LTB 313/22 - 2022 Dispute Relating to CWU Pay Claim for CWU Represented Grades Employed by Royal Mail Group Consisting of Royal Mail, Parcelforce and Fleet

[POSTMAN]

LTB 313/22 – 2022 Dispute Relating to CWU Pay Claim for CWU Represented Grades Employed by Royal Mail Group Consisting of Royal Mail, Parcelforce and Fleet
No. 313/22

19th July 2022



Dear Colleague,

2022 Dispute Relating to CWU Pay Claim for CWU Represented Grades Employed by Royal Mail Group Consisting of Royal Mail, Parcelforce and Fleet

Please find attached a copy of the declaration of the result for the recent industrial action ballot of the above CWU members employed by Royal Mail Group. https://www.cwu.org/wp-content/uploads/ ... L-MAIL.pdf

The current legislation requires the union to provide all persons entitled to vote in the ballot and the relevant employers “as soon as is reasonably practicable” after holding of the ballot the following information:

The number of individuals who were entitled to vote in the ballot.
The number of votes cast in the ballot.
The number of individuals answering “Yes” to the question, or as the case may be, to each question.
The number of individuals answering “No” to the question, or as the case may be, to each question.
The number of spoiled or otherwise invalid voting papers returned.
Whether or not the number of votes cast in the ballot is at least 50% of the number of individuals who were entitled to vote in the ballot.
Therefore the ballot result meets the required threshold.

Accordingly you must now take immediate steps to publicise the result to all relevant members, however it is essential that any communications regarding the result must as a minimum contain the information as detailed at items a) to f) inclusively above.

Branches are also reminded that only the National Executive Council has the authority to instruct members to take industrial action.

Further information regarding the next steps of the dispute will be circulated by the DGS (Postal) in due course.

Any enquiries regarding this Letter to Branches should be addressed to the Senior Deputy General Secretary’s Department on telephone number 020 8971 7237, or email address sdgs@cwu.org.

Yours sincerely,

Terry Pullinger Tony Kearns Dave Ward
Deputy General Secretary Postal Senior Deputy General Secretary General Secretary

[POSTMAN]

INDUSTRIAL ACTION BALLOT – CWU

TRADE DISPUTE WITH ROYAL MAIL GROUP,
CONSISTING OF ROYAL MAIL, PARCELFORCE AND FLEET

Our independent scrutineers' report, as required in accordance with section 231B of the Trade Union and
Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, for the above ballot which closed at Noon on Tuesday, 19 July
2022, is as follows:-

Number of individuals who were entitled to vote in the ballot 113,330
Number of votes cast in the ballot 87,315

Votes cast in the ballot as a % of individuals who were entitled to vote 77.0%

Question: Are you prepared to take part in strike action?

Number of spoilt or otherwise invalid voting papers returned 44
Result of Voting
Yes 85,184---97.6%
No 2,087---2.4%

We are satisfied:

a) that there are no reasonable grounds for believing that there was any contravention of a requirement
imposed by or under any enactment in relation to the ballot

b) that the arrangements made with respect to the production, storage, distribution, return or other handling
of the voting papers used in the ballot, and the arrangements for the counting of the votes, included all such
security arrangements as were reasonably practicable for the purpose of minimizing the risk that any
unfairness or malpractice might occur,

c) that we have been able to carry out the functions conferred on us under section 226B(1) without any
interference from the trade union or any of its members, officials or employees.

We would draw your attention to subsection 231B (2) which requires that, for a six month period starting from
the date of the ballot, a copy of this report be made available, on request, to any person who was entitled to
vote in the ballot and the employer of any such person. A reasonable fee may be charged for this service.