Postal workers offer alternative to office closure

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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POSTAL workers at a closure-threatened sorting office in Worcester are asking Royal Mail bosses to look at alternatives.

About 100 staff employed at the depot in Wainwright Road in Warndon met at the Blackpole Inn to discuss their next move, after postal chiefs announced plans to axe the site and move work elsewhere.

The meeting yesterday was called by the Communication Workers Union.

Staff voted to table a counter-proposal to their bosses which would see another sorting office in the region shut, and the Worcester site take on the extra work.

Brendan Allen, CWU rep for Worcester, said Royal Mail chiefs would have to study the feasibility of the alternative plan and come back to staff with a response.

“We will know in about six weeks what their response will be,” Mr Allen said.

“Almost all of the staff voted to try to keep the work here, and are keen to fight the current proposal as it stands.

“We’re not going to go on strike, we’re going to work within the process and see what is said about our counter-proposal.”

A 90-day consultation process on the plan to shut the site is currently under way as Royal Mail seeks to reduce the number of sorting offices in the region from seven (including Worcester), to four.

[hubbahubba]

But the end result would be the same surely?If they take another offices work,then what happens to the staff at that office?Isn't it just a case of "i'm alright jack",or am i missing something??

[DGP1]

But the end result would be the same surely?If they take another offices work,then what happens to the staff at that office?Is isn't just a case of "i'm alright jack",or am i missing something??

No, I think you're right in your view

[POSTMAN]

Doesn't seem right,anyone know the area?

[fishtank]

Sounds a bit naughty to me.

[barbario]

Please believe me,Royal Mail won't change their mind,Worcester is as good as closed. They have taken the same attitude regarding the East london Mail Centre closer.Royal Mail were given a good alternative to keep the East London Mail Centre open and its felt they didn't even look at it.

[benn2261]

But the end result would be the same surely?If they take another offices work,then what happens to the staff at that office?Isn't it just a case of "i'm alright jack",or am i missing something??

hubba i love your picture where do you work.

[teesdale]

I expect their after Gloucester mail centres work. South West region the last to announce which mail centres are to close will decide shortly. Gloucester is outside the region but has been linked to South West (Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth) and also Swindon in Thames region. Lots of wealthy people in the Cotswolds near Gloucester though and GCHQ.