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Communication Workers Union (CWU) - Union representing workers in the postal and telecoms sector. Includes large members-only section, featuring discussion forums and a large links database.
Stockport and District Amalgamated Branch - Just a list of branch officers' names.
Leeds & Bradford Clerical Branch - Details of member's rights, news, membership and general information about the union.
London East Branch - News, details of forthcoming meetings and events, contact details and legal services.
London South East Branch - "The branch for the new millenium" -- including a big picture of the Dome.
Communications Workers' News - Donald MacDonald's site - essential reading for CWU members.
South East Number 5 Branch - Website of the largest branch of the union. The Branch area covers over 100 miles end to end and includes such towns as Reading, Maidenhead, Basingstoke, Guildford, Redhill and Crawley.
Darlington Amal Branch - The site for members of the Darlington Branch of the Communication Workers Union
Telecom & Cable Worker UK - Resource for workers and trade union activists in the UK telecom and cable industries, edited by Donald MacDonald.
Manchester Power Branch Website - The webpage of the Manchester Power Branch of the CWU Union.
Central London Engineering Branch web site - Our Branch of the Union represents over 3,500 telephone engineers in the Central London area.
Exeter Engineering Branch - The Exeter Engineering Branch Site of the Communication Workers Union. For Branch Members
Mid Lancashire Branch - Website of the Mid Lancs Branch with over 900 members.
Manchester Engineering Branch - The Manchester Engineering Branch represents the interests of people working in BT and the Cable Communications Companies in Manchester and the North West of England.
North East - POCL - For members working for POCL in the North East.
Plymouth and East Cornwall Branch - Live chat with the branch secretary on Sunday nights.
Bournemouth and Dorset Branch - The website for the members of the Communication Workers Union (UK) Bournemouth & Dorset Branch - Visitors from other branches welcome.
South Wales Branch - A merged branch formed from the previous South East Wales Clerical, Abergavenny, Bridgend, Cardiff and Newport Engineering Branches, with around 1,600 members from Engineering, Clerical, Mitel, Postal Engineering, Transport, Filcom and NTL.
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Branch - The Official web site of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Branch of the Communication Workers Union (UK).
North Midlands CWU - North Midlands branch of the Communication Workers Union - covering the Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford and Crewe areas.
South East Regional Committee CWU - The site of the South east Regional Committee. Visit our site and join the CWU, the union for you.
CWU Merseyside Amalgamated Branch - Based in Liverpool, includes sections for counters, delivery, distribution, parcel and other workers.
Open2all.org.uk - Learning centre set by the North Lancs and Cumbria Branch of the Communication Workers Union. The centre is open to union members and their familes.
Birmingham CWU - News, campaigns and health and safety advice for Birmingham postal workers.
CWU West Midlands and Worcestershire Branch - Includes a notice board, and next branch meeting details.
Roger Darlington's Homepage - Information for workers in telecommunications and information technology plus reviews of trade union films
London Regional Committee CWU - Part of the Communications Workers Union. A London site without a parochial outlook. First stop for London members in British Telecom, Post Office, cable workers and call centres.
Leeds Engineering Branch - Information about the group and their aims, diary of events and member services.
Northern Ireland Clerical Branch - Contact details only.
North East Anglia Engineering Branch - We represent around 1200 people in the Northern part of East Anglia mainly employed by BT. We also look after the interests of a smaller number of members in other companies.
Bedford CWU - Local branch news, collective agreements and contact details.
Eastern Number 5 - Regular updates and links to other branches. Official site.
London CityWest CWU - Representing workers in telecommunications, cable TV, broadcasting and other communication companies, with news, health and safety updates and campaigns.
Northamptonshire CWU - Regional Communication Workers' Union branch for Northamptonshire. Includes branch bulletin, news and message board.
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Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Communication Workers Union The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley When people talk, listen completely. 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Chesterton Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Communication Workers Union Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Communication Workers Union It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Communication Workers Union The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Communication Workers Union It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Communication Workers Union "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Communication Workers Union It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Communication Workers Union The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Communication Workers Union "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) What's new? Most of my wife. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Communication Workers Union "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Communication Workers Union I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Communication Workers Union Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Communication Workers Union "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Communication Workers Union
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