Romford, Croydon, Jubilee, Gatwick & Greenford Mail Centres

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A joint communication agreed by the following Divisional Committees: Anglia, London, South Central and South East

An Open Letter to CWU Members in Romford, Croydon, Jubilee, Gatwick & Greenford Mail Centres

Dear Colleague

Last Thursday (28 February) Royal Mail rejected the CWU’s alternative proposal for London. This alternative proposal would have closed one Mail Centre in London, closed Rathbone Place Delivery Office, and kept open East London pending a review post the Olympics 2012. In addition, it demanded from Royal Mail an absolute guarantee that there would be no compulsory redundancies as part of their decision to close the London Mail Centres.

Royal Mail’s decision to reject the union’s counter proposals will mean that for the first time ever, Royal Mail will be imposing compulsory redundancies on CWU grades. Royal Mail’s plan is to shut Rathbone Place Delivery Office, close East London Mail Centre, close South London Mail Centre and reduce staffing levels in the Mount Pleasant Mail Centre by 57%.

Under Royal Mail’s plan there will be 1,100 less jobs for London postal workers. This means that 1 in every 3 individuals will not have a job under Royal Mail’s plans. For full time processing staff the figures are far higher.

No full time processing staff in either East or South London will be able to move with their work to the Mount as full time jobs will be reducing from 944 to 410.

In East London’s case there are currently 351 full time duties. However, there are only 69 full time processing jobs in Romford. This means that 4 out of every 5 full time processing staff will not have a job when East London closes.

In South London they currently have 543 full time processing jobs and there are only 104 on offer in Croydon and 118 in Jubilee. This means there will be an unresolved surplus in South London of 321 staff (2 out of every 3 staff).

Royal Mail know that their plans will lead to compulsory redundancies. However, they believe it is a price worth paying to achieve their expected net profit value. We are banned from the Official Secrets Act from telling you how much Royal Mail stand to make but it is far higher than any other Mail Centre closure programme ever.

Royal Mail has sent out an unagreed preference exercise which only has one question on it. That question is: Do you want to leave the company on VR? This is unlike any other preference exercise and has been done to deliberately scare individuals into thinking that they have no other choice. Moreover they have now told all staff that unless they attend what they call an individual career decision with Clear Choice they will forego their right to select a duty. Clear Choice is a company called Reids who are employed by Royal Mail to achieve their peoples target and will do everything in their power to achieve it. In other words they offer staff the Godfather approach (an offer you can’t refuse).

These tactics are a clear demonstration of the worst kind of bullying by Royal Mail designed to force people into either leaving the business, or move to HWDC. The CWU will be informing the media of Royal Mail’s unprecedented and sustained campaign to bully workers in the London Mail Centres who are scared about their futures.

Yesterday (4 May), Royal Mail in typical fashion, announced that they intend to start moving work from London Offices as early as next week with work moving to Gatwick from 16 May. Work will go to Romford, Croydon, Jubilee and Greenford from June.

There is no agreement for this work to go from South London, East London or the Mount. In addition, there is no agreement from any Distribution Hub for this work to go to any Mail Centre.

You’re Division and local Branch has also not agreed for this work to come into your Mail Centre. There are no agreed duty schedules and this is unagreed work.

There is absolutely no doubt that if Royal Mail get away with moving the work to Romford, Croydon, Jubilee, Greenford and Gatwick, and this work gets performed, then individuals in South and East London will be made compulsorily redundant-forcing Members to leave Royal Mail against their wishes.

London Mail Centres will be balloted next week for Strike action and we believe that it is the intention of CWU Headquarters to ballot your Mail Centre in the forthcoming weeks over the issue of solidarity action.
Remember if they get away with compulsory redundancies in London then no one is safe.

Royal Mail’s new unagreed business plan states that their target is to reduce the number of Mail Centres to 30 which may mean that your Mail Centre will come under review next. Remember if Royal Mail gets away with Compulsory redundancies that will become the norm in the future.

Remember Royal Mail are breaking the Business Transformation Agreement. This Agreement states that the overarching objective is to avoid compulsory redundancies.

The CWU are therefore seeking your support to the following:

Support Your London CWU Colleagues By Rejecting Royal Mail’s Decision To Move Unagreed Work From London Which Will Trigger Compulsory Redundancies.

Support Your London CWU Colleagues By Not Agreeing To The Work Coming Into Your Mail Centre.

Support The Union By Voting Yes In The Industrial Action Ballot To Reject Compulsory Redundancies.

The Postal Executive will be holding meetings at your workplace over the next couple of weeks. Royal Mail have banned the CWU in London from holding meetings in workplaces as they do not want the members to hear the truth so it may well be that they will have to hold meetings outside. Please make sure you attend.

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