CWU Update on Of Com Report

[manfromuncle]

Shall have to see what happens under Labour. Be interesting.

[flimflamman]

Shall have to see what happens under Labour. Be interesting.

Politicians can be easily persuaded to change their minds with the offer of a well paid advisory position within the company, all well within the rules of course

[Valentina@1]

Dave Ward the hypocrite this bloke has enabled all of what's going on,the bloke is a 2 faced toerag.

[dazzler123]

According to Sky News, our glorious PM has no intention of letting the USO be axed..
Shows, even an arsehole can get it right once. Law of averages I suppose.
Either way it’s quite funny.

He will say whatever he thinks is most popular with the public. And then he will do what’s better for his cronies.
And then he will delete his WhatsApp messages and waffle on about something else.

RM will get what they want eventually.

if Ofcom have okayed the 3 days mail, thats whats coming. Just a matter of time

[manfromuncle]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... er-service

Doesn’t look like the company will have anymore luck with Labour either.
We’ll see.

[Mr Rush]

Our unit had 100% out every day on strike when Dave Ward said we needed to fight. I believe if the CWU called for industrial action again over the USO, there'd be 100% in our unit going into work.

This is Simon's great achievement - he really did vanquish the union. Who needs a no-strike clause in agreements anymore when the union's capacity to take industrial action is blown? The leadership wouldn't dare and, having been marched up the hill and back down again, the membership doesn't care.

[hans solo]

Shitebag ward talking shite surprise

[Seymour Buts]

The union are right to oppose this due to the inevitable job cuts that will follow, but purely from an objective point, I do agree that in this day and age the 6 day service is no longer required. Call rates on a Monday and Tuesday now are barely 20% in terms of letters on my walk. I'd be surprised if they're 40% even on a Wednesday. Our second mech 'tray' is now a tiny bundle. One tray has 5 or 6 different walks second mech now, with an elastic band round each bundle.

[Nickvilla20]

The union are right to oppose this due to the inevitable job cuts that will follow, but purely from an objective point, I do agree that in this day and age the 6 day service is no longer required. Call rates on a Monday and Tuesday now are barely 20% in terms of letters on my walk. I'd be surprised if they're 40% even on a Wednesday. Our second mech 'tray' is now a tiny bundle. One tray has 5 or 6 different walks second mech now, with an elastic band round each bundle.

I doubt many of us would oppose them dropping Saturday letters but they just don’t want to stop at Saturday they want to drop 2 extra days to which would mean heavy workloads everyday of the week.

[LouBarlow]

The union are right to oppose this due to the inevitable job cuts that will follow, but purely from an objective point, I do agree that in this day and age the 6 day service is no longer required. Call rates on a Monday and Tuesday now are barely 20% in terms of letters on my walk. I'd be surprised if they're 40% even on a Wednesday. Our second mech 'tray' is now a tiny bundle. One tray has 5 or 6 different walks second mech now, with an elastic band round each bundle.

My new build estates have houses I don’t deliver to for weeks and weeks.

[Ren Hoëk]

The union are right to oppose this due to the inevitable job cuts that will follow, but purely from an objective point, I do agree that in this day and age the 6 day service is no longer required. Call rates on a Monday and Tuesday now are barely 20% in terms of letters on my walk. I'd be surprised if they're 40% even on a Wednesday. Our second mech 'tray' is now a tiny bundle. One tray has 5 or 6 different walks second mech now, with an elastic band round each bundle.

My new build estates have houses I don’t deliver to for weeks and weeks.

I deliver to a large new build estate and they get plenty mail on some days and f**k all on others. Same as any other street really. Packets through the roof though. Demographic tends to be young families who do allot of online shopping.

[SpacePhoenix]

Our second mech 'tray' is now a tiny bundle. One tray has 5 or 6 different walks second mech now, with an elastic band round each bundle.

That would be the 2C extract system in action. On inward sort plans any 2C items that aren't due for delivery that day get extracted and then run with the wave 1 the next day. Some batches I can get the bundles for all the walks into 1 tray.

[adamanti]

Regardless of everyone's views be it ofcom government union management, the company cannot continue to make huge losses! Something will have to give and a move to lesser delivery days for mail will come, just a case of when and in what form. As allways will suit some but not others, but will mean a rather drastic reduction in staff. Just my view.

[enskied]

Regardless of everyone's views be it ofcom government union management, the company cannot continue to make huge losses! Something will have to give and a move to lesser delivery days for mail will come, just a case of when and in what form. As allways will suit some but not others, but will mean a rather drastic reduction in staff. Just my view.

A company/ business doesn't have an absolute right to make a profit year on year regardless, just because it is a company/business.
Why should a Product Development Manager get an ongoing increasing salary if they are not coming up with initiative and profitable new ideas.? Not loss leaders like free collection, there's no such thing.
Why ? should a CEO be paid Hundreds of thousands of pounds or Millions for simply slashing a wage bill by ridding itself and reducing the wage or job of its lowest paid workers. No efficiency no vision, Whilst surely seeing that the management structure and wage is the the drain on finance, not earning their crust.
Why should Royal Mail be paying Planners a high wage to plot a delivery route, when a postie can do it better faster and smarter....

[chickenwittle]

This gets more bizarre by the day , Martin Walsh on the radio today saying how we can play a role in social care moving forward.He also says union are up for a discussion regarding dropping the Saturday but not reducing to 3 or 4 day service.