There we go again the CWU has to deal with the issues as they stand. Do you really think anyone at CWU HQs were not aware how un popular door to door items were in deliveries , The outdoor department recieved hundreds of letters per year on why they should be ditched. Every Conference a Branch would come and put a motion to cease door to door altogether , every year it was defeated. Even the opposition to door to door is split some on the basis of the pro rata payments , some on the fact that there is an increase with no extra payment and others because it is now part of workload. In fact some oppose all 3.
It was Royal Mail who insisted that door to door got put into workload as it was the only sure way they could improve quality and grow the product. Now what was the union meant to do , refuse Royal Mail the right to deliver mail ? In fact lets look at this in the round would a car plant union refuse to make the mini because they wanted to make Jag instead.
Afterall its work which brings revenue which in turn keeps jobs and pays wages.
Its very easy to suggust that it is the thought of the CWU , but no union should refuse extra work and the door to door into measured workload is extra work.
Now in terms of FTCs well there are over an hundred ftcs since the Headquarters LTB have now been made up to permanent. Others are in the pipeline. In some areas Royal Mail gave a different type of contract and the changed altered from a fixed term to a fixed event , now some staff would not have noticed this change and this is not acceptable and this is what CWU HQs are taking up.
Do you really think that if the CWU had not taken this up then the FTCs who had done two years would have had a job in Royal Mail ? Sometimes things that the union do go un noticed
