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- ↑ Who's Who:CWU GS Billy Hayes' profile Archived 8 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "THE union boss behind the postal strike is on an annual salary package of nearly £100,000,four times the national average pay."
- ↑ "CWU general secretary Billy Hayes defeated by deputy in ballot", BBC News ,16 April 2015
- ↑ "Pro-Corbyn candidates sweep the board in Conference Arrangements Committee election".
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