CWU 2020 Diary 

 

Dear Colleague

The deadline to place orders for personalised diaries has passed.  We are extending this to Friday 7 June giving branches more to time submit their orders.

We continue to offer personalised diaries at no additional cost.  Branches can personalise an area on the front cover of the CWU pocket diary and also have the option to have a personalised page (printed on one side only) which will be inserted near the front of the pocket diary.

Due to controls beyond us we have to increase the diary price, the first in decades and we have gone through lengths to keep the price down for our members. The CWU pocket diary is now priced at £1.75 and the A5 desk diary is priced at £2.60.

We also continue to offer branches bulk discount on pocket diaries only on orders of 1,000 or more for £1.40 per diary.

Branches ordering unaltered diaries should return their completed order form by no later than Friday 13^th  September.  Diaries will be dispatched from Friday 23^rd September 2019.

Personalised branch diary orders only

Branch personalised diary orders must be returned by no later than Friday 7 June. On receipt of your order form you will be emailed the appropriate template(s), please ensure to include your email address as this is where your template(s) will be sent with further instructions.

On receipt of the template(s) please complete and ensure to return to Leanne by Wednesday 12 June.  Due to strict deadlines any orders or proofs received after the dates provided will not be processed.  The diaries will be dispatched from Friday 23^rdSeptember 2019.

If you would like to use your 2019 diary template(s) and there are no changes please advise Marcia Murray.

Orders will be based on the following:

Minimum order to personalise front cover: 250 units

Minimum order to insert page: 500 units

Minimum order to personalise front cover and insert page: 500 units

All completed order forms must be returned to Marcia Murray in the communications department to arrive by no later than the dates given and all enquiries should be addressed to mmurray@cwu.org

Kind regards,

 

Chris Webb
Head of Communications, Engagement and Media

Diary Order Form

 

 

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Final dividend

Final dividend of around £155 for eligible employees

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The Board has recommended a final dividend of 17 pence per share. This means eligible full-time employees with the maximum allocation of 913 Free Shares will receive around £155 as a final dividend payment, subject to shareholder approval on 18 July 2019.

In total, they will have received around £1091 (before tax) in dividends since privatisation*.

Eligible part-time employees will receive a dividend based on their pro-rata allocation of Free Shares.

Change to dividend policy

From 2019-20, our policy is for a full year dividend underpin of 15.0 pence per share, which may be supplemented by additional payouts in years with substantial excess cashflow.

We are one of the most widely held stocks in the FTSE. We appreciate the support of our shareholders, including our people who have received Free Shares. We very much understand the importance of the dividend to all our shareholders. Our decision to rebase the dividend and change the policy is not one that we have taken lightly. In doing so, we have sought to find the appropriate balance between investing in the future sustainability of our business, and shareholder returns.

Details of all dividend payments are available on myroyalmail here.

*Up until 16 January 2019, eligible full-time employees with the maximum allocation of 913 Free Shares have received around £936 in dividends (before tax) since privatisation, and will receive around £155 on 4 September 2019, subject to shareholder approval at the AGM on 18 July 2019.

CWU Digital Photography Competition 2019

The CWU runs a digital photography competition as part of our informal learning project. This competition is open to all CWU members and their families.

Our learning reps have enabled hundreds of our members to take digital photography courses – and smart phones mean that many of us have a digital camera in their pocket to record the world around them. After the success of previous year’s competition we are again offering our members the opportunity to share their skills and abilities. The overall winner of the competition will receive a £200 gift voucher.

If members are interested in learning more about digital photography they can access a free course on CWU Left Click http://www.cwu.org/leftclick 

You can enter up to one photo in each of the following categories:

• Welcome To Our Home
• Stronger Together
• All The Colours Of The Rainbow
• The Wild Side Of Life

The winning entries will be judged to be the most visually appealing interpretations of the chosen theme, capturing on camera the spirit of the chosen theme and their overall impact and composition. Digital manipulation is acceptable but not necessary. To assist our judges please add a short explanation of how and why the photo was taken.

Entries should be sent as attachments via email to: learn@cwu.org 

The competition is open now. The closing deadline for entries is 29th September 2019. 

Entrants must supply their name and email address and branch. We regret that we are unable to accept postal entries.

Terms & conditions and a promotional poster are attached. If you have any queries relating to this LTB please contact Simon Massen at smassen@cwu.org 

Yours sincerely,

 

Trish Lavelle
Assistant Secretary

19LTB 303 – CWU Digital Photography Competition 2019

Digital Photography Competition Poster – 2019

CWU Digital Photography Competition 2019 TC

National Hazards Conference 2019 – Friday 26^thto Sunday 28^th July 2019, at Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire:  Cleaning Up Toxic Work:

 

Dear Colleagues,

The 30th National Hazards Conference takes place at Keele University, from Friday 26th to Sunday 28^thJuly 2019 and the CWU is once again pleased to be supporting and sponsoring this unique and popular event for Trade Union Safety Representatives.

