1 in 4 saturdays off still in force.

Supersonicvandriver · Post by **Supersonicvandriver** » 04 Feb 2017, 20:39

The manager at our DO is doing changes and they are talking about going back to 1 in 6 Saturdays off. We all get 1 in 4 Saturdays off now. and I wanted to know if this union agreement is still in force to this day even tho its a 2010 agreement. no one wants to go back to one in 6. I hope they just cannot give us 4 weeks notice and say now your all on 1 in 6 off.

GT85 · Post by **GT85** » 04 Feb 2017, 22:54

Don't know the answer, but put up a fight, I dream of 1 in 4 Saturdays off, our office is 1 in 6 and as a reserve I get one in a blue moon

Post by **POSTMAN** » 04 Feb 2017, 23:11

The agreement is still in force yes for 1 in 4 but Royal Mail will do their best to get rid of them.
Rep/area rep need to be involved.

hellpop · Post by **hellpop** » 05 Feb 2017, 10:26

Our office is also one in six and the reserves hardly ever get a Saturday off ,

comeracing · Post by **comeracing** » 05 Feb 2017, 12:34

don't worry we will be having every Saturday off soon, as mon-fri will be in force yipeeeeeeeeeeee 2 days off together = normal life.

feduppostie · Post by **feduppostie** » 05 Feb 2017, 13:53

comeracing wrote:don't worry we will be having every Saturday off soon, as mon-fri will be in force yipeeeeeeeeeeee 2 days off together = normal life.

Hate to tell you this but if they dropped a day it would not be Saturday - more likely Tuesday

datasaint · Post by **datasaint** » 05 Feb 2017, 15:34

feduppostie wrote:
comeracing wrote:don't worry we will be having every Saturday off soon, as mon-fri will be in force yipeeeeeeeeeeee 2 days off together = normal life.

Hate to tell you this but if they dropped a day it would not be Saturday - more likely Tuesday

No it'll be Monday. Therefore Tuesday becomes like a heavy Monday in terms of mail volume.

You'll have a bare minimum of staff in on Monday to run SD's and tracked items and collections. Even losing one day from the USO would net phenomenal savings for the company, you're talking 1/6th of frontline delivery staff not needed.

arnold cheshire · Post by **arnold cheshire** » 05 Feb 2017, 16:54

If you go back to one in six Saturdays you should have shorter days

hans solo · Post by **hans solo** » 05 Feb 2017, 20:43

correct they would have to reduce delivery spans back to 3hrs 30 min
and have shorter tues and sat again
do NOT give up your 1 in 4

Rumple · Post by **Rumple** » 06 Feb 2017, 15:12

hans solo wrote:correct they would have to reduce delivery spans back to 3hrs 30 min
and have shorter tues and sat again
do NOT give up your 1 in 4

Can you elaborate? Our office is trying to be pushed back into 1 in 6 Saturday's. Why would the delivery spans have to be reduced, (could use any info to put a spanner in the DOMs works).

Zicomurphy · Post by **Zicomurphy** » 06 Feb 2017, 15:57

We have 1 in 6 Saturday's off and our deliveries are pretty much all 4 hours 15 minutes and longer (according to the computer, obviously in reality they often take longer). Don't understand why 1 in 6 would mean 3hr 30mins delivery.

A2B · Post by **A2B** » 06 Feb 2017, 18:12

Rumple wrote:
hans solo wrote:correct they would have to reduce delivery spans back to 3hrs 30 min
and have shorter tues and sat again
do NOT give up your 1 in 4
Can you elaborate? Our office is trying to be pushed back into 1 in 6 Saturday's. Why would the delivery spans have to be reduced, (could use any info to put a spanner in the DOMs works).

You work longer hours to enable you to have the Saturday off, if they take the Saturday away your hours would be reduced but you can guarantee Monday & Tuesday would be the shorter days

comeracing · Post by **comeracing** » 06 Feb 2017, 20:56

feduppostie wrote:
comeracing wrote:don't worry we will be having every Saturday off soon, as mon-fri will be in force yipeeeeeeeeeeee 2 days off together = normal life.

Hate to tell you this but if they dropped a day it would not be Saturday - more likely Tuesday

we shall see fiver says Saturday by 2037

Post by **Lounge Lizard** » 07 Feb 2017, 06:28

Still one in six Saturdays off for me.

Never had one in four.

UnhappyGremlin · Post by **UnhappyGremlin** » 07 Feb 2017, 23:10

comeracing wrote:
feduppostie wrote:
comeracing wrote:don't worry we will be having every Saturday off soon, as mon-fri will be in force yipeeeeeeeeeeee 2 days off together = normal life.

Hate to tell you this but if they dropped a day it would not be Saturday - more likely Tuesday
we shall see fiver says Saturday by 2037

Up to 20 years is hardly soon.

And I believe Moya Greene has herself stated that if she can get an agreement to cut a day she wants Monday or Tuesday.
She would only need a skeleton crew to do collections and specials/tracked 24's on the day she cuts.