Subject: CWU Response to Royal Mails Mail Centre Strategy

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Coy of letter sent to members of the CWU NE Division Face Book page

Hi Everyone,
please see below the content of a letter we sent out at Midnight on Friday

Cheers
Bob Mc

Dear Union member,
Re:-Royal Mail’s Mail Centre Review.

During the last 24 hours’ you will have received a briefing outlining Royal Mails strategy for the future of the Mail Centre network in the North East Region / Division. It is crucial that you understand that this is Royal Mail’s strategy, it is a proposal that has been shared with the CWU and it is not agreed.

The CWU are now entering a 12- week consultation process where we will be examining all of the information Royal Mail have used to come to their proposal. Gary Hodkinson Divisional Rep will take the lead in coordinating all activities for the CWU on the Mail Centre strategy. He will however, be fully supported by Bob McGuire, Steve Halliwell Divisional Reps, Roger Pheasey (Technical Services) and all the Branches and Area Reps in the North East Division.

We intend to work up alternative proposals to Royal Mail’s strategy of only having three mail centres in the Division within the 12-week period. We will be working closely with your Area and local CWU Reps and CWU HQ to present our findings to Royal Mail in writing offering a different strategy to the one they have just announced. We have called a meeting of all Area Reps next Thursday to discuss our next steps, and how we intend to involve as many people as possible in the consultation period.

We understand how worrying the announcements will be for our members but please understand that this is the initial consultation period, and we will do our utmost to secure an agreement that ensures all options have been considered by the business for a future mail centre strategy.

Yours sincerely

Gary Hodkinson Bob McGuire Steve Halliwell Roger Pheasey
Communication Workers Union North East Divisional Representatives

[hubbahubba]

dingo mentioned something about regional meetings between the CWU and RM on the subject of MC closures recently.Now the union has RM's proposals on which MC's they want to shut,isnt it only right we are given this infomation,or is this to be another joint stitch-up job like the last pay deal?

[jockstrapp]

Now you will reap what you sowed..................................R.M. will f#ck the lot of us and don't expect any support from the QUISLINGS that are the CWU.

[swoosta]

If Rm says the mail centre review is a proposal why has the Hemel Hempstead mega office site been purchased already, i think minds have been made up.

[andy2007]

It's not the only one. There's at least one other site (in another region), that they've been preparing for several months.

[dodger162]

Where abouts is this other new site?

[andy2007]

Great Sankey, in Warrington. It's where they want to merge the Crewe and Liverpool MCs.