NoSurrenderX wrote:fishtank wrote:NoSurrenderX wrote:
They probably will but it will still be in work load.....lets say 500 calls so 500 letters per duty with D2D items in workload with individual items on specific days is still a lot more than -500 items and individual items on certain days in workload. We will still have the £20.60 payment.
I will remind you that it's less than 17% of 500 letters per day which adds up to the square root of feck all in indoor workload terms and about 2% on your callrate for outdoor workload.
"We will still have the £20.60 payment"
Well just how permanent is permanent?
A message from Billy Hayes, General Secretary and Dave Ward, Deputy General Secretary (Postal) from 2007.
"Early shift allowance in delivery will be permanently retained"

It has been retained in the delivery supplement.....I don't have all the answers and you cant please everybody. I am just trying to look at the agreement in a different way to the clowns that just hear about the D2D and say the whole agreement is "Shite" Whats the alternative? Go back out on strike? Tell Royal Mail to turn down work and stay at 3 items per week? 26 licences were agreed last year to allow competitors to handle/deliver mail. TNT and others are putting their own people out on the streets delivering leaflets because we refuse to do anymore than 3....they will start doing their own letters as well...Same city to city to start with then who knows?? This agreement stabilizes us and gives the business the chance to make more money. We need to get the idea that the company owe us anything out of our head. We have a good deal to where we were 6 months ago. If you don`t like it then vote no. Atleast think about what will happen if we deliver a no vote. Do you think Royal Mail will say here you go boys/girls here is another £30 a week? have another hour off your working week? have a £3000 lump sum? and please yourself how long your delivery is??
Well of course you are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to make sweeping statements about the suitability of this deal that clearly does NOT promise what is on the tin.
This deal was never about money, certainly not about amassing great wealth but really a pay cut? However we get to the real reasons for the strike and I will let my best mate explain what the strike was about and how we have fared against them:
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Job Security - nothing in this deal guarantees job security, lip service is paid to it but neither full time nor part time jobs are secured
Benefit - well we are benefiting marginally but it will take 3 years
Better working conditions - well by no stretch of the imagination have those been improved, longer Saturday, unspecified delivery span, uncapped D2D, unseen revision tools, slimline IR framework in 6 months time again sight unseen.
So should we accept this as the reward for supporting the union for strike action and giving them our trust - the answer is NO.
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