Communication Workers Union (United Kingdom)

Communication Workers Union
AbbreviationCWU
PredecessorNational Communications Union
Union of Communication Workers
FoundedJanuary 1995
Headquarters150 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1RX
Location
  • United Kingdom
Members
Decrease 184,083 (2021)[1]
Key people
Dave Ward, General Secretary
PublicationThe Voice
AffiliationsTUC, ICTU, STUC, Alliance for Finance, Labour,[2] NSSN, Momentum
Websitewww.cwu.org Edit this at Wikidata

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is the main trade union in the United Kingdom for people working for telephone, cable, digital subscriber line (DSL) and postal delivery companies. It has 110,000 members in Royal Mail as well as more in many other communication companies.[3]

Formed in 1995 by the merger of the Union of Communication Workers and National Communications Union, its current general secretary is Dave Ward.

  1. ^ "Annual Return for a Trade Union" (PDF). publishing.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  2. ^ "TULO's member unions | Unions Together". Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
  3. ^ Royal Mail staff vote to strike over pensions. BBC NEWS. Published 3 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.

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