reconvene until the autumn at the earliest.
By then one of the four will have reached retirement. No near to doubt BR will continue to find ways of delaying the issue. ers have drawn one conclusion. They should never have listened to the union's national officers when they told them to stop their original industrial action to rely on the legal machinery. Instead their best hope of winning lay in their own hands. Already the Piccadilly work merger.
By a post worker The UCW special conference on NCUNUCW merger took a step closer towards the creation of one communications union.
There were 228 amendments submitted for discussion to the merger document. The large number of amendments were an attempt to retain democratic traditions from the UCW within the merged union.
However the veto by the NCU clerical section will be retained in the merged union despite strong opposition within the UCW.
As John Ireland from Merseyside Amal and a Communication Workers Fightback supporter said, in opposing an amendment to the instrument of amalgamation, 'the veto is the cost of the merger'.
The left actively campaigned within the conference for a merged union to unify all the grades below management in the Post Office and British Telecom in one industrial union.
Removing the veto will be part of a fight to fully democratise the merged union.