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Royal Mail workers have endured 'roller coaster' few years, says union
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The postal group needs a ‘change of direction’, said Communication Workers Union leader Dave Ward.
Royal Mail workers have endured a “roller coaster” few years as a bitter dispute over pay and conditions has been followed by speculation over the postal group’s future, a union leader has said.
Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said the Royal Mail needed a “change of direction” as he criticised the company’s current model.
It comes as Royal Mail’s owner, International Distributions Services, rejected a £3.1 billion takeover approach from Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, who is already the largest shareholder.
The Royal Mail needs a new ownership and governance model that builds a postal service for the workers and customers
DAVE WARD, CWU
Analysts expect another bid to be made.
Mr Ward, speaking at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth, said: “It has been a roller coaster for employees in the past few years, going from being key workers during the pandemic, then involved in the most brutal industrial dispute I have ever seen, a debate about the quality of service and now a takeover bid.”
Mr Ward said handing over the ownership of one of the UK’s most prestigious organisations to a foreign investor “cannot be right”, but he added: “Neither is the current model or direction of the company.
“The Royal Mail needs a new ownership and governance model that builds a postal service for the workers and customers and not one built solely focused on shareholder payouts and driving down the service and the terms and conditions of workers.”
The CWU is also campaigning against any attempt to reduce the frequency of mail deliveries.
Royal Mail has proposed cutting second-class letter deliveries to every other weekday after regulator Ofcom suggested the company could reduce the number of delivery days.
The postal group needs a ‘change of direction’, said Communication Workers Union leader Dave Ward.
Royal Mail workers have endured a “roller coaster” few years as a bitter dispute over pay and conditions has been followed by speculation over the postal group’s future, a union leader has said.
Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said the Royal Mail needed a “change of direction” as he criticised the company’s current model.
It comes as Royal Mail’s owner, International Distributions Services, rejected a £3.1 billion takeover approach from Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, who is already the largest shareholder.
The Royal Mail needs a new ownership and governance model that builds a postal service for the workers and customers
DAVE WARD, CWU
Analysts expect another bid to be made.
Mr Ward, speaking at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth, said: “It has been a roller coaster for employees in the past few years, going from being key workers during the pandemic, then involved in the most brutal industrial dispute I have ever seen, a debate about the quality of service and now a takeover bid.”
Mr Ward said handing over the ownership of one of the UK’s most prestigious organisations to a foreign investor “cannot be right”, but he added: “Neither is the current model or direction of the company.
“The Royal Mail needs a new ownership and governance model that builds a postal service for the workers and customers and not one built solely focused on shareholder payouts and driving down the service and the terms and conditions of workers.”
The CWU is also campaigning against any attempt to reduce the frequency of mail deliveries.
Royal Mail has proposed cutting second-class letter deliveries to every other weekday after regulator Ofcom suggested the company could reduce the number of delivery days.
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Re: Royal Mail workers have endured 'roller coaster' few years, says union
And it continues. Just by glibly announcing the idea of alternate 2c deliveries is unnerving. There is zero trust in the owners of the company - no one believes they have a Scooby.
’You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.’
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Re: Royal Mail workers have endured 'roller coaster' few years, says union
The old guard has had it so much easier than everyone else.but no more Mr nice guy no more Mr hehehehhehehe
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The roller coaster hasn't stopped yet. The deceitful, dishonest, bullies that run the company won't stop until they've got a company full of teenage robots, who don't think for themselves, don't have a personal life and run themselves into the ground for minimum wage
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That’s what it seems like to me. From the start it has seemed as if their main aim has been to break any notion of seniority or staying on a pick etc.Philbag70 wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 12:42The roller coaster hasn't stopped yet. The deceitful, dishonest, bullies that run the company won't stop until they've got a company full of teenage robots, who don't think for themselves, don't have a personal life and run themselves into the ground for minimum wage
’You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.’
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Ward and co just need to get in with the company and sort a decent redundancy package out and give them that want to go a chance to get out . the jobs f****d and will only get worse .
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That ship has long sailed.worktotime wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 13:47Ward and co just need to get in with the company and sort a decent redundancy package out and give them that want to go a chance to get out . the jobs f****d and will only get worse .
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worktotime wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 13:47Ward and co just need to get in with the company and sort a decent redundancy package out and give them that want to go a chance to get out . the jobs f****d and will only get worse .
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Re: Royal Mail workers have endured 'roller coaster' few years, says union
That's what we're hoping for bit I think there's that many that want out it's hard,royal mail know most of their staff want out
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Re: Royal Mail workers have endured 'roller coaster' few years, says union
To correct the rollercoaster metaphor, the last two years we've only been ratcheting up the incline and plenty of colleagues have already stepped off. The wild ride hasn't started yet.
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Re: Royal Mail workers have endured 'roller coaster' few years, says union
Not sure I agree, the young'uns that come through our DO will not be walked over and many wont work a minute past their 25hr contract, they have lives to livePhilbag70 wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 12:42The roller coaster hasn't stopped yet. The deceitful, dishonest, bullies that run the company won't stop until they've got a company full of teenage robots, who don't think for themselves, don't have a personal life and run themselves into the ground for minimum wage
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Why would the Company give us a "Decent" Redundancy package when the Businesss is losing Experienced Staff at an incredible rate?worktotime wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 13:47Ward and co just need to get in with the company and sort a decent redundancy package out and give them that want to go a chance to get out . the jobs f****d and will only get worse .
You only offer Attractive Redundancy Packages when you've got to shed staff who don't want to leave a decent job, and you need to get rid of them. We're already doing that for them, many without any kind of Redundancy Package, because we're sick of the way the company's been run into the ground and staff are treated.
If you want to go now's the time. I wouldn't hang around on the chance that RM's going to beg you to leave, and offer you a Golden Handsake!
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Re: Royal Mail workers have endured 'roller coaster' few years, says union
thanks for your offer but i think i will stay until the company is sold off then i will walk away with summat in your pocketDorset Plodder wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 21:42Why would the Company give us a "Decent" Redundancy package when the Businesss is losing Experienced Staff at an incredible rate?worktotime wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 13:47Ward and co just need to get in with the company and sort a decent redundancy package out and give them that want to go a chance to get out . the jobs f****d and will only get worse .
You only offer Attractive Redundancy Packages when you've got to shed staff who don't want to leave a decent job, and you need to get rid of them. We're already doing that for them, many without any kind of Redundancy Package, because we're sick of the way the company's been run into the ground and staff are treated.
If you want to go now's the time. I wouldn't hang around on the chance that RM's going to beg you to leave, and offer you a Golden Handsake!
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