A COUNTRY FOR THE MILLIONS NOT MILLIONAIRES – CWU RESPONDS TO GENERAL ELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT

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18^thApril 2017

A COUNTRY FOR THE MILLIONS NOT MILLIONAIRES – CWU RESPONDS TO GENERAL ELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT

Responding to the announcement today of an early snap General Election, CWU General Secretary Dave Ward said:

“We welcome the opportunity to fight for a new political settlement.This is a chance the labour movement must seize to fight for fundamental change. Working people are under greater pressure than at any time in living memory. The NHS is back in a critical condition. A whole generation is shut out of having a decent home, pension and care service.

“These are problems our members know all too well. We need a new deal for workers and a country that is run for the millions not the millionaires – this is what we have got to fight for. This is also why we have got to getbehind Labour and Jeremy Corbyn.”

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Notes to editors:

• The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is the biggest trade union in the communications industry with 195,000 members in post, telecoms, mobile and financial services companies including Royal Mail, Post Office, BT Group, EE, O2 and Santander.

For interview / further comment please contact:

Charlie Pullinger, CWU Press Officer 020 8971 7442 / 07793 314249 /cpullinger@cwu.org