The CWU Information Service/Library
- The Library/Information Service is part of the CWU Research Dept. and exists primarily to respond to enquiries from CWU Officers and Executive Committee members, but will also attempt to meet all reasonable requests for information from outside headquarters, particularly from branches and members.
- The Library contains records of all CWU documentation such as Conference and Policy reports.
- The Library is also responsible for managing and maintaining the Union’s archives, mainly comprising Letter to Branches (or forerunners); Branch Officials’ Bulletins; Committee documents and industrial agreements.
- There is also a substantial collection of books, journals and reports on the industries in which CWU members work.
- The Library specialises in postal services and areas of telecommunications such as policy and regulation.
- Other areas of interest to the CWU such as financial services, industrial relations, employment law, equal opportunities, health and safety, pay and conditions of service are, also covered.
- Other collections include a reference collection; a statistical collection and an annual reports collection.
- We also have access to a number of online resources including LexisNexis, Xperthr and Labour Research Department.
- This web OPAC [linked below] enables you to locate books, pamphlets, periodicals and periodical articles held in stock. If you cannot trace the material you require please contact the Library.
To request information or arrange a library visit please contact: Denis Lenihan at: ‘dlenihan@cwu.org’ or telephone 020 8971 7279
SUGGESTED READS
All Day Long: a Portrait of Britain at Work review – is our labour really working?
Joanna Biggs’s fascinating book of case studies – from sex workers to special advisers – looks beyond jobs-boom spin to study the UK’s real working life
Blacklisted: The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists
Author: Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain
Blacklisted tells the controversial story of the illegal strategies that transnational construction companies used to keep union activists away from work.
http://newint.org/books/politics/blacklisted-secret-war/
Articles and Reports:
Special Report – The Young: Generation uphill
Published: 2016
Subjects: Young People; Young Workers; Employment; Education; Mobility; Families; Violence; Politics
Series: Economist, 418, 23 Jan. 2016 – Special Report: the young, 12pages
The millennials are the brainiest, best-educated generation ever. Yet their elders often stop them from reaching their full potential, argues Robert Guest
http://www.economist.com/printedition/specialreports?year[value][year]=2016&category=76982
Estimates of Employee Jobs Paid Less than the Living Wage in London and other parts of the UK
Published: Office for National Statistics 2015
Pagination: 22p
Subject: Living Wage
Subject: Pay
The impact on women of recession and austerity
TUC – 11 March, 2015
This report, prepared for TUC Women’s Conference 2015, takes stock and looks at how women have fared through recession and austerity. It finds that while progress on some headline measures of gender equality has continued – the employment and pay gap have continued to narrow, for example – some women are facing new hardships and barriers to equality…
Health and safety law 2015
This new edition of the Labour Research Department‘s annual guide to health and safety law has been updated to include all the latest legal and other developments in health and safety over the past year. It covers new regulations, HSE guidance, significant court cases and the implications of new legislation. Written with union negotiators and safety reps in mind, Health and Safety Law 2015 is an essential tool for reps and full-time trade union officials to use when negotiating with employers to ensure that workers are fully protected while at work
http://www.lrdpublications.org.uk/publications.php?pub=BK&iss=1782
The mythology of business
The ‘myths’ that this publication takes into consideration are the kind of things that politicians now routinely say without thinking. Yet these 10 myths have very little foundation in reality and are rarely, if ever, accompanied with any concrete evidence to support them.
By David Whyte -Published August 2015
http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/mythology-business
The Living Wage: an economic impact assessment
Type: Business and industry issue
Date: 06/07/2015
KPMG has analysed the economic impact of raising the Minimum Wage to the Living Wage and concludes it would take just 1.3 percent of the national wage bill, lifting six million people out of poverty.
Through the Roof
The housing market: Britain has one booming market that could do with a crash
Published: 2015
Subject: Housing
Subject: Economic Policy
Series: (Economist, 416 (8957), 26 Sep. 2015, pp27-28)
Protect the Right to Strike – kill the bill
Authors: Ewing, Keith & Hendy, John
Published: Institute of Employment Rights 2015
Pagination: 17p
Subjects: Trade Unions; Trade Union Ballots; Trade Union Law; Strikes; Industrial Action
The Trade Union Bill has now passed its second reading and the government is attempting to rush it through parliamentary procedures. Here two leading experts on trade union rights –Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC – publish a short but comprehensive overview of the Trade Union Bill and its implications.
http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/protect-right-strike-kill-bill