CWU gives backing to Richard Leonard in Scottish Leadership Election

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10th October 2017

 

CWU gives backing to Richard Leonard in Scottish Leadership Election

 

Today the Communication Workers Union has announced its support for Richard Leonard in the Scottish leadership election. The CWU will be encouraging all of its members in Scotland to vote for Richard Leonard.

 

General Secretary Dave Ward said: “Richard Leonard is a strong trade unionist and friend of the CWU. Richard strongly supports our union’s fight for the Four Pillars of Security, for universal broadband access for all and for a publicly owned Post Bank.

 

“We need a bold agenda for radical change in Scotland and we know that Richard is offering this. We are starting to witness Labour’s message of hope cutting through and we believe Richard Leonard is the man to take it forward”.

 

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Notes to editors

 

  • The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is the biggest trade union in the communications industry with 190,000 members in post, telecoms, mobile and financial services companies including Royal Mail Group, Post Office, BT Group, EE, O2 and Santander.
  • The CWU is the fifth biggest affiliate to the Labour Party.

 

 

For further comment / interview please contact pressofficer@cwu.org / 020 8971 7442