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Mynamesnotpat
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Post by Mynamesnotpat »

As per title, there are a lot of vacant rounds in our office (at least 20) we had an office revision/re-pick approx 3 years ago there have been no jobs advertised since then despite numerous people leaving. I've spoken to the DOM, he has no intention of advertising jobs (surprise surprise) spoken to union rep was told "that won't change" spoke to the area Rep and was told the same thing.

Am I right in thinking there is a national agreement in place regarding this?
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Post by worktotime »

its the same all over they are not replacing the leavers but I don't think its a cwu agreement , they just running offices on overtime now, ie people working days off and mopping up spares dutys and just expect everybody else to mop the indoor work up , so all the time people are doing this it wont change .
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Post by shepherdess »

I'm sure there is an agreement that says that a duty must be advertised after 6 months .
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Post by POSTMAN »

There is an agreement in the way forward( http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communit ... 36&t=11941" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) looks like your reps have given up...w*****s.
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Post by bigal383 »

Same in our office with a so called strong union 6 full timers have left in the last year no2 to br made up and told they want another 120 hours out union where are u
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Post by tone123 »

I'm only very new with RM but I've seen this kind of thing elsewhere.
The only real solution is for the remaining staff to say no to overtime. If you don't do it then they'll very quickly get someone in to fill the post.
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Post by gb93 »

tone123 wrote:I'm only very new with RM but I've seen this kind of thing elsewhere.
The only real solution is for the remaining staff to say no to overtime. If you don't do it then they'll very quickly get someone in to fill the post.
Good luck with that. I would suggest not coming in early & working for nothing for a start.
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Post by Mynamesnotpat »

Thanks for your replies, I've saved a copy of the national agreement I'll see if I can do anything with that