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BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION 2010 (DELIVERIES)
The agreement has now been published following 3-months of negotiations. We are going to try and simplify the logic around the national agreement on deliveries.
Delivery Spans;- Will be negotiated locally, this is a fantastic opportunity for us in the North East to create more full time jobs. The Health and safety of everyone is paramount to the negotiations and all elements of a delivery walk will be looked at to ensure everyone’s health and safety at work is guaranteed.
THERE WILL BE NO MAXIMUM DELIVERY SPAN!!!!
Health and Safety;- The agreement ensures everyone will have a safe working environment and that weight over the shoulder will literally be a thing of the past. The agreement ensures that all “tools for the job” will be available to ensure that delivery methods will be introduced with the revisions. The two preferred methods for delivery will be using high capacity trolley’s for deliveries within a mile of the office and car derived vans for duties more than a mile away from the office.
you'll be taking all the packets.
The walk spans will be what fits the office best taking into account mail arrival patterns and local situations. Time will be built in to use cars or trolleys and as such a natural 3.5 hour span increases because of slower walking speeds, increased attendance call rate and the replenishment of mail from boxes or the van without even delivering to any more houses.
It will almost like being on holiday, when you are doing longer deliveries.
The revision Process;- The agreement now ensures there is full involvement of the CWU throughout the revision. The process ensures that joint objectives are agreed right from the start so we can introduce more full time working and more Saturday’s off with innovative duty patterns.
The
temporary revision process prevents RM introducing revisions under EA,
it expiers in 2013! please make a note in your diary this is when we will be asked "to save the union" again with another national strike, i'm off down the bookies to check the odds.
Early Shift allowance (grandfather rights):-The agreement transforms current shift payments into basic pay. Yes this is controversial however, please be aware that the following is a fact. Every time someone left the business with grandfather rights on their early shift allowance that money was lost entirely for the Union Royal Mail “bagged” all of the savings from that. In a nutshell the outgoing payments for the grandfather rights was diminishing rapidly £3 million last year alone! The union had to make a decision to trap as much as this as possible and put it into basic pay or lose it forever.
Don't remmember the grandfather rights being sold like that in 2007, even although it was just as obvious then.
•We have an opportunity to shape the success of the industry through vastly improved agreed revision processes.
•We have an opportunity to increase the amount of Saturdays our members can have off across the forthcoming years.
•We have an opportunity to safeguard our future.
•We have an opportunity to increase basic pay year on year.
•Your support so far has been fantastic and the CWU are doing everything possible to safeguard the future of your jobs and our industry for the long term future.
.We have a temporary revision process.
.The CWU is safe, keep paying your subs.
.God knows what terms and conditions we are going to sign away for the next pay rise, since you now have none left.
.I bet you never thought you would be striking for this!
Your Choice, Your Future!
Please think carefully about the agreement take time to understand the overall aim of the agreement, which is to safeguard your jobs, your future and our industry in a difficult economic and commercial climate.
Communication workers Union North East Division
Please act in haste, then rerpent at your leasuire
