thebiggestman wrote:It was the union that shut East London as they did Oxford and Liverpool etc this is because the last time the union needed help to save it's very existence these places pulled out all the stops and went on strike above and beyond and how were they repaid with an agreement with Mail Centre closure at it's core. And the promises of the hierarchy were not forthcoming and without a whimper they were allowed to shut. Its alright sprouting job numbers and duties to go to but it's the job security and the stronghold of a good place of to work you have allowed to be destroyed and now they've finished off the Mail Centres they're coming back for deliveries and you can't see the wood for your own kudos so when you've finished patting yourself on the back there's a job to be done or shall all the delivery members that supported this union wholeheartedly suffer the same fate?
That's simpy not true , mail centres were closing before their was an agreement on Business Transformation , ie Liverpool , Oxford , Reading , Crewe , Stockport , Covertry , Northampton , Milton Keynes , Paddington , North London , South East London , West Central , West 1 , North West London , KEB , Oldham . All these mail centres closed before their was a national agreement on building transformation.
East Londom is closing not because you supported the national union , South London and the Mount done the same amount of strikes as East London , it closed because since the move from Whitecahpel is that Royal Mail believe they could not make productivity improvements in the same way they made them elsewhere. Back in 2008 well before the strike and well before the business transformation agreement Royal Mail appointed a project team to close two London mail centres after East London rejected another revison this was the second after the stansted talks with the Branch. East London had everything going for it , the growth the Thames corridor and the Olympic regelation. The union produced an independent report which supported East London closing but no one in Royal Mail was willing to change their proposal to close East and South London.
The ballot we had and the support we had right across the country was for no complusory redundancies it was not to protect bricks and mortar. The joint statement was endorsed by your Branch which said East London would close providing that all the people were resolved and that quality would be protected. There is a people's resolution for all with many going to the Mount which was not originally available.
it is a sad time because we believe East London should remain open but the employer who pays the wages have said it is ceasing production , we might all not like that but to blame the union is simply wrong and not factually correct. At no time since the joint statement last June has anyone in Royal Mail or in the CWU at Divisonal or national level said East London was staying open. Our aim has been to deal with the people in the right way and during this process we have managed to delay the closing of East London by 9 months it was due to close in January 2012 and that was delayed by 6 months by the Hibbert report.
So the business transformation agreement did not close East London , it would have closed with or without the agreement as both Liverpool and Oxford two which you mention closed when we did not have a business Transformtion agreement.
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