CWU model motion LTB 056/09

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Letter to Branches




No. 056/09 Ref GS 11.0 Date: 28/01/09



(All Branches)

To: The Branch Secretary


Dear Colleague

Model Motion for Constituency Labour Parties, Trades Councils and Others

Please find attached a model motion for Constituency Labour Parties, Trades Councils and other bodies.

The motion should be tailored to the specific locality and body.

Branches may wish to add appropriate local concerns.

The the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regularity Reform is:
Lord Mandelson and the Minister of State is Pat McFadden. The address is as follows:

Department for BERR
1 Victoria Street
London SW1H OET

Details of EDM 428 can be downloaded using the following link http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetai ... ESSION=899" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Any enquiries on the LTB should be addressed to the General Secretary quoting the Reference GS 11.0.

Yours sincerely



Billy Hayes Dave Ward
General Secretary Deputy General Secretary








Model Motion




Royal Mail


That this …………………………notes that the Labour Party Conference 2008, with the backing of Ministers, supported “a vision of a wholly publicly-owned, integrated Royal Mail Group”; it welcomes the conclusion of the Hooper Report that the current universal service obligation offered by Royal Mail, including six days a week delivery, must be protected and that the primary duty of a new regulator should be to maintain it; further welcomes the recommendations in the report that the government should take responsibility for the pensions deficit which followed an extended contributions holiday; endorses the call for a new relationship between management and postal unions and welcomes the commitment of the CWU to negotiate an agreement which would support the modernisation of the industry. Rejects the recommendations of the Hooper Report to sell a minority stkae in Royal Mail which would risk fracturing one of Britain’s greatest public services. This would be a breach of the 2005 Labour Party Manifesto. Calls upon………………..to support EDM 428.