Royal Mail has agreed with the Communication Workers Union an increase in per-unit payments for the delivery of election mail

[postareale]

https://postandparcel.info/117553/news/ ... -with-cwu/

ROYAL MAIL: WE STAND READY TO ENGAGE WITH CWU
Nov 25, 2019

Royal Mail: we stand ready to engage with CWU
Royal Mail has agreed with the Communication Workers Union an increase in per-unit payments for the delivery of election mail (poll cards and candidate mail) during the General Election.

Shane O’Riordain, Royal Mail Managing Director of Regulation and Corporate Affairs said: “We said we would meet CWU to discuss the union’s request for an increase in the dedicated, per-unit payments postmen and postwomen receive for delivering poll cards and individual items of candidate mail during the General Election.

“Royal Mail and CWU have agreed a 5 % increase on average in the per-unit payment of election material delivered in the course of the current General Election. The increase will be paid retrospectively to cover election materials already delivered.

“In agreement with CWU, we will deploy varying per-unit increases. The current national agreement covering the delivery of election material remains in place until we jointly review it in 2020.

“More broadly, we stand ready to engage with CWU. We have written to them offering discussions without preconditions on open issues.”

[Harv12]

so in our office we got told NOT to count them, DOM said he was going to split the office amount over the office as an average, loads not happy, he wasnt accepting any figures from folk that had counted them

[ted_e_bear]

so in our office we got told NOT to count them, DOM said he was going to split the office amount over the office as an average, loads not happy, he wasnt accepting any figures from folk that had counted them

Deffo get your rep onto that it's bollox, so a walk with 800 calls gets the same as a rural with 200, unless your Dom made it fair by getting everyone's leaflets prepped for them, oh thought not !

[Phunter]

so in our office we got told NOT to count them, DOM said he was going to split the office amount over the office as an average, loads not happy, he wasnt accepting any figures from folk that had counted them

Deffo get your rep onto that it's bollox, so a walk with 800 calls gets the same as a rural with 200, unless your Dom made it fair by getting everyone's leaflets prepped for them, oh thought not !

My take on this is that specialist duties like rural drives are perfected by experience. Specialists are the most valuable individuals to preserve the USO to reach to remote places based on local knowledge, a walk with 800 delivery points surely have blocks of flats or terraced houses while a 200 one involve loads of driving and get in and out the van all the time. What it's not fair is that floaters take all the election mail or none of it.

[Celgar]

so in our office we got told NOT to count them, DOM said he was going to split the office amount over the office as an average, loads not happy, he wasnt accepting any figures from folk that had counted them

DOMs were given the exact figures for how many poll cards there would be for each walk. No reason not to pay posties for how many they have prepped & delivered rather than an average figure.