INDUSTRIAL ACTION BALLOT: FINAL KEY MESSAGES

[TrueBlueTerrier]

INDUSTRIAL ACTION BALLOT:
FINAL KEY MESSAGES

In the next week or so we must put all our efforts into securing a YES vote in the national industrial action ballot.

A further letter and a DVD has been sent to all members’ home addresses. These communications need to be supported with face to face dialogue in the workplace.

We need to be clear and consistent on the reasons why we are asking our members to vote YES – but we must also spell out the very serious consequences of what a No vote will mean.

Please focus on the following key messages:

A YES VOTE IS A VOTE FOR FAIRNESS

• Only a YES vote will maintain the pressure on Royal Mail and secure a national agreement with a shared vision of modernisation in the interests of the workforce and our customers – not just the company.

• Only a YES vote will secure a new Job Security Agreement that reflects the sheer scale of change we are all facing. Sustainable jobs, an agreed full-time/part-time resourcing mix, no compulsory redundancies and genuine choices for our members over their future.

• Only a YES vote will ensure our members are rewarded for change. Higher pay, a shorter working week, better attendance patterns, quality time away from work, including weekends.

• Only a YES vote will deliver a better and fairer local working environment. The pace of change can only be dictated by what people can cope with and workload must be based on agreed standards – not unachievable budgets.

• Only a YES vote will keep the pressure on Government to resolve the pensions problem and end unfair competition.

• Only a YES vote will stop Royal Mail imposing change by diktat and restore the principle that underpinned the 2007 deal – “that we would work together and introduce change by agreement”.

A NO VOTE WILL MEAN:

• Royal Mail will do whatever it wants – the pressure on CWU members will become unbearable – there will be no union to turn to.

• A No vote will give the company the green light to turn Royal Mail into a part-time industry and this will lead to compulsory redundancies.

• A No vote will give Royal Mail the green light to intensify their attacks on our members’ pensions, pay, earnings and conditions.

• A No vote will give Royal Mail the green light to introduce change on their terms and their terms alone.

WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LEAVE ROYAL MAIL TO ITS OWN DEVICES.

POSTAL WORKERS DESERVE A FAIRER FUTURE

Original in PDF

02696 Reps Brief-Final Message.pdf

[delboy]

That has secured a YES vote from me.

[prowler]

I've always been a YES man.

[Phantom]

It was a YES from me in 2007 and this is just picking up where that shitty agreement left off so its a YES again!

[Fred B]

I don't need a DVD, letter from the union or even a personal visit from the EC to get me to vote YES. I only have to see the way our DOM speaks to people, speaks about people when they're not there and throws little tantrums every day. That's reason enough for me to vote YES.

[brothermagrew]

I don't need a DVD, letter from the union or even a personal visit from the EC to get me to vote YES. I only have to see the way our DOM speaks to people, speaks about people when they're not there and throws little tantrums every day. That's reason enough for me to vote YES.

Well Said

[Dee Plish]

Yes

[islfor]

YESSSSSSSSSSSS

[wakkono]

we are only a smallish unit and we have no rep as all the reps we had before seem to get picked out by management and sacked somewhere down the line for trivual offences
we had our ballot papers today and we havent even had a visit from the area rep
no face to face comms from the cwu at all

[POSTMAN]

we are only a smallish unit and we have no rep as all the reps we had before seem to get picked out by management and sacked somewhere down the line for trivual offences
we had our ballot papers today and we havent even had a visit from the area rep
no face to face comms from the cwu at all

You're on here,you've been on here a while,you know enough,fill 'em in.

[wakkono]

downloaded all the posters and flyers and put em on the fittings, dom came around and toook em all away lol
told em all but im not a cwu official!!

[andy2007]

You could always go for the Reps position yourself.

I'm going for the H&S Sub Rep position myself, as our current Sub Rep is standing down this time. I won't neccessarily get it (more than one Candidate), but it's an opportunity to try and do something about the situations we keep finding ourselves in.