Well I couldn't personally say what the job loss figure would be but considering that there has already been a loss of some 60,000 over a period of time then job losses doesn't appear to be an issue and of course it continues now even without a 5 day delivery. People are under the misapprehension that the job as it is now is immutable and that is a very very dangerous premise. I worked in the ESI for many years and the systems were tinkered with year in year out for no apparent gain............now tell me you think that those industries are run on the same lines now as when they were in government hands. I still speak on occasion to ex colleagues and there isn't the faintest comparison. I can certainly guarantee that once privatised the sole purpose of Royal Mail will be to make money for investors and the employees will be at the bottom of the pile depending who remains as employees - many of the disciplines will be sold off or franchised andthose people will no longer be employees of the parent company. Really that is the reason you need a strong union who does make life difficult for the company and causes problems, unlike the GMB who sold out its members in order to be still sat at the table and I see many similarities in the present climateclashcityrocker wrote:1. You are only approaching the problem from a DO perspective only. Moving to a 1 in 5 scenario would impact on processing and distribution as well. There would be job losses in MCs and professional drivers as well.Judgee wrote:Ok someone please explain to me how going to mon-fri week equates to losing 1 in 6 jobs?
The volume of mail will be the same only spread over 5 days instead of 6. Well I work my hours in full and do 5 days out of 6 a week. If the volume of mail during the week is increased I can do no more. I cut off now so I will just have to cut off more if that ever happened. Therefore the number of rounds would have to increase to compensate for the extra mail every day. Ok so it may not be as many as needed for 6 day delivery but it would increase. The fact remains there is only a certain amount of mail you can deliver in a day. So yes there would be fewer jobs but not 1 in 6 that's pie-in-the-sky figures. The rest of the job losses could easily be dropped through VR so what's the problem?
Going mon-fri would not lead to the mass cull in work force that some people seem to think and for those of us with a life outside RM it would make life a hell of alot better!
The only real drop would be in union fees due to less members and as the CWU do feck all for thier money most of the time so does anyone really give a sheet?
2. How many VRs (at approx £30 000 each) do you think RM will happily give out? Do they throw them around likw confetti in your area.
3. It wouldn't just mean a drop in subs. The loss of so many members would probably mean the end of the CWU as an independant trade union.
4. If 1 in 6 is "pie in the sky figures" - how many job losses are acceptable to you? 1 in 8? 1in 10?
