LTB 702/18 Royal Mail Group Managerial Structure

[TrueBlueTerrier]

LTB 702/18 Royal Mail Group Managerial Structure

No. 702/18

14th December 2018



Dear Colleague,

Royal Mail Group Managerial Structure

I understand that Royal Mail Group will be making an announcement today about their new operational structure. Whilst I say new, it will very much reflect the old structure with the same familiar faces.

This will be hugely disappointing news to all CWU activists and members who have unfortunately witnessed and experienced the significant damage to industrial and employee relations, resourcing and bullying culture this previous structure drove in Royal Mail. The announcement also carries a commitment to reintroduce a managerial area structure.

The business has stressed that they are fully committed to the ‘Four Pillars Agreement’ and all aspects of it, similarly they have stressed that the reintroduction of this old structure will address the accountability issue which was so evidently lacking in the past.

I believe the appointment of this managerial structure is a backward step by Royal Mail Group and completely the wrong decision which has clearly not been determined in the spirit of mutual interest – with my counsel on any new structure clearly ignored. Of course we would not accept management dictating our structure and clearly we cannot dictate theirs, but I fully appreciate the negativity this announcement will drive.

The CWU Officers will now test how the accountability of managers (an issue that was at the core of the relationship and deployment structures of the Four Pillars Agreement) will be maintained and operate in this new structure.

In closing, my message is clear. The Four Pillars Agreement reached genuinely positioned us for the future and the positive mutual interest evolution of Royal Mail Group, whilst affording our members employment and standard of living security. We are fully committed to that Agreement and will fight to protect it with the same determination it was achieved with. We simply will not accept walking backwards into the future.

In the meantime we must continue to ensure at all levels of this Union and especially at local level, that we are the most relevant and strongest workplace Trade Union in the country.

Further updates will be provided as more details emerge. Any enquiries in relation to the content of this LTB should be addressed to the DGS(P) Department.

Yours sincerely,



Terry Pullinger

Deputy General Secretary (Postal)

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[worktotime]

there taking the piss out of the cwu and its members ,, the culture will never change and just get worse , then what do we do ?

[Navalron]

Protecting members levels of income.....hahahahaha. Have they seen the jobs that RM are advertising. 2 DOs this week were looking for postmen/women from 08:30 to 14:30 basically 30 the over five days but we're offering contracts of FIVE hours per week. WTF. It has went like this on the official RM jobs website since the your off the working week. Since then the contracted hours have went down and down. Also look how many offices don't even have any reps and also new starts not even being approached by their office rep and coming on to this website to learn how to do the job and what their entitled to. IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH. RM are walking ALL OVER the union, more now than ever because they know the union has lost their bottle. NOBODY wants to lose wages by striking but sometimes drastic situations need a very rapid and resounding, get it up yous, response.