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Openstreet’ shows the way ahead for Openreach training

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‘Openstreet’ shows the way ahead for Openreach training Telecoms & Financial Services, Openreach October 25 2018A resounding thumbs up has been given by the CWU to an innovative new approach to training in Openreach that seeks to better prepare new recruits and existing engineers receiving refresher/ upskilling training for the real-life challenges they will face in
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LTB 561/18 – Glyphosate – Weedkillers

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LTB 561/18 – Glyphosate – Weedkillers No. 561/2018 2 October 2018 Our Ref: E1/18   Glyphosate – Weedkillers To: All Branches Dear Colleagues, Glyphosate is a toxic herbicide used to kill weeds. Glyphosate is used in a large number of weedkillers. It is the most commonly used weedkiller in the world with about two-thirds of
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New Deal for Workers

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New Deal for Workers The fight for a New Deal for Britain’s Workers has been a central theme of the CWU’s wider campaigning work and is a fighting response to the growing casualisation of the nation’s workforce. Our General Secretary Dave Ward has won support from both the TUC and the Labour Party for the
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Beating the blockade of Cuba – with ballet shoes

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Beating the blockade of Cuba – with ballet shoes Telecoms & Financial Services August 21 2018 The CWU has taken its first foray into the elite world of classical dance – and is currently storing 1,200 pairs of ballet shoes that will be delivered to Cuba next year as part of a joint-union initiative to beat
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Prostate Cancer

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Bill Moloney an Openreach Engineer in Middlesbrough came to say thank you to me (Mitzi). He said if it wasn’t for me giving out the Prostate Cancer leaflets a couple of months ago then he would never had done anything about it. He’s just told me that he has just got his results back and
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