LTB 141/21 - Royal Mail: Pathway to Change Agreement: Delivering the Shorter Working Week in MDEC

[POSTMAN]

https://www.cwu.org/ltb/ltb-141-21-roya ... k-in-mdec/

LTB 141/21 – Royal Mail: Pathway to Change Agreement: Delivering the Shorter Working Week in MDEC
No. 141/2021

31st March 2021

Dear Colleagues

ROYAL MAIL: PATHWAY TO CHANGE AGREEMENT: DELIVERING THE SHORTER WORKING WEEK IN MDEC

The backdrop to the Pathway to Change negotiations for MDEC has been difficult due to further declines in volumes, coupled with automation improvements, which has effectively left the three MDEC units over-resourced overall. MDEC’s workload has dropped to 5m tasks per week and as a result of enhancements to the current parcel/letter sorting technology and increased customer barcoding is expected to fall by a further 40% over the next 3 months to around 3m tasks per week.

Negotiations started in January with MDEC management with regards to delivering the Shorter Working Week. An agreement has now been reached and was endorsed by the Postal Executive at a meeting on Tuesday 30th March. An agreed Joint Statement and Joint Briefing note (attached) have been published today and our MDEC Representatives were updated via a meeting this morning. We also provided an embargoed copy of the Joint Statement and briefing note to our Reps earlier today.

Read more at the link above.

[SpacePhoenix]

I would have thought that their workload would start going up as the parcel hubs come online, there's also more PSMs being installed. Not sure if the plan is for smaller MCs to have a smaller version of the big PSMs

[Woody Guthrie]

The Parcel Hubs deal with barcoded parcels.
Why would that generate work for MDEC?

[SpacePhoenix]

The Parcel Hubs deal with barcoded parcels.
Why would that generate work for MDEC?

We're a long way yet from all parcels having 2D barcodes. Still a good few Tracked only have a 1D barcode