35 hour Monday to Friday

Post by **stodgy88** » 16 May 2020, 10:23

pretty sure senority dosent let you just pick between fulltime and part time.

Woody Guthrie · Post by **Woody Guthrie** » 16 May 2020, 10:40

stodgy88 wrote:pretty sure senority dosent let you just pick between fulltime and part time.

Nobody is talking about picking between full-time and part-time.
We're talking about voluntary redundancy.
That is offered on a seniority basis.
If you offer VR most if not all of the volunteers would be full-time because they are the most senior.

Post by **stodgy88** » 16 May 2020, 10:46

Fair enough, read the post wrong,i stand corrected.

postmanzach · Post by **postmanzach** » 16 May 2020, 12:39

I think this is a good idea. We need to hurry up and improve the service by offering Sunday delivery or parcels and specials. I shall be surprised if we go back to delivery of letters on Saturdays.

chickenwittle · Post by **chickenwittle** » 17 May 2020, 09:42

Mon to fri is the way forward, skeleton service sat/sun for specials and tracked items.We all know this is the future, the union need to accept it and negotiate the best possible deal for its members .

2yearpostie · Post by **2yearpostie** » 17 May 2020, 11:01

whos offering to work Sat/Sun then? maybe we could even the full time/part time hours out over the week mon -fri and the ft could make there contract length up by work alternative sat/sun?

regalia25 · Post by **regalia25** » 17 May 2020, 11:12

I didn't realise there were so many people in favour of Rico's Monday to Friday plans !
Do you think he would come back if we asked him nicely ?

gb93 · Post by **gb93** » 17 May 2020, 11:39

2yearpostie wrote:whos offering to work Sat/Sun then? maybe we could even the full time/part time hours out over the week mon -fri and the ft could make there contract length up by work alternative sat/sun?

I will offer to work some sats & suns on overtime as sure plenty more would might even have some part timers wanting to even though you think they shouldn't. And depending on what would be delivered them days could have some sat & sun contracts. Quite easy really

2yearpostie · Post by **2yearpostie** » 17 May 2020, 11:43

gb93 wrote:
2yearpostie wrote:whos offering to work Sat/Sun then? maybe we could even the full time/part time hours out over the week mon -fri and the ft could make there contract length up by work alternative sat/sun?
I will offer to work some sats & suns on overtime as sure plenty more would might even have some part timers wanting to even though you think they shouldn't. And depending on what would be delivered them days could have some sat & sun contracts. Quite easy really

What do you do about the small offices where there is no volunteers?

gb93 · Post by **gb93** » 17 May 2020, 12:07

2yearpostie wrote:
gb93 wrote:
2yearpostie wrote:whos offering to work Sat/Sun then? maybe we could even the full time/part time hours out over the week mon -fri and the ft could make there contract length up by work alternative sat/sun?
I will offer to work some sats & suns on overtime as sure plenty more would might even have some part timers wanting to even though you think they shouldn't. And depending on what would be delivered them days could have some sat & sun contracts. Quite easy really
What do you do about the small offices where there is no volunteers?

Top of my head after 30 secs thinking about it.
Take people on sat & sun contracts
Get people from larger offices in to do it

Post by **Nick b** » 17 May 2020, 15:17

35 hour Mon-Fri is the way forward and the CWU definitely needs to negotiate with RM and not keep saying don’t like this or that and also kick its politics into the long grass. However there is an elephant in the room called OFCOM and because they can’t kick all other postal carriers around (foreign owned) they hammer the one they can us, they can say no to five days.
Having been in communication nearly all my career in one form or another OFCOM is one quango I would put in a sack and throw in the river.

2yearpostie · Post by **2yearpostie** » 17 May 2020, 16:33

Nick b wrote:35 hour Mon-Fri is the way forward and the CWU definitely needs to negotiate with RM and not keep saying don’t like this or that and also kick its politics into the long grass. However there is an elephant in the room called OFCOM and because they can’t kick all other postal carriers around (foreign owned) they hammer the one they can us, they can say no to five days.
Having been in communication nearly all my career in one form or another OFCOM is one quango I would put in a sack and throw in the river.

So you want to make 20,000 people like me redundant by getting rid of cover days, thanks

( union if your reading part timers pay over half your subscription think carefully)

mags999 · Post by **mags999** » 17 May 2020, 16:45

sorry mate voluntary only so lm afraid your stuck here

chickenwittle · Post by **chickenwittle** » 17 May 2020, 17:12

2yearpostie wrote:
Nick b wrote:35 hour Mon-Fri is the way forward and the CWU definitely needs to negotiate with RM and not keep saying don’t like this or that and also kick its politics into the long grass. However there is an elephant in the room called OFCOM and because they can’t kick all other postal carriers around (foreign owned) they hammer the one they can us, they can say no to five days.
Having been in communication nearly all my career in one form or another OFCOM is one quango I would put in a sack and throw in the river.
So you want to make 20,000 people like me redundant by getting rid of cover days, thanks ( union if your reading part timers pay over half your subscription think carefully)

We need to start moving away from these accusations every time we talk mon/fri working . The union won’t accept job losses and if it’s phased in most jobs would go from retirement and people leaving the job through their own choice as well as VRs.

Post by **POSTMAN** » 17 May 2020, 17:22

I remember a few years ago on here we were talking about a 7 day service, how times change.