Anti-Agreement Leaflet

[flyingfish]

Royal Mail/CWU Agreement 2010 – What’s In It and How Does It Affect You?
6.9% Pay Rise Over Three Years? (2010 2%,2011 1.4%, 2012 3.5%)
3.5% in 2012 is not guaranteed-“..flexibility to reopen this element..in response to unforeseen events..”) only 2% and years of ‘marked time’ for those merging/closing on higher RRISS money.

£400 to “vote yes”:You are going to get it in June anyway as a ColleagueShare payment!

£1000 Lump Sum bribes: 2-3 phase payments linked to revisions (cuts in hours/increased workloads) and dependent on deployment of walk sequencing machines – What happens if you don’t qualify for the payments, will you still be paid them?

Deliveries: Non-pensionable £20.60 a week. Ending payment for individual D2D items, no cap restricting D2D items to 3 per week (so heavier workloads for potentially less pay), ending early shift allowance. More full-time jobs going part-time. More “flexibility”-no set maximum delivery time span.

Processing, Collection Hubs and MDECS: One off £75 and £8 weekly non-pensionable –some from funds already earned in existing productivity scheme funds (PBS/ICS/ESOS).

“Job Security/Managing the Change” = Thousands of jobs losses.75% full-time/25% part-time“ flexible workforce” .But “The exact ratio will vary locally depending on the current local mix” and “subject to ongoing review”?

“MTSF Amended Terms”?: Cutting elements while boosting others (ETE) for a limited period.

Cutting VR Pension Enhancements =less pension: aged 54-64 VR pension enhancements cut from the current maximum of 6¾ years to 3¾ y years. Losing workers thousands off their pensions!

Ring-Fencing Bribe for “Yes” Votes: 6 ¾ year pension enhancement available only until 30 September 2010.

“Modernisation – A Shared Vision”? Management and CWU brain washing of postal workers to “align” them to the “commercial success” of the company i.e. its profits, above anything else.

“Transforming Relationships” A No Strike Deal?: Ending “ past adversarial relations and poor employee relations”.

Pay Off for CWU HQ?: “a professional financial relationship with funding arrangements on a more consistent footing”.

LOOK BEYOND THE CASH BRIBES!
THINK OF THE LONG TERM EFFECTS OF THIS AGREEMENT ON YOUSELF AND OTHER WORKERS! VOTE ON THE DETAIL-NOT SPIN! PASS IT ON-COPY or EMAIL

[mr deeds]

this is not an anyi agreement leaflet "it's fact"