Hi, here's the Mount Pleasant bulletin of 14 May (sorry I missed two early April...). Comments welcome, as usual.
NO TO JOB CUTS!
We're told that about 20 of us will be made
"supernumerary" when the new USO pilot starts in W1
Deliveries next Monday! None of us here in W1 was
designated "surplus" before and we don't intend to be
now! The DUM tries to justify this by claiming that on
the days when only 1st class will be delivered, only 1
worker will need to be sent out with the delivery van,
instead of 2. And what about the other days, when
there'll be twice as many packets and letters? Won't
they need 3 or 4 of us?
MAKING IT UNWORKABLE!
We hear that their DUMB plan is to bring in 3 (or more?)
agency drivers when the pilot starts! Which is an
admission that the pilots cannot possibly work with our
current numbers! Or would they make
"supernumeraries" do indoor stacking, etc., while
agency drivers are on deliveries in order to somehow
claim the pilot a success? Whatever they have in mind -
we know it's our job to ensure they fail.
NOT A "PILOT", OF COURSE...
And for us in EC (not included in a pilot) we're told that
we'll be moving onto the new USO in July. Yep, these
"pilots" haven't even got going yet, and management is
already planning how to implement this attack on our
jobs and conditions. Well, here comes our plan to preempt
this...
HE NEEDS SOME VALIUM...
One manager said the other day that if the pilot doesn't
work out, it will be the end of everything here! Yes,
some poor DUMs are really losing it. And who
wouldn't, when they're asked to make the unworkable
work!
...AND A STRAITJACKET FOR THIS ONE?
Another manager who needs some rest is the nights
boss on the Parcel Sorting Monster. He gets a little too
excited when screens show that fewer parcels have
been processed than he expected. We could all do him
(and ourselves) a favour and just turn the screens off...
WHAT DO THEY THINK WILL HAPPEN?
Management in Processing offered a few of us so-called
"supernumeraries" duties with more hours than their
current derisory part-time offer. So now we've ended
up with duties we haven't chosen, or that we can't
actually do! The work won't get done - simple!
THEIR GAME IS PLAIN
And by the way, we aren't born yesterday, we know
managers are giving us unsuitable duties deliberately,
to try and force us to take their cut-down VR package.
They had better know that we are not going anywhere.
We are working to rule - and that includes not putting
either our health or safety at risk... their problem!
ALL FOR THE BEST, EH?
A message from union officials made the rounds on
WhatsApp telling us that EP Group's takeover was
confirmed. And, of course, the CWU leaders were
playing it up, saying that the new bosses couldn't be
worse than the old ones, which was the gist of their
press statement! In other words "welcome to the new
boss NOT like the old boss". We think however that
"The Who" got it right first time.
WE WANT MORE!!
The CWU leaders also put out a video on facebook at
the beginning of May, to say that negotiations on our
pay have only just started, more than a month overdue!
Martin Wishy-Walshy very helpfully tells us that every
1% of pay rise will cost the company £50m! Does he
think that is a lot? Too much? And why does he think
we might want to know this? In fact RM's pay delay has
already cost us!
CHEEKY BASTARDS
And by the way, with prices going through the roof, our
wages are lagging behind more than ever... This isn't
the first time management has delayed our pay rise. It's
a long-standing habit of theirs to delay it by two, three,
or even more months. They might then give us backpay,
but these delays allow them to sit on a pile of cash,
making extra interest for themselves... which belongs in
reality, to us!
WE DON'T "AGREE" WITH ANY OF IT!
In the same video, Wishy-Walshy again told us that
they'll also be discussing equalising terms and
conditions for new entrants, and how they'll reduce
agency staff - not by hiring more staff, of course, but by
increasing overtime. And apparently the incentive for
us to take on the overtime will be a slight increase in the
OT rate. He said we'll have yet another "agreement",
this time with EP group, to vote on at the end of May on
the assumption that we'd agree. As if we would!
NEED BRINGING DOWN TO EARTH
In Processing, why are we being told that we have to
use all our leave by August or lose it? When has this
ever been the case before? Every big company allows
workers to carry leave over to the next year, so why has
RM (or IDS, or whatever they're called now) decided to
stop doing this? What kind of petty, sad, world does
management live in?
