QUESTION YOUR MANAGER 4- USE AT WTL SESSIONS

[lovejoy]

Question Your Manager 4 – For Use at WTL sessions

Royal Mail has put a document to the CWU on which would drastically reduce our terms and conditions. Why is it that Royal Mail now chose to only promote sections of the agreement and keep the full story from us?

We have now entered a new phase is this dispute. All of Royal Mails plans are on the table and include major changes to the pension scheme. All managers are in this scheme so will you now support our action by not performing our jobs during industrial action or even better by urging the CMA to officially ballot your grade?

Do you think it is acceptable for us to bridge the gap in the pension fund after it was created by Royal Mail taking an extended pensions holiday?

Royal Mail says that the plans for network 2007 are very precise. Yet on the other hand they demand ‘total flexibility’. Surely if the plans for network 2007 were so precise structured duties would needed?

Royal Mail plan to be able to PERMANENTLY move our shifts by +/- 2 hours with only 7 days notice. They also plan to remove the protection of MTSF. This means we could be asked to move and have no protection for our allowances. Do you think this is acceptable?

The MTSF agreement also covers the terms for EVR. The business is looking to reduce staff by 40,000. Can you tell us what the terms will now be for EVR?

The business is looking at introducing annualised hours. They say we can work less in low mail periods (summer) and more in high mail periods (winter). We have already seen this summer that mail is not dropping off. In delivery offices managers have constantly been walking the streets and in mail centres managers become more like OPGs everyday. Against this background surely Royal Mails proposal would never work?

We are being offered a new productivity scheme based on local cost savings. Neither our union nor any of us have any input into local budgets. On this basis how can you expect us to trust and participate in this scheme?

Royal Mail proposes that D2D and election material goes into the daily workload of a delivery postal worker. How does the business plan to compensate us for the loss of money ALL delivery staff will incur?

Royal Mails plans for flexible working would make it impossible for any of us to have a life outside of work. It would also impact massively on our family / social life. How can Royal Mail seriously expect us to accept these Victorian working standards?

We are being told that Royal Mail has no money yet we see Area Management teams constantly growing. Salaries of £50,000 plus are common and these people have no direct affect on the operation. Is it a case of too many chiefs and not enough Indians?

Managers across the Country have tried and failed to get staff to work through strikes. Surely now even you can see that the plans of Leighton Crozier and Co will affect you as much as us and you should refrain from promoting the business propaganda?

2 years ago Allan Leighton and Adam Crozier were hailing themselves as the saviours of the postal industries after a ‘remarkable turnaround’. Now they say we are in our worst ever position. These individuals are the leaders of Royal Mail. In any other industry they would have been sacked. Is it now time for Mr Leighton and Mr Crozier to go?

[coppertop]

What a good post well writen and some very goo question to ask not that ant of the dum's in our office could answer ant of them. At the mo we have had pegasus just start and after the first day the dum's have all been out on delivery. And from what is being said there are 10 posties comming in on sunday to clear up the mail that has not gone out today , so there will be no office bonus for us in the forseable future. It is so nice to see the dum's so stressed as a bunch of spineless halfwhitts they deserve what they get

[coppertop]

I do believe that we should employ BUZZ LIGHTYEAR as our next chief executive

[TrueBlueTerrier]

to infirmary and beyond

[vigilante]

TO THE DOLE QUEUE -----AND BEYOND

[blackadder]

somehow i fink :lfo and :cfo wont be down the job center no matter what they do to us