CWU : MESSAGE TO ALL CWU MEMBERS – SUPPORT THE STRIKES

[POSTMAN]

A MESSAGE TO ALL CWU MEMBERS – SUPPORT THE STRIKES

Dear members,
Thank you for your outstanding support for the strike action last week. In the face of serious intimidation from the employer – the strike was rock solid. This Wednesday and Thursday we must go again.
The CWU wrote to Royal Mail Group CEO Simon Thompson at the weekend, to seek serious negotiations to end this dispute. He has now replied and refuses to discuss anything other than the Royal Mail Group ‘best and final offer’ – showing no willingness to reach an agreement - other than on his terms.
Their so called ‘best and final offer’ would destroy your jobs, terms, conditions, and the service:

MASS JOB LOSSES AND COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES
You are being asked to pay for their gross mismanagement of the company’s finances.
The number of job losses associated with Royal Mail Group’s plans represent the biggest assault on any group of UK workers in decades. Unless we stick together, Royal Mail Group will force compulsory redundancies and will employ unlimited numbers of self-employed workers and new entrants on lower terms and conditions. They aren’t bringing these people in to work alongside you; they are bringing them in to replace you. There is no union or worker in the country that would accept this position.

PAY
On pay, they keep claiming they are offering 9% (substantially worse for Parcelforce and Fleet members) - you know this is not true and have seen right through it. We cannot and will not accept an offer that doesn’t include backpay and is linked to you surrendering your terms and conditions.
Royal Mail Group continue to display outrageous double standards on the question of affordability. Just today, we have revealed that managers will receive up to 20% of their salary in a bonus payment if they push through all these changes. One rule for them and one rule for you.

DESTROYING THE SERVICE
Their decision to vacate the AM delivery period will mean drastically later starts in every single business and function – destroying a 500-year-old service and your unique relationship with your customers.

INTIMIDATION
Royal Mail Group’s desperate strategy and attacks on our members and representatives is all part of the union and worker busting tactics. They want you to feel demoralised. They want you to feel as if the action is not working. We will continue to expose their lack of honesty and integrity in every media interview we do in the coming days.

WIDENING THE DISPUTE
We can also announce we are widening the pressure points. On December 6th we have set up a meeting with major Royal Mail Group shareholders. We will use this meeting to dismantle Royal Mail Group’s reckless plans and set out the unions vision for the future of the company.
December 9th is the next strike day after this week. We are going to call a national rally in London on this day. We want every single branch to bus you all to London. Tens of thousands of postal workers outside Royal Mail HQ – demanding his resignation. Media interest in this is already red hot.
We are also working on the idea of a CWU leaflet that we will ask members, families, and supporters to deliver to every household in the UK.

STAND TOGETHER
We know how hard this is, but you all know what’s at stake.
We are at a crossroads. The company are raging a war against their own employees. The CEO himself is creating a huge mental health crisis across the company and their reckless approach is destroying the service we are so proud to provide.
The only way through this is to stick together. Let’s deliver the biggest support for strike action yet.

Solidarity
Dave Ward
General Secretary
Andy Furey
Acting Deputy General Secretary (Postal)

[POSTMAN]

Friday 9th December is a strike day.

We are going to bring every member to London for the biggest strike demonstration this country has ever seen.
If Thompson won’t come to us then we will take you to him.

Branches will be asked to lay on transport.

[POSTMAN]

Hope they have picked the right day...

He doesn't even come in to work much...

Simon 'Where's the TV remote?' Thompson

for me - a day or two in the office, at least one day in the operation, balance at home - my commute to HQ is 4 hours there and back -

[POSTPERSON50]

Thompson is the figurehead, but the strings are being pulled by the entire board.
We have become aware that Royal Mail are well happy with him and have no intention of making a change at CEO level anytime soon.

The whole lot of them have to go.
No compromise can be made with a leadership who is prepared to treat it's staff like these people have done.

The strike action needs to have a seismic effect upon Royal Mail Group and we need to rebuild from a ground zero.

Things will never be the same again, but a new trust needs to be established.

No compromise, no talks. it's just papering over the cracks.

Bring the lot down over this next month.

[CRIBMAD]

Thompson is the figurehead, but the strings are being pulled by the entire board.
We have become aware that Royal Mail are well happy with him and have no intention of making a change at CEO level anytime soon.

The whole lot of them have to go.
No compromise can be made with a leadership who is prepared to treat it's staff like these people have done.

The strike action needs to have a seismic effect upon Royal Mail Group and we need to rebuild from a ground zero.

Things will never be the same again, but a new trust needs to be established.

No compromise, no talks. it's just papering over the cracks.

Bring the lot down over this next month.

no pain no gain !

[enskied]

Fighting for our rights. Our Union, ourselves.
Get behind our Union. That's all of us.

[SSkUNkY]

Thompson is an extremely unpleasant individual, one day he will get his comeuppance and few will have any sympathy.

[Redshadow]

No strike fund for members on the breadline,no confirmation of legal protection for striking xmas eve but we can bus you to london for the day

[rambo1]

No strike fund for members on the breadline,no confirmation of legal protection for striking xmas eve but we can bus you to london for the day

Got a point there.

[pieoftheday]

Are they going to use royal mail's d2d service to deliver those leaflets?

[sindba]

No strike fund for members on the breadline,no confirmation of legal protection for striking xmas eve but we can bus you to london for the day

There is a strike fund. Speak to your rep if you are in serious difficulty.

Agree the rally idea is a bit crap tho.

[walthmstowman]

No strike fund for members on the breadline,no confirmation of legal protection for striking xmas eve but we can bus you to london for the day

The union should re-ballot us again ASAP to extend the strikes .

[broughts]

It’s our jobs either way looking at the way things are panning out if we strike the deal goes or gets worse if we don’t strike then the deal is horrendous and un acceptable

[LouBarlow]

It’s our jobs either way looking at the way things are panning out if we strike the deal goes or gets worse if we don’t strike then the deal is horrendous and un acceptable

Yup. People who think that continual striking will somehow lead to improved terms or even the status quo are looking more and more deluded. ST doesn’t need an agreement to bring about the changes he wants. I’m afraid the job is changing and we either accept it or move on. I’ve not worked a single strike day in the now 3 disputes we have been involved in, over the years, but I am seriously considering my options now, as sending members to London for a jolly, seems like the best tactic the union can come up with now - the sides seem further apart than ever, so what is the point?

[Walter sobchak]

It’s our jobs either way looking at the way things are panning out if we strike the deal goes or gets worse if we don’t strike then the deal is horrendous and un acceptable

Yup. People who think that continual striking will somehow lead to improved terms or even the status quo are looking more and more deluded. ST doesn’t need an agreement to bring about the changes he wants. I’m afraid the job is changing and we either accept it or move on. I’ve not worked a single strike day in the now 3 disputes we have been involved in, over the years, but I am seriously considering my options now, as sending members to London for a jolly, seems like the best tactic the union can come up with now - the sides seem further apart than ever, so what is the point?

You wave the white flag and cut&run mate if you want but some of us refuse to roll over and have our tummies tickled by Simon Thompson.