MP'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARE
It looks like The Place canteen on Nights is being
deliberately sunk by management. Already we get no
fresh food - only the very meagre left-overs of the day...
Or over-priced little boxes with usually veggie food that
wouldn't nourish a toddler, let alone grown-up workers
working on the most tiring shift! We need to find a way
to revive this canteen... take time off our duties, invade
the kitchen and do some cooking? Or just call in
Gordon Ramsay?
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Sean06
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Re: 14/05/25 Mount Pleasant bulletin
Only carry-over leave has to be used by august.
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Is that what the CWU, 'it has to be right' © Martin Walsh, are allowing in the Mount? Agency workers to make the profit driven delivery method work. Boot that tinpot leadership of the union out.
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I agree get a vote of no confidence in against martin and dave and all the pec executives
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SkiSunday
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So processing at your MC aren't allowed any holidays for the last 4 months of the year?? Wow that is a massive breach of the human rights act 1998. Better get onto your union rep about that pal.
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Sean06
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Not in my mc no.quoting from the op.SkiSunday wrote: ↑16 May 2025, 18:06So processing at your MC aren't allowed any holidays for the last 4 months of the year?? Wow that is a massive breach of the human rights act 1998. Better get onto your union rep about that pal.
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Re: 14/05/25 Mount Pleasant bulletin
It's carried over leave that has to be used by August. It was the same last year for us. I'm sure it came out officially.
Sensibly our book room used our carried over leave first to book this years leave, alleviating any problems of carried over leave not being used by August.
Sensibly our book room used our carried over leave first to book this years leave, alleviating any problems of carried over leave not being used by August.
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Your are quoting half a sentence out of context and portraying it as a fact. Why would you do that?Sean06 wrote: ↑16 May 2025, 20:04Not in my mc no.quoting from the op.SkiSunday wrote: ↑16 May 2025, 18:06So processing at your MC aren't allowed any holidays for the last 4 months of the year?? Wow that is a massive breach of the human rights act 1998. Better get onto your union rep about that pal.
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NEED BRINGING DOWN TO EARTH
In Processing, why are we being told that we have to
use all our leave by August or lose it? When has this
ever been the case before? Every big company allows
workers to carry leave over to the next year, so why has
RM (or IDS, or whatever they're called now) decided to
stop doing this? What kind of petty, sad, world does
management live in?
Who can't read whole paragraphs?
Nowhere does it say they have to use all their carried over leave by August. It says "all our leave".
Maybe that isn't what s/he meant but that is what they said.
There are some real dimbos posting on RMC.
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SkiSunday
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Re: 14/05/25 Mount Pleasant bulletin
So they have to use all annual leave by "August?" okay dokeyclashcityrocker wrote: ↑16 May 2025, 22:02NEED BRINGING DOWN TO EARTH
In Processing, why are we being told that we have to
use all our leave by August or lose it? When has this
ever been the case before? Every big company allows
workers to carry leave over to the next year, so why has
RM (or IDS, or whatever they're called now) decided to
stop doing this? What kind of petty, sad, world does
management live in?
Who can't read whole paragraphs?
Nowhere does it say they have to use all their carried over leave by August. It says "all our leave".
Maybe that isn't what s/he meant but that is what they said.
There are some real dimbos posting on RMC.
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SkiSunday
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Re: 14/05/25 Mount Pleasant bulletin
So they have to use all annual leave by "August" then? Generalisation lol okay dokey. Massive apologies for confusing paragraphs and sentences buddy. f***ing nightmareSkiSunday wrote: ↑16 May 2025, 22:09NEED BRINGING DOWN TO EARTHclashcityrocker wrote: ↑16 May 2025, 22:02
Your are quoting half a sentence out of context and portraying it as a fact. Why would you do that?
In Processing, why are we being told that we have to
use all our leave by August or lose it? When has this
ever been the case before? Every big company allows
workers to carry leave over to the next year, so why has
RM (or IDS, or whatever they're called now) decided to
stop doing this? What kind of petty, sad, world does
management live in?
Who can't read whole paragraphs?
Nowhere does it say they have to use all their carried over leave by August. It says "all our leave".
Maybe that isn't what s/he meant but that is what they said.
There are some real dimbos posting on RMC.
