RMCtv : Simon Thompson : The changes we need

[Acca Dacca]

If he thought we should be delivering in the dark should the subtitles not read 'its not so extreme to say you CAN deliver in the dark'?

or 'its too extreme to say you cant deliver in the dark'

[k979aaa]

My gut feeling is that the later starts will happen anyway due to the savings RM would make with shift allowances

You do realise that the mail centre shifts will move back as well as you wont have anything to process...

EVERYONES shifts would move back in RDCs, MCs and DOs

Then why are you cheerleading for it and willing it to happen?

I'm just being realistic about it. It's going to happen at some point and there's nothing that any of us will be able to do about it

Some people are defeated just because they have no energy for the fight wonder if your relatives thought that way in 1940 would we converse in german now just because you have given hope the vast majority have not!

[postslippete]

Thinking about it this will surely one of the changes conceded by RM, as working in the dark from a safety angle seems unworkable, physical attacks, slipping on ice, dog attacks etc, apart from delivering parcels in a van. I can't think of one job apart from the police who walk the streets, & lanes, at night.

True. But you don't usually see one copper wandering around the streets at night. They always walk round in pairs and have plenty of backup should they require it.

[kazardaimenu]

This was the most egregious letter I've had through my door since TV licencing. If someone orders something online they don't need me to be working til 6pm the next day to deliver it. Zero summer lapsing but more apparently more annual leave during that period, working 10-6 in the winter... Thompson does not live in the real world.

[TopperGas]

This was the most egregious letter I've had through my door since TV licencing. If someone orders something online they don't need me to be working til 6pm the next day to deliver it. Zero summer lapsing but more apparently more annual leave during that period, working 10-6 in the winter... Thompson does not live in the real world.

But if we don't work those hours we'll become the next Woolies/Kodak, although I'm sure neither co. failed due to staffing issues!!

[2yearpostie]

I dont get the working between 32-44 hours bit. Most of the staff are 25 hours now so will they have to work longer summer and winter through increased contracts?

[BenacreNick]

What are the 32 allowances, referred to in the yellow letter please ?

And why do half the team get them and half the team do not ?

I have 6x SA's early in the morning, is this included ?

Thanks for your help.

[BenacreNick]

Also, it seems to me to be quite a giant leap to go from working 1 in 40 Sunday's now, to working 1 in 4 Sunday's in the future ?

Or is it just me ?

[2yearpostie]

What are the 32 allowances, referred to in the yellow letter please ?

And why do half the team get them and half the team do not ?

I have 6x SA's early in the morning, is this included ?

Thanks for your help.

Grandad rights, the allowances that exsisted pre 2014 did not apply to starters after that date.

[BenacreNick]

Thanks 2yrpostie, but I still don't really know what they are ?

I started in 2005.

[TopperGas]

What are the 32 allowances, referred to in the yellow letter please ?

And why do half the team get them and half the team do not ?

I have 6x SA's early in the morning, is this included ?

Thanks for your help.

Grandad rights, the allowances that exsisted pre 2014 did not apply to starters after that date.

I assume every OPG gets the Delivery Allowance, If that''s the case, given surely we're the bulk of RM employees then it does make you wonder if only 45% of the team get paid allowances?

[SpacePhoenix]

What are the 32 allowances, referred to in the yellow letter please ?

And why do half the team get them and half the team do not ?

I have 6x SA's early in the morning, is this included ?

Thanks for your help.

Grandad rights, the allowances that exsisted pre 2014 did not apply to starters after that date.

I assume every OPG gets the Delivery Allowance, If that''s the case, given surely we're the bulk of RM employees then it does make you wonder if only 45% of the team get paid allowances?

DO staff get a Delivery Supplement, MC staff (Processing) get a Processing Supplement, I'd assume that Distribution staff get their own equivalent
supplement

[Acca Dacca]

The delivery supplement is NOT part of any group of allowances they want to get rid of

[wowiezowie]

I work in a mail centre and we've been informed that they're trying to take away our shift allowance for working lates/nights/weekends. This would make a big difference to our wage packets.

[SpacePhoenix]

I work in a mail centre and we've been informed that they're trying to take away our shift allowance for working lates/nights/weekends. This would make a big difference to our wage packets.

if that were to happen I wonder how many staff on night shifts will look to move to early and late shifts