CWU backs PR

At its annual conference today, the Communication Workers’ Union adopted strong policy in favour of Proportional Representation.

👏 The moment CWU conference voted to back electoral reform 🔧 We are duly updating our website 🫡

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We worked with union activists to table a motion to CWU conference back in 2022, which resulted in the union committing to a review of its policy on electoral reform.

This finally happened last autumn at a special political forum event, addressed by Professor Rob Ford. Credit goes to our friends at Politics For the Many for supporting CWU activists through this process - and in preparation for today's conference.

Today, CWU completed its journey by backing PR. Composite motion 13 instructs the trade union to:

• Engage with the CWU membership on the need for electoral
  reform and the benefits of Proportional Representation.

• Reject First Past the Post and support the introduction of a
  form of Proportional Representation that maintains the
  constituency link and in which all votes count equally and
  seats match votes.

• Call for the Government to hold an independent Commission
  for Electoral Reform

• To engage with other like-minded trade unions to achieve
  electoral reform.

This means trade unions representing three quarters of Labour affiliates now back PR. The pro-PR unions are:

• ASLEF

• CWU

• FBU

• MU

• TSSA

• Unite

• Unison

• Usdaw

Their support is going to be hugely significant as MPs mount a major challenge to First Past the Post - and push for a National Commission on Electoral Reform.