LTB 277/22 - Royal Mail Group Ballot - Peer to peer texting - One volunteer per Branch needed : LTB 276/22 - Royal Mail Group National Ballot - Getting the Vote Out - New Text Messaging Service

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https://www.cwu.org/ltb/ltb-277-22-roya ... ch-needed/

LTB 277/22 – Royal Mail Group Ballot – Peer to peer texting – One volunteer per Branch needed
No: 277/22

23 June 2022



TO: ALL POSTAL BRANCHES



Royal Mail Group Ballot – Peer to peer texting – One volunteer per Branch needed

Dear Colleagues

The Communications Department are launching a new peer to peer text messaging system tosupport our get the vote out operation across all the Industrial Action ballots that are taking place in the CWU.

As you can imagine, having conversations with over 100,000 CWU members in the Royal Mail ballot will be a significant logistical operation.

We will utilise our postal executive members, field officials and CWU staff but we also want one volunteer per branch to join the team.

The technology involved is very easy to use but we recommend each branch puts forward a volunteer with the time and skills to take on this project.

The first texts will be sent on Friday 1st July with a national training event held at 11am on this day. Branches are encouraged to put forward their volunteers by no later than Friday 24th June so we can put all necessary planning in place.

The name, Email and mobile number of the selected volunteer should be emailed to Marcia Murray mmurray@cwu.org with the subject line TEXT VOLUNTEER ROYAL MAIL GROUP.

We look forward to working with you all on this initiative.

Yours sincerely,

Terry Pullinger Chris Webb
Deputy General Secretary (Postal) Head of Communications

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https://www.cwu.org/ltb/ltb-276-22-roya ... g-service/

LTB 276/22 – Royal Mail Group National Ballot – Getting the Vote Out – New Text Messaging Service
No: 276/22

23 June 2022



TO: ALL POSTAL BRANCHES



Royal Mail Group National Ballot – Getting the Vote Out – New Text Messaging Service



Dear Colleagues,

This is just a short note to let you all know that the Communications Department will be running a ew text messaging service to hopefully aid the turnout in the forthcoming industrial Action ballot.

The personalised, peer to peer service will be used by volunteers from our Executive, Branches, Divisions and CWU staff.

The purpose of this LTB is to make Branches aware of this activity so, if you are asked questions on it by members, you can confirm its legitimacy.

This link can provide further information if you need it: https://www.cwu.org/rm-sms

Yours Sincerely,



Terry Pullinger Chris Webb
Deputy General Secretary (Postal) Head of Communications

[yorkmover123]

CWU’s strike ballot was unlawful because workers were filmed and photographed voting and posting their ballot papers.

Let’s insure non of members do this in the workplace and social media it’s the last thing we need to send the message out to all our workplaces
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[TrueBlueTerrier]

The technology involved is very easy to use but we recommend each branch puts forward a volunteer with the time and skills to take on this project.

But no indication of how much time or what skills they need.

The first texts will be sent on Friday 1st July with a national training event held at 11am on this day.

right in the delivery period for must duties, you know where Delivery OPGs are busy delivering stuff to residents.

The 2 don't compute - I always thought there was a disconnect between the CWU and its ordinary members, this isn't really dispelling my concern.