LTB 201/23 - Recruitment Drive - New Entrants in Royal Mail Group

[POSTMAN]

https://www.cwu.org/ltb/ltb-201-23-recr ... ail-group/

LTB 201/23 - Recruitment Drive - New Entrants in Royal Mail Group
No. 201/23

28th July 2023

Dear Colleagues,

Recruitment Drive – New Entrants in Royal Mail Group

Further to the National Briefing at the Queens Hotel, Leeds on 25th July where the profile of Recruitment was raised. Branches and representatives will appreciate the importance of ensuring this activity across all Royal Mail Group workplaces, remains a high priority.

This is necessary more so than ever, as RMG have informed us they have embarked upon a significant recruitment drive and have already employed 1200 new starters in the past two weeks. It is crucial every effort is now made to recruit these people into the CWU and plans are put in place by all Branches to achieve this aim. Alongside this, Organising and Recruitment must feature prominently as an agenda item for all business based and Branch meetings.

We realise recruitment of new entrants on inferior pay terms and conditions is a new challenge. The Union is fully committed to securing improvements and fairer terms and conditions on a par with those recruited prior to 1st December 2022. The more new-entrants joining the CWU the better the chance of achieving success.

In terms of the wider organising and recruitment strategy, including a review of all supporting communications and recruitment literature, this work is ongoing at Headquarters. Once our plans have been finalised the intention is to hold a launch event via a national zoom call with all Branch Secretaries.

Recruitment into the Union is the responsibility of representatives at all levels and must be treated as a priority.



Yours sincerely,



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

[noggin1969]

Are

[rubberbond]

Wonder how many have left already ,once reality dawns.

[LouBarlow]

This seems desperate. Why would any new starter join a union that views them as second class workers? I wouldn’t want to be in charge of union strategy right now, as it must be a fine balancing act trying to appease old members while trying to entice new.

[enskied]

25 hrs. No contact, no overtime, no s**t.

[2chorizon]

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[Racingpostie]

Yeah we haven't stopped the company introducing watered down T&C, not to mention the inferior pay compared to all your colleagues you'll be working with but please give us a couple of quid weekly once you've started.....

[Clappedoutpostie]

but please give us a couple of quid weekly once you've started

Monthly

[mattick]

Has the union officially thrown in the towel? The union vehemently opposed the following

No two-tier workforce
No new sick policy
No performance related bonuses

these where officially declared red lines the union would not allow the company to cross. How many back handers did the union get for this?

[olilew]

Smarts of desperation from the union!

[enskied]

This seems desperate. Why would any new starter join a union that views them as second class workers? I wouldn’t want to be in charge of union strategy right now, as it must be a fine balancing act trying to appease old members while trying to entice new.

Lou spanning or spamming again,
Just post your door to doors and whistle your merry way Lou. There is no point in you posting as nothing affects you , your duty or workload... Oh you don't have one.
You attack the union more than anyone else on this site, it's all pernicious and backhanded.

[enskied]

This seems desperate. Why would any new starter join a union that views them as second class workers? I wouldn’t want to be in charge of union strategy right now, as it must be a fine balancing act trying to appease old members while trying to entice new.

Lou spanning or spamming again,
Just post your door to doors and whistle your merry way Lou. There is no point in you posting as nothing affects you , your duty or workload... Oh you don't have one.
You attack the union more than anyone else on this site, it's all pernicious and backhanded.

[seesred]

So the union which failed to protect the interests of thousands of members who found it became more advantageous to leave the business than remain, is now trying to recruit their new and less well remunerated replacements, who should already be aware of just how little influence the union now has. And, since working for RM is now little better than a gig economy job, what point in signing up for a union if you don't expect to be in post long enough to see any benefit.

[enskied]

So the union which failed to protect the interests of thousands of members who found it became more advantageous to leave the business than remain, is now trying to recruit their new and less well remunerated replacements, who should already be aware of just how little influence the union now has. And, since working for RM is now little better than a gig economy job, what point in signing up for a union if you don't expect to be in post long enough to see any benefit.

Nail on the head.

[postieblueshirt]

Reading this is actually bloody ridiculous.id laugh but it's not funny. unbelievable.