We held [Continue]

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