Hazards Conference is the UK’s biggest and best educational and organising event for trade union safety reps and activists. It consists of a mixture of plenary sessions, meetings and a comprehensive workshop programme. It gives delegates the opportunity to exchange experience and information with, and learn from, safety reps and activists from other unions, sectors and jobs across the UK.

2019 is the TUC Year of Young Workers. Additionally, the theme for 2019 International Workers Memorial day was Dangerous Substances. Both these themes will be prominent at this year’s conference.

Toxic work exposes workers, and their unborn children to dangerous substances: including dust, asbestos, silica, pesticides, cleaning products and other chemicals, fumes, diesel and gases. All of which can have life-threatening and life- long consequences.

Toxic work is also about unhealthy working conditions, lack of dignity and increased vulnerability being experienced at work. Too many workers are subjected to intolerable pressures. They are micro managed, tracked, tagged and some even now microchipped! Workers’ every movement and bodily function is being monitored and controlled in too many work places. Some workers even have to tolerate toilet breaks being timed, restricted and even denied.

Unacceptable disciplinary actions and punishments are meted out for normal bodily functions and woe betide those workers who need reasonable adjustments because of disabilities, illness, periods, pregnancy or menopause.

Workers face discrimination, bullying, sexual harassment and violence and their mental health is suffering in both the short and the long term. Insecure and zero hour contracts are rife, and some workers are employed on a week by week basis with no employment security, no regular income and they live in fear of losing their jobs as well as suffering from ill health and injuries at work, which they dare not complain about.

This conference will address all these important health and safety issues and provide delegates with the knowledge, confidence, and organising skills to challenge and change them.

The booking form is up on the Hazards Campaign website now:

http://www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/hazards-conference

Also on the Hazards Campaign website http://www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/ sign up for updates on the right hand side of the page.

Hazards 2019 Workshops, Seminars & Meetings:

The opening plenary session with keynote speakers is on Friday evening and the closing plenary is on Sunday morning. There is a short Saturday plenary. Saturday is a day for workshops, seminars and meetings ending with campaign sessions.

The final plenary on Sunday will pull it all together and send safety reps off with more tools in the kit. The workshops, seminars and meetings are themed to provide a concentrated examination of all the key issues. Read the form carefully before you fill it in. Contact the organisers if you need help or further information.

There are three Themes to choose. Choose 2 workshops and one reserve. Also choose one Meeting. There will also be a Campaign Session on the Saturday afternoon which delegates can sign up for at registration. Two weeks before Hazards conference begins, Delegates will be posted the programme and more details to supplement the brief outline on the attached registration form.

Below are the outline details of the Conference keynote meetings and workshop sessions:-

Hazards Conference Keynote Meetings: 

Choose ONE Meeting and enter No. 1, 2 or 3 in the box on the Registration form

Meeting 1: Toxic Workplaces—Challenging the normalisation of precarious working conditions 

Many workers are facing zero hours contracts, a bullying and hostile work place, unrelenting pressures, sexual and violent attacks and a general disregard and disrespect of workers. Looking at the full impact on workers’ health and how we can support the safety and health of workers in these vulnerable mostly non-unionised workplaces and challenge employers’ efforts to make precarious low paid work the new normal.

Meeting 2: Toxic Workplaces—Preventing deadly exposures @work @home @school

Every year in the UK hundreds of thousands of workers are made ill, and tens of thousands are killed by hazardous substances. Every one of these illnesses and deaths is preventable. This meeting will discuss which workers are at risk of exposure, discuss the current legislation and examine where there need to be improvements and changes, examine the impact on UK of recent legal changes at European level and UN Human Rights recommendations on toxic substances and waste proposals and consider improving effectiveness of workplace organisation, Toxics Use Reduction, Zero carcinogens, Air Pollution campaigns, and how to reduce toxic exposures.

Meeting 3: Toxic Workplaces— Fixing a broken Health and Safety System? 

Deregulation and austerity have broken our health and safety system. HSE and LA inspector numbers and resources have been cut and their enforcement role limited. How is this affecting our health and safety in work-places? Do we need to look at different models of Occupational Health and Safety enforcement? And how can we use the Hazards Campaign Manifesto to create a health and safety system fit for workers to create decent jobs and decent lives for all, and ensure that our health and safety is not put at risk wherever we work?

Hazards Conference Workshops (Select two plus one reserve from your chosen theme)

Theme 1 Workplace Organisation

01 Reps’ functions and employers’ duties

Detailed examination of employers’ duties, and safety reps’ functions. Looking at how we ensure safety reps are able to carry out their functions and be more effective.

02 Safety Committees: what do we need?

Looking at how we ensure safety committees work effectively and proactively. Ways to ensure that health and safety issues are not marginalized and are dealt with as part of the bargaining agenda.

03 Resources and creative action for safety reps

Examining the resources available for safety reps and how they can be used to support their role. Creative action, effective newsletters, posters and leaflets using social media and what makes the most successful campaigns.

04 Supporting health and safety reps

Some Trade Union reps face victimisation when trying to support their members and also suffer from their own work-related stress. Looking at how we support safety reps and the preventative measures that can be put in place to protect reps from being harmed.

