Royal Mail urges union to honour agreements

[TrueBlueTerrier]

12/06/2009


The CWU’s threat to customers of damaging strike action in London is completely at odds with its repeated claim to support modernisation and "to introduce new ways of working throughout the business". In May, the union stated its belief that "investment in, and the pace of, modernisation needs to be stepped up" and we urge them to act accordingly and not to call our people out on strike action which can only hurt our customers and damage our drive to build a strong and sustainable future for Royal Mail - and to protect the Universal Service in the competitive marketplace.

We call on the unions to honour fully existing agreements, including the agreement the union signed in the presence of the TUC in 2007, which have led to the successful introduction of new ways of working in units throughout the rest of the UK.

These agreements cover the changes we need to make in London as mail volumes fall at a rate of 10% per annum. Royal Mail has already made exactly the same changes in almost every delivery office outside London. As mail volumes fall we need to make changes and become more efficient right across the UK.

Productivity in Royal Mail offices in London already lags behind the rest of the UK with the productivity in parts of London now up to 35% below the best region and around 10% worse than the UK average,

The national agreement Royal Mail reached with the CWU in 2007 must be honoured fully and nationally, including in London offices. The proposed revisions in London ask no more of employees than in the rest of the UK and we are only putting in place changes that result directly from the changes to the amount and type of mail we are now carrying and which are already agreed with the CWU as part of the 2007 deal.


A strike will not modernise Royal Mail - it will simply disrupt the service to which customers are entitled, lead to an even greater loss of business and leave Royal Mail far less able to protect full time jobs.


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[oypostie]

And which national agreement included Pegasus and van sharing. Sit down Royal Mail with the union and sort out a national agreement and then whilst i might not like it i will honour it. Until then Royal Mail i think you deserve this

[janitor]

If RM really gave a s**t about it's service to customers they would not have scrapped the first delivery, would not have bought in later starts. The only time RM uses customers is when there is the possibility of strike action.

[k979aaa]

It is time royalmail honoured thier part of the agreement and worked with the union and not try to sideline it by breaking previous agreements and negotiated change if it is needed?.