Conference 2018 : Thursday's Daily Round-up

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“Maverick managers” who are “out of step” with the new culture of the Four Pillars & Pay agreement were sharply criticised in a strongly-worded motion adopted by conference this morning.
Members at Bristol Mail Centre are furious at the actions of local management, who stand accused of launching “spurious conduct cases” against CWU reps and activists.
Moving the motion, Rob Wotherspoon set out the issues involved in the instance of a local rep, who has been subject to what are widely thought of as “trumped-up charges.”
Speaker after speaker from many different branches came to the rostrum to support the motion, several of them with similar instances in their own localities.
Responding to the debate, deputy general secretary Terry Pullinger asked delegates to back the motion, saying: “This identifies the problem we’ve had with workplace culture.”
The proposition, which conference formally approved, urges the Postal Executive to meet with the business “urgently” to seek a swift resolution of these issues, with a warning that a failure to resolve this could spark industrial action ballots.
Terry stressed that the union wanted to work positively with the company to tackle this problem, telling conference that the CWU “travels in peace.
“But,” he added: “We carry a big b****** stick.”
On a busy final day, Conference also discussed and debated motions on excess workload procedures, fair workload distribution, grievance procedures, and a range of specific driving duty propositions.