Cwu head office waste of time and area rep and unit rep

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Royal Mail can't stop an office from forming a union comitee and neither can a rep. Preferably pick some full and part-time members. The rep deals with management and reports back to the committee. The committee can take some of the pressure off the rep by communicating directly to the staff by way of a monthly report and the members can bring up any issues directly to the committee. Just takes a bit of organising and a photocopier.

It's a way of keeping staff in the loop, encouraging union engagement and keeping the rep straight.

Absolutely right.