05 Workplace inspections

The workshop focuses on preparing for regular workplace inspections; explains the resources and tools you need, plus checklist development; recording and reporting the results of the inspection and follow-up action.

06 Investigating incidents and injuries

Good investigation ensures problems are identified and further harm is prevented. This workshop will look at key steps for incident investigation, and give you the tools you need to undertake inspections effectively.

Theme 2 Dealing With Risks 

07 Identifying Hazards/Risk, Hierarchy of control 

Risk assessment is the statutory foundation for employer working practices. Employers’ duties, how to carry out risk assessment, the hierarchy of control and failures. Examining ways to ensure safety reps play an effective role.

08 Violence faced by workers 

Workers are facing increasingly violent situations in their working environment, e.g. care, emergency services, teachers, hospitality, retail and lone workers etc. This workshop examines solutions, and good practice in keeping us all safe at work.

09 Manual Handling and Musculo-Skeletal Disorders, MSDs 

Manual Handling includes lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, carrying, moving, holding or restraining an object, animal or person. This can cause MSDs, the most common cause of occupational ill health and over 1/3 of reported injuries, leading to long-term pain and disability, so we look at prevention.

10 Air pollution—external and internal 

Exposure to a cocktail of chemicals at work, home, and in the environment is making us ill. We need a strategic approach to eliminating and reducing our exposure using REACH, COSHH and air pollution campaigns.

11 Sex and gender sensitive health and safety 

Men and women face different risks at work due to their biological sex, gender segregation of jobs and lack of research on women’s occupational health. Examination of what this means and how sex and gender sensitive risk assessment and organisation can prevent harm and inequality.

12 Driving is a hazardous profession 

Long hours, heavy and precarious loads, lack of welfare, bullying and poorly maintained vehicles. Delivering to inaccessible buildings, tracking and surveillance. How we challenge the hazards and reduce the risks.

Theme 3 Challenging Employers’ agenda 

13 Toxic Use Reduction 

No hazard No risk: challenging employers to eliminate the most hazardous carcinogens, mutagens and reproductive toxins first, substitute safer chemicals in the production process, redesigning products/processes to use less toxic chemicals. Explanation of Toxic Use Reduction methods and outcomes.

14 Influencing the Agenda on Occupational Illness 

Many OHS schemes are being introduced by employers, diverting attention from collective preventative action. Looking at how trade unions can re-focus action on prevention and ensure unions and safety reps are involved not excluded.

15 Getting enforcement to work for us 

Government restriction on enforcement limits what inspectors can do. There are fewer HSE and Local Authority inspectors, fewer proactive inspections. But what are they still doing and how safety reps can get help from inspectors when we need it.

16 Intensification of work and workplace bullying 

Work is being intensified, creating a hostile, bullying working environment and causing long term physical and mental harm. Identifying and challenging the hazards causing us real harm at work.

17 Work Related Stress—mapping and the management standards 

Looking at effective work-stress prevention policies. Using mapping to challenge employers to introduce effective risk assessments using the Stress Management Standards, and effective prevention methods.

18 New technology and new ways of working 

Identifying the hazards and risks from digital technologies, including musculo-skeletal disorders, stress, surveillance and control. How does the law help, how to assess the risks and organise to prevent harm.

How to apply for Hazards 2019 

See attached Registration Form. The closing date for applications is Friday 5th July 2019.

Choose 2 workshops plus a reserve within one of the Themes, and one Meeting. Put your choices in the appropriate boxes on the form. Arrange your delegate fee, complete the registration form, and send it to Hazards together with your cheque payable to Hazards 2019. If you want to pay by BACS contact Hazards for their account details to make the payment.

Notification 

Hazards will acknowledge your application within a few days of receiving it. If applicants don’t hear from the organisers within two weeks of sending in their form, contact the organisers (contact details below).

Conference timings and registration 

Friday 26th July, 1.00 -7.30pm – Delegate registration

Friday 26th July, 7.30 – 9.00pm – Hazards opening plenary

Saturday 27th July, 7.30 – 9.00 am – Delegate registration

Sunday 28th July,12.30pm – Conference Close (followed by packed lunch)

For more information, clarification or queries, contact:-

Hazards 2019
C/o Greater Manchester Hazards Centre
Windrush Millennium Centre
70 Alexandra Road
Manchester M16 7WD
Telephone: 0161 636 7558
Fax: 0161 636 7558
Email: hazconf@gmhazards.org.uk

So there’s a lot to find out, discuss and debate, and a lot to do to defend health and safety and safe workplaces and our union organisation. Attend the Hazards Conference to hear and learn more about the problems we face and what needs to be done.

Full details are contained in the attached pdf Conference Registration Form. Hard copies will be distributed to Branches and Regional Health and Safety Forums.

For more conference event information about the programme visit the 2019 Hazards Conference pages on the Hazards Campaign website at:

http://www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/hazards-conference

For clarification or queries, contact Hazards at: telephone 0161 636 7558 or e-mail: hazconf@gmhazards.org.uk

Yours sincerely

 

Dave Joyce
National Health, Safety & Environment Officer

19LTB298 National Hazards Conference 2019 – Friday 26th to Sunday 28th July 2019

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