Job cuts hit Royal Mail deliveries, says Unite

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Unnecessary job cuts at the Royal Mail have contributed to it missing its delivery targets, Unite, the largest union in the country, said today (Friday, 22 November)
The regulator Ofcom has told Royal Mail it must improve ‘important aspects’ of the service it provides to postal users after failing to deliver 93 per cent of all first class letters the day after they were posted, only achieving 91.7 per cent.
Brian Scott, the Unite officer representing 7,000 Royal Mail managers, said: “These results are disappointing, but not a real surprise given the way Royal Mail has been setting itself up for privatisation in the last year.

“Royal Mail has been making unnecessary job reductions and cutting corners to make it a more viable sell off. Even then, the 60 per cent stake was sold off far too cheaply; putting political dogma ahead of good business sense.

“Unite has been working with Royal Mail to examine the situation in delivery offices and we are increasingly concerned that they are about to implode.

“Unite members working in delivery offices are under a huge amount of pressure and this continues with no obvious solution.

“We are calling upon Royal Mail to undertake a full review of the situation and to address the problems of excess workloads, duplication in reporting systems, lack of support and excessive reduction in delivery staff that have been identified.

“These points need to be resolved before the performance will improve.”

Last month, Royal Mail floated a 60 per cent stake in the company on the stock market.
ENDS

For further information please contact Unite senior communications officer Shaun Noble on 07768 693940

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Unite is Britain and Ireland’s largest trade union with 1.4 million members working across all sectors of the economy. The general secretary is Len McCluskey.

[toonslayer7]

Tell us something we don't already know for crying out loud! Doubt any managers would ever come out and publicly agree with this mind .....

[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

In other news, today is Friday.

[fishtank]

Unite members working in delivery offices are under a huge amount of pressure and this continues with no obvious solution.

Well you could tell your members to start sticking up for their offices and staff rather than taking the easy way out and passing the s**t downwards...
No?
Didn't think so.

Bunch of wannabe union primark-shirted coffee-stained cowards.
I'm sure RM senior managers are quaking in their boots at this latest mauling by the paper tiger.

Unite picket line.

[Cut Off King]

Unite picket line.

CWU picket line

Can't see it ? Neither can RM

[Pinky 1]

Unite members working in delivery offices

Oh please, don't make me feckin' laugh

[PostieSP1]

Oh those poor managers put under pressure to get their Bonuses,wellcome to the S##tpile like their workforce

[heapsy]

When I asked my DOM recently about the dispute and why the managers don't just say "no" when asked to cut hours etc, he replied "your career is over if you say no". Which just proves that the managers son't give a toss. Why their union is banging on about this when their own members wont take action is beyond me. Then again... this reminds me of people in our union who are exactly the same.

[demon]

all excess managers back as posties and down in pay will sort this out

[martin the green]

their job will not change just save royal mail paying mangers wages

[glenfiddich]

all of em in our office out on deliveries or working in callers office then expecting us to lapse more only for us to cut off more so they go out with more loops etc etc you get the picture

[music4essex]

yes our office is like that walks so overloaded one had 24 bags on P&L and manager could not work out why they could not complete,

Callers office is now unworkable as they cut a duty out ,

we refused the xmas hours told them to come back with more

Duties unfair in workload been banging on about this since implementation in March,

Our Office is fragmented,

Glad I have next week off

Essex mum