Postal Workers Win Deal After RM Bows To Strikers' Demands

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Postal Workers Win Deal After Royal Mail Bows To Strikers' Demands

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Royal Mail workers win a landmark deal promising 9 per cent pay rise

Royal Mail workers won a landmark deal yesterday with the privatised company protecting them against a race to the bottom and promising a 9 per cent pay rise over three years.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said it would recommend the agreement - which would avert strikes among 130,000 employees - to its members.
CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward said: "The legal protections for Royal Mail employees come hard on the heels of the privatisation of the company and are unprecedented in delivering the strongest protections for employees."

The deal "breaks new ground" by incorporating legally binding protection with a commitment to improving industrial stability, he said.
Workers will receive a 3 per cent pay rise backdated to April, 3 per cent from next April and 2.8 per cent from April 2015, as well as a £200 lump sum paid before this Christmas.

The legal protections - which will continue until at least their first review in January 2019 - include a Royal Mail pledge not to outsource, sell or transfer any part of the business.

The union also won promises not to make and workers self-employed or introduce a tow-tier workforce by keeping the same conditions for new staff.

The company also pledged to make its "overriding objective" to make all future changes without compulsory redundancies.

Members at the Royal Mail group - which includes Parcelforce - will vote on the deal in early January.

The union also achieved a landmark pensions deal with the company delivering "significant improvements" to the 35,000-strong defined contribution scheme.
Mr Ward said in a letter to members: "What has been achieved will provide you with unprecedented protections within a privatised company and will put you in the strongest possible position to embark on what will be a new era for the UK postal industry."

[nudenut]

Looks like a good deal to me I'm sick to death of people being so negative who in the uk apart from mp's are getting a finer deal!

[pants123]

from what i understand im happy, so i'll accept it..

[redandblue]

Got to go over it with a fine toothed comb.
Saying that, on first veiwing, it looks a good deal

[Patrick301]

yeah good deal
should be accepted by overwhelming majority
only down side is
the strike breakers and potential strike breakers , union and non union members will benefit from this deal too
even tho they would have crossed the picket line and gone into work while we stood out in the rain to protect thier jobs

[TrueBlueTerrier]

yeah good deal
should be accepted by overwhelming majority
only down side is
the strike breakers and potential strike breakers , union and non union members will benefit from this deal too
even tho they would have crossed the picket line and gone into work while we stood out in the rain to protect thier jobs

Thing is if you accept the values of a Union then there is nothing else you can do.

One of the values of the Union is a right to free expression, and that can mean individuals deciding to not be a member of a Union, or even disagreeing with a strike and crossing a picket line. Another value is to promote the rights of workers, therefore, in my opinion, if you accept and sign up to be a member of a Union that holds these values, then we cannot in all conscience refuse to pass on those benefits to other workers just because they have a different opinion to ours.