LTB 453/19 - TERMS OF REFERENCE BETWEEN ROYAL MAIL AND THE CWU COVERING THE TRIAL OF FINGER SCANNERS FOR INDOOR TASKS FOR HIGHER VOLUME DELIVERY OFFICES

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LTB 453/19 - TERMS OF REFERENCE BETWEEN ROYAL MAIL AND THE CWU COVERING THE TRIAL OF FINGER SCANNERS FOR INDOOR TASKS FOR HIGHER VOLUME DELIVERY OFFICES

No. 453/2019

Friday 26th July 2019



TERMS OF REFERENCE BETWEEN ROYAL MAIL AND THE CWU COVERING THE TRIAL OF FINGER SCANNERS FOR INDOOR TASKS FOR HIGHER VOLUME DELIVERY OFFICES

Dear Colleagues,

Branches will recall that there was previous trial activity agreed and outlined in LTB 165/18 to undertake trials in 10 Delivery Offices on the use of Finger Scanners.

Overall the scanners were relatively well received by OPGs and managers, with favourable comments about the weight and ease of handling compared to the PDAs. With the conclusion of the study deemed that Finger Scanners accelerated the scanning process for Tracked items in the majority of cases and that further analysis suggested that it benefitted:

 Large Tracked Return Receivers
 Delivery Offices within Plants (where they could dual use the finger scanners already present)
 Smaller offices with large Tracked volumes where a combined Scan and Sort Process could be introduced
As a result of further discussions with the business, we have agreed with Royal Mail to further expand the trial of Finger Scanner accessories (paired to the existing PDAs) in 11 agreed large receiving DOs.

The purpose of the trial extension would be to confirm whether there is a consistent case for their use on a more widespread basis, and to inform when a tipping point might occur in terms of the volume of parcels and to further determine if this is appropriate for all parcel sizes or more specific to particular volumetric formats. The trial extension would aid a decision as to whether and where to deploy these more widely which is agreed would be subject to further National discussions.

As Branches will note from the trial TOR, we believe the document includes all the necessary safeguards and clearly defines that there is full involvement of CWU and staff within the trial, along with the necessary training and support, also along with the appropriate SSOW, etc.

In addition, any operational changes required to facilitate the trial arrangements will be progressed in line with the IR Framework.

Further to this, the trial will be jointly overseen by the National leads and will be formally reviewed by the signatories of this TOR. Local managers and CWU Representatives involved will also have the opportunity to feed into this process.

Any queries to the content of the above please contact the Outdoor Department reference 540, email address: outdoorsecretary@cwu.org.

Yours sincerely,



Mark Baulch

CWU Assistant Secretary

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why are the CWU still agreeing to trials with the company when the company are totally ignoring the 4 pillar agreement , the CWU should tell them to fxxx oxx with an trials until they sort the 4 pillars out ,

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why are the CWU still agreeing to trials with the company when the company are totally ignoring the 4 pillar agreement , the CWU should tell them to fxxx oxx with an trials until they sort the 4 pillars out ,

EXACTLY, WTT, they should be telling them to f..k right off until management get back on point. Like I said in another post, although still one of the strongest unions out there, the CWU is getting weaker and weaker every day. Yes management need to be allowed to manage but these bunch of jokers couldn't run a tupper wear party. There totally incompetent. I've never heard of so many offices in total chaos like there is now and what used to happen was if an office nearby walked then the chances are a chain reaction would start and the other offices in the surrounding postcodes or even MCs would walk out for support. That soon got top management round the table. Now it seems the union have been cowed by management. You's need to get the story of what's really going on inside RM to the public, who know nothing about the bullying and what posties have to put up with just to get the correct wages at the end of the week ect. But yes the union shouldn't be agreeing to the colour of postal vans until management start to respect and implement the agreements that have already be signed as part of moving on in the industrial partnership.