CWU Live - Martin Walsh and pay negotiation delay

[SpacePhoenix]

The trials/pilots began in our office and many others around 5 years ago....
Still carrying on to this day.

Spot on. This all started in 2020 when the CWU forced postal workers out into the pandemic because dangerous work was Terry Pullinger's preference over furlough. Whilst he sat in his home doing nothing. The pandemic paved the way for what's happening today. Profits over lives, over jobs.

RM's hands were probably tied by the USO and the Postal Services Act. Also RM would have probably lost lots of contracts to rivals, would you rather have lost your job?

Probably would've been paid furlough instead of losing jobs. Don't forget the old chestnut of 'fourth emergency service' being banded around for delivery staff...

More likely they'd have just offered unpaid leave to anyone who didn't ant to come in

[Acca Dacca]

Remember Rico Back brought in Tracked only Saturdays for a spell during the Pandemic as what was surely a trial for things to come

[Perseus]

The trials/pilots began in our office and many others around 5 years ago....
Still carrying on to this day.

I've speculated as to whether the emergency situation allowed the company cover to run an experiment on alternate day delivery and whether the years of data that would have been logged under relaxed regulatory conditions brought them to this proposed model, which is merely a formalisation (de facto becomes de jure).

What I would ask is: we've been doing this for five years so aren't the savings already being made? It can hardly be from dodging any more fines from Ofcom - the company has already made clear a few million here and there means nothing.

Are the saving already being made? Of course they are. But when have you ever heard of a private company saying, ‘ok let’s stop there, that’s enough profit/savings’.
It’s become policy to understaff offices and let them run a version of this new way of working.

[Valentina@1]

This financial year has 100% been profitable for RM…..company gonna come out with “we’ve just about broken even” and CWU will just agree to it.

Keep this receipt it’s coming

[buchanpeter]

This financial year has 100% been profitable for RM…..company gonna come out with “we’ve just about broken even” and CWU will just agree to it.

Keep this receipt it’s coming

Maybe a good thing the pay talks are delayed. Like u say the union and RM are saying the company might just break even.
But we should get the results in May.
If the company has made decent profit then it puts a bigger payrise on the table. Put the CWU in a better position to bargain.
Don't forget they want savings on £300m from USO on top of any profits currently made.
With those savings the company could easily pay us 10% payrise this April. Anything below 6% is a no from me.