get this deal to the membership now !!

[DirtyHarry]

getting rid of saturday deliveries would wipe out 1/6 of the delivery workforce ( basically all the subs as they wouldn't be needed to cover the day off)

fine and dandy if you are not one of that 1/6

we need to be protecting as many jobs as we can not handing them cuts like this on a plate

if you don't want to work saturdays get another job - that may sound harsh but you knew saturdays were a working day when you applied for the job - I couldn't swallow sacrificing that many jobs for a lay in on a sat

Oh, wake up and smell the coffee, mate. Over 60,000 postal workers jobs have walked out the Royal Mail door since 2003, both our union and Royal Mail have agreed that there will be even significantly fewer people working for Royal Mail by the time they've finished their latest act of industrial butchery.
We cannot, have never, influenced Royal Mail's plans to run our country's postal service on a shoestring.
How's about starting to fight for some real benefits, for those few of us left taking up the slack? And boy, is there some slack to take up.
I for one, knew Saturdays were early finishes when I started. One of the main reasons I started in this, now shyte job, in the first place.
If executive directors at Royal Mail decide in their infinate stupidity to move the goalposts whenever the fancy takes them, then they will have a fight on their hands.

[collectionsarebest]

sorry harry but have you spoke to alot of your friends and workmates, there is no fight left in alot of them now, i dont know why everyone is thinking this agreement is gonna be any good or even any use. Are doms will have one reading of it, are union reps will have another and it will be us the slaves that will be made to suffer as they spend the next 3 years arguing the colour of a stamp

[postietaz]

pleasw tell me bank holidays ,boxingday and new years day are not also going to be called normal days

[freddie1234]

I think working later on a sat or any day is not the job i took 11 yrs ago i took the job as a postman on the understanding i could finish early enough to pick my kids up from school and even though i worked sat morning it was a easy enough day to get finished and go out and do things with my family on top of that we got paid a sat premium. since then royal mail have totally changed our jobs and we have let them do it i will not be working untill 4 oclock on a sat for no one royal mail and our union are forceing me and many other postmen and women threw the door THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[tojobevred]

I've been a union member in various jobs since I started work in the1960s. Let me tell you, this CWU lot are hopeless. They are so out of touch with the postman on the street believe me. They come up with what is laughingly called an agreement, but its always so wooly and disguised with waffle. We need a National agreement, not local agreements. That way we are all singing from the same hymn sheet. Who remembers the agreement with RM bosses that Saturdays would be held back as an easy day and that all Mailsort could be left for the Monday delivery? Wel I dont know about you, but my in office Saturday is one of the busiest, not least because of the fact that there isnt any mailsort anymore, its all S mail etc, and that all has to be delivered. Also, the CWU agrees with RM that mail levels have declined. This is absolute rubbish. Royal Mail mailsort and Royal Mail letters may have decreased, but every other mail suppliers has vastly increased. This is borne out by the fact that 10 years ago when I started with RM i would deliver 3 or 4 bags on heavy days, now its 7 to 9 bags, and no it isn't all packets. Also what about RM suggesting that we plan our delivery routes to keep out of the burning sun! If we are gonna be starting later what now of their planning routes? I could go on and on, and believe me I will return. Just remember when you vote on this agreement -if we ever get to see it- when we are struggling round on a Saturday at 3 o clock in the afternoon, doing 3 rounds out of a van with a trolley, think of our 2 glorious leaders Billy and Davey boy, feet up watching the footy with Jeff Stelling. I bet they havent been up at 5 oclock or worked on Saturdays since they were Paper boys. Think on, when you vote. Don't be swayed by a measly short term financial carrot PLEASE THINK.

WELL SAID