Darlington Royal Mail workers urged not to strike

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Royal Mail workers are in Darlington are “deeply unhappy” and discussing strike action after the loss of six jobs, with further cuts being proposed.

300 Communication Workers Union members have been balloted at Darlington Mail Centre, which has seen nearly 100,000 items transferred to Tyneside, according to a union statement.

Branch secretary Brett Giroux said: “Our members are deeply unhappy that their hard work, high efficiency and excellent quality of service have been ignored by Royal Mail in the decision to move work from Darlington to Tyneside.

“We have continued to press our case that the work should remain in Darlington, with offers to discuss alternatives to the transfer of the work being flatly refused by Royal Mail.”

“This is a huge concern for this branch and the members over what the future might hold for Darlington Mail Centre.”

But Royal Mail have siad the changes are necessary, and does not affect any full-time staff.

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "We urge our staff at Darlington Mail Centre not to vote for strike action over the transfer of a small proportion of mail processing work to Tyneside Mail Centre.

"The move affects a small number of temporary, part-time staff, and is designed to improve our operational efficiency so we are better equipped to meet the combined challenge of increased competition and the continuing falling volumes of mail while providing our customers with the best possible levels of service."

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A Royal Mail spokesman said: "We urge our staff at Darlington Mail Centre not to vote for strike action over the transfer of a small proportion of mail processing work to Tyneside Mail Centre.

In my office it was x company is cutting jobs and y company is also cutting jobs so you're lucky to still have a job and the DIM was reading it straight off an A4 sheet sent by his bosses.

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A Royal Mail spokesman said: "We urge our staff at Darlington Mail Centre not to vote for strike action over the transfer of a small proportion of mail processing work to Tyneside Mail Centre.

In my office it was x company is cutting jobs and y company is also cutting jobs so you're lucky to still have a job and the DIM was reading it straight off an A4 sheet sent by his bosses.

It isn't just us getting the thin end of the wedge, we had an audit a couple of weeks ago on a discipline I am partly responsible for and I was in the managers office for two hours nearly today trying to make a case for some of the failings because he has to go to answer for our sins tomorrow at 9 - TBH the guy who did the audit was a total a*se and used the same failings over and over again simply to make himself seem important - the upshot of it is we are short handed at crucial times and the DOM can't employ people to cover, everyone knows the pressure on lockers and callers staff now with increased specials, tracked and those bloody PDAs ................. so things go a-begging.