Our office originally voted for the 9 day fortnight but after a bit of arm bending by the managers and three ballotts later they finally got the vote they wanted. STAY AS YOU ARE. you wouldnt believe it!! A small number of us kicked up a bit of a stink and said we wanted the 9 day fortnight we felt entitled to. The area rep said he would take it up and put in a disagreement. Royal Mail said they could not split office so tuff we had to stay as we are. Heard today that kidderminster DO had a similar disagreement and Royal Mail had backed down and give those that wanted it more saturdays. Are there any kiddie posties out there who can confirm this ?
There is no reason you can't have different sections on different attendance patterns. The only reason is that it is a bit more effort for the managers to cover the duties hence why they are trying to get you to keep you current attendance pattern, no extra work for them.
dubz wrote:DIM and area manager state everyone HAS to have same working pattern so its tuff s**t. Thats why area rep has had to step in with disagreement.
how many staff do you have in your do as that may affect it, say your office only had 10 staff then bit hard to justify 4 different attendance patterns for example
dubz wrote:Our office originally voted for the 9 day fortnight but after a bit of arm bending by the managers and three ballotts later they finally got the vote they wanted. STAY AS YOU ARE. you wouldnt believe it!! A small number of us kicked up a bit of a stink and said we wanted the 9 day fortnight we felt entitled to. The area rep said he would take it up and put in a disagreement. Royal Mail said they could not split office so tuff we had to stay as we are. Heard today that kidderminster DO had a similar disagreement and Royal Mail had backed down and give those that wanted it more saturdays. Are there any kiddie posties out there who can confirm this ?
Not surprised. This has happened so many times in our office----ballot and reballot until the Managers get what they want!
dubz wrote:Our office originally voted for the 9 day fortnight but after a bit of arm bending by the managers and three ballotts later they finally got the vote they wanted. STAY AS YOU ARE. you wouldnt believe it!! A small number of us kicked up a bit of a stink and said we wanted the 9 day fortnight we felt entitled to. The area rep said he would take it up and put in a disagreement. Royal Mail said they could not split office so tuff we had to stay as we are. Heard today that kidderminster DO had a similar disagreement and Royal Mail had backed down and give those that wanted it more saturdays. Are there any kiddie posties out there who can confirm this ?
each office area is different anyway local agreements
dubz wrote:Our office originally voted for the 9 day fortnight but after a bit of arm bending by the managers and three ballotts later they finally got the vote they wanted. STAY AS YOU ARE. you wouldnt believe it!! A small number of us kicked up a bit of a stink and said we wanted the 9 day fortnight we felt entitled to. The area rep said he would take it up and put in a disagreement. Royal Mail said they could not split office so tuff we had to stay as we are. Heard today that kidderminster DO had a similar disagreement and Royal Mail had backed down and give those that wanted it more saturdays. Are there any kiddie posties out there who can confirm this ?
But Kidderminster is no doubt a special case being as it is the birthplace of Rowland Hill without whom we wouldn't all have these jobs.
we have 4 day weeks 9 day fortnights and 5day weeks all in one office our next revision starts soon to try and get the 1in 4 saturdays and no doubt more collapsing and cuts to indoor hours
Been told we all have to be on same attendance pattern in our (large) office.. And even then they aren't guaranteeing 1in4 Saturdays off - I expect to stay the same, I wouldn't expect anything less from this bullshitting company.
slave wrote:Been told we all have to be on same attendance pattern in our (large) office.. And even then they aren't guaranteeing 1in4 Saturdays off - I expect to stay the same, I wouldn't expect anything less from this bullshitting company.
Can confirm that Kiddy office are to have different work patterns, after area rep and staff held firm, even though pressure from the top royal mail bods was considerable
quick update managers have backed down and said we can now have 9 day fortnight. think there are just over 20 of us out of an office of over 100. 1 in 4 saturdays off yipee!!!!
slave wrote:Been told we all have to be on same attendance pattern in our (large) office.. And even then they aren't guaranteeing 1in4 Saturdays off - I expect to stay the same, I wouldn't expect anything less from this bullshitting company.
A small number of us kicked up a bit of a stink and said we wanted the 9 day fortnight we felt entitled to. The area rep said he would take it up and put in a disagreement. 
Royal Mail said they could not split office so tuff we had to stay as we are. Heard today that kidderminster DO had a similar disagreement and Royal Mail had backed down and give those that wanted it more saturdays. Are there any kiddie posties out there who can confirm this ? 
Thats why area rep has had to step in with disagreement.
Not surprised. This has happened so many times in our office----ballot and reballot until the Managers get what they want!
