It is a funny old world where people call people names over the internet. How pathetic is that, clearly people who either have no argument , not read the agreement, or do not believe that someone else can have a different opinion.
For the record I am not from Heaquaters and dont conform to party line. However as some one who has always stood up for members rights and been involved in countless strikes including helping lead one of the longest last year in our union history which helped get the union back in the room then I am entitled to my opinion as I have earned it.
Guvenor , Proper position, Mr Deeds your really not worth answering as you simply have no agrument and just get personal. PM me if you want further discussion.
K979a althrough you call me a twat very classy , I will answer you in that of course the union had a policy 5 years ago in that they wanted the average wage and a 35 hour working week ( we have had policy since 1988 ). In 2003 the national wage stood at £243.16 after this deal it will stand at £393.73 which is an increase of £150.16 in 9 years , inner London weighting would have been increased by £194 and outer by £198. So the unions strategy of improving basic pay instead of over reliance on both overtime and allowances has worked. In terms of the shorter working week the hour off will mean that we are now working only 35 hours as meal reliefs are on top. We are at the very top of manual workers apart from the RMT and can you show me any other organisation in the trade union movement who has secured a shorter working week and a basic pay increase. You will not find one. In fact over 50% of claims resulted in no pay rises. Look at the BA dispute the union is offering to cut allowances in return for saving jobs, in PCS they are fighting to secure a redundancy package which is inferior to the one we have. You might choose to ingore that but its true.
Welshy if you recieve 2 items per week door to door and recieve the ESA then if you do not recieve them on average 10 weeks then you will start losing over 300 delivery points. If you have the maximum ESA £12 and you have 800 delivery points double the average you will lose £728 per year. However you have to also take into account over that period basic pay including the allowances will go up and by year 3 the package will be worth £2398.24 per year. But more importantly instead of being in a part time job with less pay you will have mostly full timers who attract higher pay. Part of this will be door to door. Equally remember the early shift allowance was by default for coming in at 0500 , when you have walk sequencing you will not have many 0500 starts.
Now bitchface very charming name. Your obviously for London and yes we have had problems with the interim agreement. It was hardly surprising given the fact we were involved in 20 days of strike action and everyone from Higson , Tolhurst , jenson down didnt miss a media opportunity to slag London postal workers off and not surprisingly some on this site joined in.
However we have at long last with the help of ACAS resolved all but 15 of the 98 imposed executive action revisions, The others we have meetings next week on, some of the 4 day weeks have now been restored for the following offices Wimbledon , Streatham , Southwark , Abbeywood , New Cross , Catford , Anerley and Finchley church end. We hope to conclude Islington next week.
I am a little confused about geo route as we have never had an national agreement on the model. Yet in hundreds of offices throughout the UK offices and members choose to agree geo route revisions which made it harder to achieve a national agreement. Royal Mail has now agreed to the union being fully involved in the planning values of geo route 2008 and the walking speeds have been reduced , and the number of attendance calls have been increased. We still need to overhaul the planning values and to test where neccessary in a live environment in line with page 22 of the national agreement title work measurement.
Your other point about colleague share is simply not true the £5300 has been halved due to financial position of Royal Mail. Remember Royal Mail letters made £50 million profit last year , the whole of the Post Office made £350 million profit but not letters. Royal Mail`s financial plan for this transformation is to reach £300 million profit by year 3 and they have agreed with the Government not to repay the commercial loan for the life time of the plan and it does not take into account the new pension deficit which is predicted to be £10 million plus. Equally a 5% traffic loss or revenue fall could wipe out the plan.
Its easy to slag someone off for having an alternative view but our grandparents fought Hitlers nazi Germany in order to have freedom of speech but that should come with respect and responsibility and above all determine what kind of person you are..
Sadly Bitchface your post lacks both and answer the third.
I always try and keep my post to the point and myself and Lovejoy in particular seem to get a lot of abuse from people who seem to have no argument but abuse.
