Amicus force Royal Mail to abandon 'unworkable' proposal

[NEWS]

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(CCNMatthews - April 11, 2007) - Amicus today welcomes the decision by Royal Mail to drop their proposals which would have forced managers to apply for their own jobs.

Amicus (CMA section) has been campaigning against the move for several months. Amicus National Secretary, Paul Reuter, said:

"We understand Royal Mail face many challenges, but their latest proposals were unworkable and we are happy that the organisation has dropped them. Amicus has experience in managing change in organisations that face competition and we would like to work with Royal Mail to secure their long term success."

Brian Scott, Assistant National Secretary, who has responsibility for Royal Mail Letters said:

"Royal Mail has expressed a degree of arrogance over the last few months suggesting that only they know the answers to the problems they face. We have consistently demonstrated a willingness to work with them to ensure that the management in Mail Centres and Delivery Offices is totally effective and that our members are trained, equipped and able to undertake their responsibilities to meet those challenges."

Royal Mail had initially intended to undertake some trials in six sites across the UK where new ways of working would be trialled. These came to nothing. Royal Mail has recently been criticised by the Postcomm, the Regulator, for being unable to reduce it's fixed costs. While Amicus does not necessarily accept this, we believe that this development is another example of Royal Mail's inability to manage change in an effective way.

[POSTMAN]

This has cropped up again,thats another wanking session for the boys

[fedup postie]

Hmmm RM will drop something which managers say is unworkable but when CWU say something is unworkable they take exe action

And they wonder why this company is in the trouble it is!!!

[hels]

your right.l

[Delivery Donkey]

SPOT ON HELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[piranha]

Managers - probably the biggest waste of money in the whole company

[TheEngineer]

in our office which was a trial office, even the shift manager failed his interview, the only guy that did pass was some manager who applied for a post in our office, and in the end he was sent packing after coming down as he was utter useless as well, no man management skills whatsoever. In all honesty i don`t think the business know what they want from managers !

[cruisey]

The truth is, after trials across the country, RM decided to abondon the idea cos none of their managers are up to scratch. It had feck all to do with their sll out union amicus.
WHY didn't they just sack the f***ing lot of them

[IWW Fellow Worker]

The truth is, after trials across the country, RM decided to abondon the idea cos none of their managers are up to scratch. It had feck all to do with their sll out union amicus.
WHY didn't they just shoot the f***ing lot of them

Just altered that slightly for you son!

[mdtomuk]

WELL CORRECTED I.W.W. - THE ONLY TYPE OF MANAGER LIEGHTON WANTS ARE SUB-SERVILE LACKEYS WHO WILL SAY 'YES SIR, THANK YOU SIR' TO ANY HAIR-BRAINED MISSIVE HE DICTATES.

AND IT SEEMS HE'S GETTING 'EM!!

[norbet colon]

Hmmm RM will drop something which managers say is unworkable but when CWU say something is unworkable they take exe action

And they wonder why this company is in the trouble it is!!!

Leighton had to keep them onside for the future strikes that Crozier had plotted in January & April . There's the little bit about Crozier saying 2-3 of his managers were average /below average which would have meant a lot of failed reapplications .The laughable irony that Joe Public doesn't understand is that RM's culture hasn't really ever been about Service or the red clawed business profit model but a culture for the benefit of it's managers. 15? layers that is more top heavy than Jordon and unheard of in the corporate world .