Martin Walsh says the latest 3 years pay deal is worth around £980 million
Restoring 3,500 duties nationally would cost approximately £94 million
There have been around 6,000 contractual uplifts
And RM claims that delays to USO reform have been costing the business around £20 million a month since July last year
So where exactly is all the money going when for many of us on the shop floor:
- overtime has been cut right back
- duties are failing left, right and centre
- workloads are still being absorbed
- mail is still building up with trays of mail, days worth in the frame and weeks of D2Ds un-prepped
- managers being told to reduce costs
Yes, most of us have had a 3% pay rise but according to many colleagues that's been completely dwarfed by the complete absence of any overtime. I can imagine that if somebody was regularly doing 10 hours+ overtime a week then they will be a lot worse off despite the small pay increase.
RM talks about improving QoS, so how is that going to happen? More duties? More (lesser paid) staff? Better equipment? More automation?
I understand that COMs are under pressure to reduce overtime spend, but if nothing tangible is being provided in return, how exactly is QoS supposed to improve?
Where is this additional capacity coming from to improve quality?