LTB 415/22 - CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING OUR NATIONAL DISPUTES : Simon's letter to CWU

[POSTMAN]

LTB 415/22 -CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING OUR NATIONAL DISPUTES
No: 415/22
19th October 2022

TO: ALL POSTAL BRANCHES



Dear Colleague

CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING OUR NATIONAL DISPUTES

Just as we were holding a live zoom session with our representatives, Simon Thompson CEO sent a letter to the General Secretary at exactly the same time as he published it on his Workplace channel. This was in response to a letter I sent him yesterday.

Please see attached my letter to Simon Thompson so that you have the full picture relating to this exchange of correspondence.

The CWU negotiating team met Royal Mail on Monday and were encouraged when the company indicated that they might be up for a different approach. The purpose of my letter to Simon Thompson, who absented from the meeting, was to establish whether he supported the position of his team.

We met with the Chief Conciliator from ACAS yesterday and her deputy and set out our position in our disputes. We told them that we were prepared to engage in serious negotiations with Royal Mail, providing the ground rules were established and agreed. This would need to include no expectation for the CWU to stand down any strike action.

Any ACAS discussion will continue exactly in line with the letter that we wrote to Royal Mail on the 7th October, previously circulated to Branches and Reps in LTB 400/22.

Regrettably, Simon Thompson’s behavior has shown once again that he is seeking to sabotage any prospect of serious talks and is not genuine about reaching an agreement with the union.

Finally, the union will not be discussing functional talks on Royal Mail’s Agenda for Change, until we have dealt with the fundamental issues about the company’s Business Plan and the unacceptable job losses, including the threat of compulsory redundancies, announced last Friday.

We believe that the CEO absenting himself from any future negotiations is a sign that his position as head of the company is now untenable.

Any enquiries should be sent to the GS/(A) DGS (P) Departments jdunn@cwu.org/hford@cwu.org.



Yours sincerely



Dave Ward – General Secretary

Andy Furey – Acting Deputy General Secretary (Postal)

https://www.cwu.org/wp-content/uploads/ ... on-RMG.pdf

https://www.cwu.org/wp-content/uploads/ ... FINAL1.pdf

18.10.22-Simon-Thompson-RMG.pdf

CWU-19-10-22-FINAL1.pdf

[daveyeff]

he is still in denial. ffs what a bloke. dead man walking i think/hope.

[POSTMAN]

Simon Says

Team - to be clear again - last week we did not say there would be - a new pay offer this week.

[Skuse]

STOP Saying TEAM YOU USELESS TWAT

[neviboss]

Simon, when you say team, you are talking to your entourage of directors and managers!

We stopped being YOUR team when you started to bully us, degrade us, anger us, dismiss us.

In fact I've seen refugees treated better.

Time to grow a pair and do one!

Retire, nobody else deserves to have you lording it over them, you've made your millions now F*&" off.

[Skuse]

Simon, when you say team, you are talking to your entourage of directors and managers!

We stopped being YOUR team when you started to bully us, degrade us, anger us, dismiss us.

In fact I've seen refugees treated better.

Time to grow a pair and do one!

Retire, nobody else deserves to have you lording it over them, you've made your millions now F*&" off.

[enskied]

What a c***.

[gac635834]

Royal mail - over 500 years of service from our ancestors.....and it takes a c*** like ST to bring it to its knees !

[qwerty2]

500 years
and he's destroyed it in less than 2 years

[postieblueshirt]

God almighty time to go honestly 20% increase and no changes and we still couldn't work with him at the helm zero respect.he will have to go regardless..

[BigSacks]

Perhaps the Union should consider asking the whereabouts of Keith Williams.

This was the man to solve problems we were told.
British Airways industrial relations, always a problem, sorted by KW.

Yet we hear nothing from him. Ever.
So why is the chairman paid so much yet heard from so little?

Particularly when he was chosen for this role with a view to his industrial relations skills? Plenty of favourable PR and newspaper puff pieces when he took up the role about how great he was at being the go-between.

Where is he now? Going between Simon Thomsons cock and balls?

[HTPostman]

Where is he now? Going between Simon Thomsons cock and balls?

Probably doing that in Simon’s cosy holiday home. Oops, bet not many know he has an expensive little second home up North in a nice tourist city. Don’t worry Simon, I won’t tell anyone, and definitely won’t give any clues out. Anyway, time for a cuppa and a kit kat

[neviboss]

Not far up the A19/A174 to go see The Scarlet Pimperne (KW), we seek him here, we seek him there, we seek hum every F'in where!).

[k979aaa]

The game is up ST just go get on with your life leave us be and let someone else run this once great public service.

[GRS]

Bollocks to all the niceties of asking him to go! Thompson drop dead you Cnut!!!