RMCtv : An update on talks with the CWU from Ricky McAulay

[Post69]

Is this one of the three guys that had to be called to the trade and industry select committee and had to swear under oath that’s never happened before in the select committee because of their persistent lying (sorry unable to give an honest answer just in case I get sued or sacked) I haven’t bothered reading this or watching it because if they can lie (sorry unable to give an honest answer when under oath) what is he capable of when he’s in his own environment? If I was him I’d be still ashamed to show my face! Just goes to prove these people have no moral compass what so ever?

[1617mel]

It will be the same over all offices, the DOMs,COMs, will say all is fine in their office to senior management , in truth There are so many staff shortages, where people have left no been replaced, so the COMs go round everyday and ask the OT Kings if they want OT ,this happens everyday, its still not enough but enough for the lies that they spew out everyday , most everyone claims OT everyday, apart from the people who still work through breaks etc,I'm thinking they will reintroduce pre start time OT again so as the sorting is done maybe 30 mins earlier each day, so the costs for this must equal or surpass the savings made with the revisions, said my piece, they should have left well alone!

[guardianangel]

This guy and the other two should be in prison after all 3 lied under oath ,maximum prison sentence 7 years and we have 115,000 witnesses,the Tories are in on it all too and it wouldn't surprise me if Starmers Labour do too.Another Great British company ruined by greed.

[mjd24]

Oh my God the effing million pounds a day thing ARGH shut the F up about it you useless morons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[exetererica]

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[Grads75]

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Ricky Says

Hi, I'm Jasmine I'm here today (reading from a script) to speak with Ricky McAuley about the latest on the Union discussions. So Let's Begin by touching on the media coverage this week the company is obviously in a very serious position, isn't it?

Ricky

Well, we have said for some time that we are losing a million pounds a day and there are two things impacting the company at the moment, the 1st is a very very challenging economic environment caused by multiple factors that were having to respond to and the second is the business has been damaged by the industrial action we've seen so far and the £200m of Lost revenue this year. But it is both factors that are having an impact and what can people do about it, it's what we've been trying to do back in October away started the process of revision activity in the operation to right size operation to the revised level of workload, that's how we stop losing a million pound a day and clearly, alongside that we're trying to land a pay and change you for our people that very much at the heart of it is got equally how to respond to that trading position and do the right things for our customer's that will help the business grow in the long term with that growth that will deliver job security for everybody in the organisation.

It's been difficult for everyone it's probably the most difficult bitter dispute that any of us have been involved in, I say that for the trade union as well as it's not been easy for the trade union that are striving to get the best deal for the members that's the role of the trade at the trade union and for all of our employees that are looking for pay and alongside that looking for long-term job security and in the recent talks we have started to make some progress we've moved closer together on certain issues.


But we really do need to secure the change to our network that make sure we can be brilliant for our customers in the long term and it is that that will generate the turnaround trading performance and with that the ability to release pay to our people and grow in the long term with that the job security that clearly is so important to everyone.

Jasmine
And so let's bring it back to why we're looking to make the changes that go alongside the deal.

Ricky

I think it's worth going right back to the start because whether we have explained it well enough or not, let me go over it again so some of the changes to our network and ways of working, being less dependent on air transportation, people in the delivery officesup and down the country probably don't see what the problem is everyday, cause the mail arrives in the delivery what they don't see over lengthy periods at Christmas is the volume we can't get on the air network for next-day delivery what they probably can't see the growth on next day parcels, parcel consiments,boxes that are getting bigger and bigger and bigger and trying to connect through air transportation overnight which is an hour flight sector vs moving it through a mode of transport that's a better quality service low CO2 and our customer's increasingly saying show CO2 poor parcel and lower unit cost is to not to move it through the air over night with all the downsides on liability high CO2 quality, is to move it through road rail based network. unfortunately, that means the parcels and letters did they want to continue to deliver together in the main arrived later.

So we're not doing it to be difficult or to Discrupt people's lives but doing it because we know we can and historically have not been able to serve our customers in a way that satisfies them that allows us to secure the growth in the market and compete head-on with some of the other carriers in the UK and none of which use air transportation they have better reliability than us they have got lower costs than us and with that main network change which has been one of the biggest concerns of colleagues which I do understand, we need to get that change, if we don't get that changed we will be misleading people in terms of long-term job security cause we are not going to have a network that we can grow based on air transportation it could be the parcels getting bigger all the time, there's limited suppliers even want to transport overnight and it's not the best solution for our customer's

Jasmine
So how about revisions what's the latest?

Ricky

These revisions that we've been trying to progress with the CWU since October and we want to do the agreement we have been working on that for almost six months now trying to persevere to get an agreement, we can't wait any longer it's the one way of turning the fortune of the company around and I think we've got another 184 delivery revisions to deploy another 12 mail center revision to be agreed and deployed we will be looking to do that over the month of April because we must, and just on this topic I do want to say a huge thank you, there's hundreds of units in the country that have taken significant steps and productivity they have realigned to the workload they're clearing every day and delivering great quality for the customers we need every unit to do that, and I understand we've been in dispute, that's just not realistic our future depends on our ability to take the cost line down in response to the workload decline we've seen otherwise will continue to have the issue of a million-pound a day as one of the key parts of the plan and a huge thanks to everybody that's making that work locally and the local managers need the support and cooperation of the team locally to make those revisions a success and I think it's important to recognise whilst we have some challenges we've also got some brilliant examples of when people do pull together that Royal Mail can be it's absolute best

Took a pay freeze or cut then Ricky along with the other top brass to help out???

[Post69]

Oh my God the effing million pounds a day thing ARGH shut the F up about it you useless morons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes they are still trying to firmly put the blame on to every single postal worker in the country as to why “we are losing million pounds a day” like Darren jones said “it’s everyone’s fault bar you three nothing to do with me governor” fn unbelievable they are pathetic individuals who have no shame whatsoever

[Shadedpostie]

Just reaffirms to me that this company is f****d long as Dumb Dumb and Dumber (Simon, Keith and this tool) is still behind the helm of this company if this is still their stance. And all us poor bastards getting caught in the crossfire. A joke.

[Moose67]

What about the 35 hour week you and your mob agreed to Ricky

[redlen]

Did they agree??

[Jb1969]

Operations Manager…joke in itself.
Is this individual so detached from reality he actually believes RM are giving great quality.
Does he not go into any DO unannounced to see the failures!
It’s one of them bang your head against wall cos the so called elites really don’t have a clue.
Bit like our Politicians really.

[roman]

Is it just me or was that letter a very hard read. The grammar was terrible. I found myself nodding off half way through.

[redlen]

Is it just me or was that letter a very hard read. The grammar was terrible. I found myself nodding off half way through.

That was nothing compared to a CWU LTB Gobbledygook.

Plain English is not one of their strong points

[BenacreNick]

Hey Exeter Erica.

We have 8 vacancies and you are welcome to join us

[norris9]

Is someone at the CWU typing up the agreement right now....

I guess we'll hear about it tonight.