CWU RESPOND TO GENERAL ELECTION RESULT

For immediate release
9th June 2017

CWU RESPOND TO GENERAL ELECTION RESULT

Responding to the General Election result, CWU General Secretary Dave Ward said:

“The election result heralds a change in the balance of forces in UK politics and there is no going back for Labour. Jeremy Corbyn and the leadership team deserve enormous credit for their resilience and for putting together a superb manifesto and campaign that brought Labour back home to working class people.

“There is work to do and no doubt there will be lots of developments to take into account in the hours, days and weeks ahead. The CWU will support Labour in every possible way to put the manifesto into practise at the earliest opportunity.

“Jeremy Corbyn is delivering a different kind of politics – unions must now build on this and deliver a different kind of trade union movement.”

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Notes to Editors:

• The Communications 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 7267 / 07793 314 249 /cpullinger@cwu.org