National Situation with Royal Mail and the CWU

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 13:54:31 +0100


All,



Please see below e-mail regarding growing concerns around the increasing areas of dispute that affects all parts of the country. Please circulate to members.



Dave Armour, CWU Area Health & Safety Rep.





----- Original Message -----

Could all Branches send this correspondence to all Unit Reps throughout the North East Division please and ask them to circulate it to all members.
Cheers

Bob Mc


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From: e-mail bob.mcguire
Date: 27 May 2011 11:43
Subject: National Situation with Royal Mail and the CWU
Alison and all Directors,
You are no doubt aware of the serious situation that is developing Nationally between the CWU and Royal Mail.There are clear parallels between the introduction of a new Business Plan that downgrades the future expectations of the company, announcements on Colleagueshare and the Governments privatisation and separation agenda. These developments are at odds with the agreed shared vision of modernisation, the agreed approach to Business Transformation and other existing National Agreements. The Company’s actions in other parts of the country threaten existing job security commitments and raise the very real prospect of compulsory redundancies. The company’s actions Nationally and in parts of the country, and their open support for privatisation and separation has destroyed trust and confidence in the commitments to build a new relationship and develop a culture of mutual interest. Furthermore given the imminent and likely Royal assent of the Postal Services Bill, tensions will be heightened and the legitimate industrial concerns that potential privatisation will have on CWU members jobs, terms and conditions will come to the fore. As the owner of the company we recognise the Government will have had a direct input into the new Business Plan and decisions on Colleagueshare.

The CWU nationally are looking for the following and we would welcome your influence as Regional Directors on Moya Greene and the Royal Mail Group Board to ensure that in depth discussions can take place that secure the following ;-


•Agreements to extend and strengthen job security commitments with the absolute need to avoid compulsory redundancies in light of the new Business Plan and Governments privatisation agenda.

•An agreed joint action plan to get all Business Transformation revisions back on track. Central to this and in line with the agreement is the need to finally ensure a fair and manageable workload for all employees. This means an end to the unacceptable managerial pressures being placed on our members on a daily basis. Instead offices must be run on the basis of agreed local and nationally co-ordinated resourcing and manpower planning.

•Confirmation that our shared vision of modernisation is still at the core of all company and Government plans.

•Confirmation that Royal Mail will remain the sole provider of the USO within the UK and that Royal Mail will continue to operate as an end to end service provider with no further break up or sale of the individual Businesses or functions within the group.

•Agreement that there will be no casualisation of the workforce and that the delivery model set out in the National Agreement will continue to be supported throughout the duration of the new Business Plan.

•Agreement that in addition to the Government taking on the historical pension deficit, CWU members pension entitlements will be fully protected including the use of RPI as the measure of uprating pensions.

•In order to create a culture of mutual interest we need to reach agreement on a new form of governance including consideration of the principles of industrial democracy. This means ending the continuing command and control managerial culture that has been a constant obstacle to progress.

We believe that the work that has been done in the North East is second to none EG Mail Centre Strategy involvement and Delivery Revision influences, and we do not want to return to the "bad old days". We have proven when we work together we can get results for the Business, our members and the customer. Once again we would ask that you do everything possible to influence some of your key players Nationally because we are in a very serious situation where the policy of the Union is to take whatever steps are necessary up to and including National Industrial Action for all CWU members within the Postal Industry.
We would like you to contact us to discuss this e mail further.

Yours sincerely


Bob McGuire / Gary Hodkinson / Stephen Halliwell

[Cut Off King]

All very nice, but a bit late in the day.........

[gb93]

Is Bumper & Milky preparing us to join the fight, or just doing some empty tub thumping ?

[fishtank]

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We believe that the work that has been done in the North East is second to none EG Mail Centre Strategy involvement and Delivery Revision influences,

Anybody from the North East like to confirm/deny that bold statement?

[knackers0191]

im from the northeast, im right behind the union, but also agree with cut off king. bit too late in the day

[Dee Plish]

im from the northeast, im right behind the union, but also agree with cut off king. bit too late in the day

Exactly. The NEC recommended acceptance of the deal which led us into this mess. It's up to them to get us out of it.

[woofwoof]

Cut&Paste from this...http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communit ... 37#p388497" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

We believe that the work that has been done in the North East is second to none EG Mail Centre Strategy involvement and Delivery Revision influences,

Anybody from the North East like to confirm/deny that bold statement?

a load of s**t

[daveyeff]

Is Bumper & Milky preparing us to join the fight, or just doing some empty tub thumping ?

tub thumping.,,,i havent seen hide nor hare of bumper for about 5 yrs. (that was when we walked out at G********). milky was present at our last big 'get together'