abouttoburst wrote:Hello, first time poster here! I am a delivery postie with 16 years under the belt. My duty is a village, a road in a town and some flats. I have a van which only does 11 miles a day, its classed as a rural but the delivery is urban. My delivery span averages five hours a day. Yesterday after three hours sliding on black ice I returned to the office and told them I was too scared to complete my delivery. Now awaiting wilful delay interview. If I complain about the proportion of delivery in my full time day I get told they will reduce the hours to 30 if I want less work, but the delivery would be the same, someone else would prep it and bring it out for me to deliver onfoot . We have 8 union members in an office with 30+ staff. No officaial union rep, last office spokesperson gave up due to lack of interest in rest of oppressed workforce(Yep that was me!) Now tired depressed and worried about my job. Don't want to go off with stress, don't want to lose my job, love being a postie and part of this community but totally demoralized- any suggestions? ( And no I can't shoot the manager, though the dartboard has been taking a bashing where his picture is!)
You are going to need help from your branch with this.
Have you been officially threatened with wilful delay or are they just trying to pressure you into completion.
In my opinion they have NO CHANCE of making wilful delay stick under these circumstances
You and i know this is not a rural delivery but as long as they are classing it as such you will have difficulty reducing the outdoor element.
It may be better for your own sanity to use your seniority to change duties.
Of course that means someone else will face the same problems.
Offices with weak union support like yours will be hammered by RMs plans for 2010.
Then maybe the staff will wake up to the realities of what they are facing.
Unfortunately by then it may be too late.
I would like to know what CWU HQ plans to do nationally to protect offices like yours.
