Union Bangs The Drum For Universal Broadband
News The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has called on the government and industry to make universal broadband access a reality in the UK. Speaking at TMA 2002 on Tuesday, the CWU's deputy general secretary for telecoms, Jeannie Drake, insisted that...
[October 22, 2002, 12:09]
Union Takes BT Spin-off Row To Government
News The Communications Workers Union (CWU) is taking its protests over the demerger of BT's wireless division to the government, and is insisting that the split will not benefit either BT's shareholders or its workforce.
[September 3, 2001, 13:05]
BT Strike Hailed A Success By Union
News Ninety percent of CWU members did not turn up for work at BT's 150 and 151 call centres this morning in protest over "oppressive" and "intimidating" working conditions. In response to the strike, BT has agreed to farther talks with the CWU later...
[November 22, 1999, 12:12]
Novell Case Study: Central Washington University
White Papers Central Washington University (CWU) is a comprehensive, four-year public university with nearly 9,000 full-time students and 1,400 faculty and staff. With the increasing popularity of the RIM BlackBerry, the IT staff at CWU needed the right...
[April 5, 2007, 0:00]
Strike Threat To BT Wireless Sell-off
News The Communications Workers Union (CWU) is concerned that the separation of BT Wireless from the rest of the telco will result in job losses. The CWU represents around 80,000 BT workers, and Jeannie Drake, general secretary of the CWU, warned on...
[August 31, 2001, 13:39]
Unions Protest Against BT's Wireless Sell-off
News Both the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and some BT staff are unhappy with the idea of selling off mmO2, formerly known as BT Wireless. If the wireless division is separated from the rest of BT then it is highly likely to be merged or taken over...
[October 23, 2001, 13:10]
'Summer Of Discontent' Ahead For O2
News Nearly 4,000 call centre staff, shop workers and engineers at O2 were balloted by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) on the pay offer, with 96 percent of the three-quarters who voted choosing to reject it.
[August 2, 2005, 14:05]
BT Faces Strike Action
News A CWU spokesman described the call centres as "battery hen places" in which staff are watched constantly and given "intimidating" performance targets. In a statement, deputy general secretary of the CWU describes the main problems BT workers are...
[November 15, 1999, 12:21]
Strike Fears Over BT Outsourcing Plan
News If the CWU calls for strike action, other BT businesses could be affected, including customer service. Whilst it is only BT directories at the moment, our campaign is going to be across the whole of BT and all the workers," said CWU officer Sally...
[February 19, 2003, 15:45]
Workers Protest Over Call-centre Outsourcing
News Danon accused the CWU of leading to the breakdown of negotiations over moving call centre staff to India, saying "it was the union that walked away from the negotiating table". A spokesman from CWU responded: "He is saying nobody will lose their job.
[March 20, 2003, 15:40]
BT Outsourcing Move Brings Strike Threats
News It will be a day of protest at directory enquiry centres," a CWU spokesperson told ZDNet UK. The CWU is getting support from trade union group Amicus and banking union Unify and intend to run a united campaign to lobby government.
[March 7, 2003, 14:22]
Unions Attack C&W Bonus Plan
News The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has reacted angrily to an announcement this week that senior managers at struggling telco Cable & Wireless (C&W) could be in line for multi-million-pound bonuses.
[May 15, 2006, 17:15]
Angry O2 Workers Disrupt AGM
News The meeting, held in Reading, was picketed by the Communications Workers Union (CWU) as part of its campaign to raise pay for O2 employees. O2 has claimed that the protests were coordinated by the CWU.
[July 28, 2005, 13:15]
Ofcom Needs More Broadband Clout, Say MPs
News He also congratulated the Communications Workers Union (CWU) for pushing the government on this issue. Whittingdale urged the government to use its proposed spending on broadband for schools, hospitals and other public services to drive BT's...
[January 7, 2003, 16:28]
Angry O2 Workers Disrupt AGM
Talkback See website www.cwu.org for further details and both the Mirror and Guardian 28th July editions You should also report on the fact that a 73 yr old male shareholder who demanded that employees are heard and called for the CEO to resign, was...
[July 29, 2005, 14:25]
Shareholders Give Thumbs-up To BT Wireless Spin-off
News The CWU, which claims the split is a mistake, lobbied city institutions and the government in an attempt to get the demerger blocked. BT announced on Tuesday afternoon that its shareholders had voted overwhelmingly in favour of floating its...
[October 23, 2001, 16:26]
Union Wades Into Offshoring Row
News The investigation is part of a campaign by Amicus, along with other service-sector unions, including CWU, UNIFI and Connect, to highlight what they say are the dangers associated with outsourcing work from the UK to the developing world.
[February 9, 2004, 8:05]
Unions Pour Scorn On Vodafone Layoffs
News The "dislocation" of 400 Vodafone employees has received a frosty response from the Communication Workers' Union (CWU). It is a sad day for all those hardworking staff in Newbury — particularly the 400 who now face redundancy despite working for a...
[May 30, 2006, 17:00]
BT Faces Strike Over Back-office Outsourcing
News This union is opposed to BT's plans to outsource work outside the UK and will take all appropriate measures, up to and including strike action, unless the company withdraws from the current trial in India," CWU deputy general secretary Jeannie...
[July 12, 2001, 13:16]
MPs To Scrutinise Tech Industry
News Following BT's move to open a 2,200 person call centre in India, three of the UK's main unions, Amicus, CWU and Unifi, launched a campaign in June to lobby against the trend for moving operations offshore as a danger to "jobs and the economy".
[August 19, 2003, 11:00]
