Questions about the "equalisation"....

[SMS1969]

@thefox seniority is king for things that it is supposed to be used for - repicks, redundancy etc.
Finishing early, first pick of overtime, first pick of annual leave etc are not what it is designed for.
Don't take it as an attack on seniority, it's the abuses of it.

Seniority also shouldn’t be used to pick on ‘junior’ posties who might be struggling on a duty, basically taking the pi55 out of them while they have the pick of the easier duties. This is bullying and should be dealt with, but never is. It’s backfired recently as one of the newer recruits, well 4 years in so ‘junior ‘ postie ( which is also offensive) landed an easier duty than most of the seniors,annoying them greatly.

[pieoftheday]

@thefox seniority is king for things that it is supposed to be used for - repicks, redundancy etc.
Finishing early, first pick of overtime, first pick of annual leave etc are not what it is designed for.
Don't take it as an attack on seniority, it's the abuses of it.

Seniority also shouldn’t be used to pick on ‘junior’ posties who might be struggling on a duty, basically taking the pi55 out of them while they have the pick of the easier duties. This is bullying and should be dealt with, but never is. It’s backfired recently as one of the newer recruits, well 4 years in so ‘junior ‘ postie ( which is also offensive) landed an easier duty than most of the seniors,annoying them greatly.

What is meant by easier duties?

[SMS1969]

@thefox seniority is king for things that it is supposed to be used for - repicks, redundancy etc.
Finishing early, first pick of overtime, first pick of annual leave etc are not what it is designed for.
Don't take it as an attack on seniority, it's the abuses of it.

Seniority also shouldn’t be used to pick on ‘junior’ posties who might be struggling on a duty, basically taking the pi55 out of them while they have the pick of the easier duties. This is bullying and should be dealt with, but never is. It’s backfired recently as one of the newer recruits, well 4 years in so ‘junior ‘ postie ( which is also offensive) landed an easier duty than most of the seniors,annoying them greatly.

What is meant by easier duties?

Not so many addresses on the duty - 591 I was told,doesn’t get overly hammered with tracked, tends to be one of the first out and back …

[steve1873]

....of "new starts pay, terms and conditions."
What qualifies as a "new start"? We have, in my DO, 12 years of 30 hour contracts with nobody made up to full time, all on vastly differing contracts.

Despite Martin (and this isn't a dig at him personally) repeating the company line about "equality" being looked into, and offering more hours to P/Ters to reduce agency pay, we have all been told that Tuesdays are now a "no overtime" zone as the legacy contract staff with SA are clocking out early every Tuesday. This means tomorrow I'm getting in at 8am to 3 days unprepped mail, 3 days non-tracked and whatever Amazon hell arrives in the morning. Last Tuesday us part-timers (over 40% of the DO) all arrived as the F/T staff were tied up and leaving, having left the frames that didn't directly affect them untouched. Then loads of them clocked out early again, so we get penalised financially for their behaviour.

"Work your time and go home" is all fine unless you're arbitrarily punished by the company for the actions of other staff.

The equalisation is for staff that started December 2022 onwards, who are all on a lesser hourly rate and inferior terms and conditions.

[tramssirhc]

The question is what has the CWU agreed and what does the CWU know. Harmonisation may not be equalisation. The CWU is at all the meetings and has all the figures. Is the constant turnover of workers the means to create harmonisation? Only the CWU can tell you.