Royal Mail Axes 3500 Jobs

[jacobliam]

We need to put a stop to all these Revisions going through. If these Shares are worth nothing I bet they haven't got the cash to pay for these revisions. Maybe an idea to get rid of these extra vans and keep the bikes. The worse idea ever this revision this union needs the Axe not 3500 of us.

[swoosta]

Had a message off a colleague,who had just seen the news on Sky,he was saying the "share scheme" is worth absolutly nothing all and we probably wont recieve a penny,If so weve been well shafted again,Theyve managed to get us all doing D2D items for virtually nothing,some great union we have eh,the majority of us are in a far worse off situation financially then we were before the strikes.

IMO the CWU need firing,period,a new Union needs to step in,The guys at the top in the CWU are corrupt as hell,werent we all given certifacates that we could cash in after so many years?,Would they be breaking the law in not paying us what they promised?

All you idiots still paying your £4 odd a week to the CWU,how long you gonna carry on lining these mugs pockets?,You may as well flush your money down the toilet.

To be fair the union has always said the shares were a load of rubbish and didn't recognise them.

[George door to dawes]

Midlands mail centre review is due to be completed in less then a month as well so thats more redundancies to come soon

[fishtank]

To be fair the union has always said the shares were a load of rubbish and didn't recognise them.

Right up until the BT2010 agreement where not only did they recognise them,they even negotiated them into the agreement....in the Rewards section.
If they thought they were a load of rubbish they would have left them as they were.

[Eric Cantona]

Good Old Dave Ward said "its unacceptable.



Royal Mail said it expected to see the phased closure of the East London and South London mail centres to start immediately, leaving five centres in the capital.
The Greater London rationalisation programme is expected to achieve annual savings of £30 million, while £32 million will be invested in the Mount Pleasant site near King's Cross.
Speaking on Monday Mark Higson, Royal Mail's managing director of operations and modernisation, said: 'Royal Mail's modernisation programme, which is vital to ensuring a successful future for the letters and parcels business, depends on having the right number of people in our business, as well as deploying the right technology and equipment.
'We are conscious of the impact today's announcement will have on our staff in London.
Wielding the axe: Royal Mail chief Mark Higson said the cuts were essential

'It is hard to reduce job numbers at any time. We are committed to doing everything we can, in line with our agreement with the union, to make these changes on a voluntary basis.

'We will be providing specialist outplacement advice to help our people affected by this announcement to look for new opportunities outside Royal Mail.'
Royal Mail’s south London mail centre in Nine Elms Lane will close in 2012, and the east London mail centre in Bromley-by-Bow will close in 2012.
West End delivery operations, currently based in Rathbone Place, will transfer to Mount Pleasant during 2013.
In London in 2006-07, 831 million items were posted, but by 2013-14, it is forecast the total will fall to 353 million items, said the Royal Mail.
Across the UK, the average number of items of mail posted daily has fallen by 16 million compared with five years ago.
Royal Mail said it believed it would not have to resort to compulsory redundancies to manage the reduction in the number of employees
There was no announcement about a so-called colleagueshare scheme, launched by former chairman Allan Leighton in 2007.
Rumours started last week in several areas of the country that money from the scheme will not be paid out this year because of the state of Royal Mail’s finances.
Postal workers have been waiting for news about the expected payout, with some saying it was worth several hundred pounds.
Dave Ward, deputy general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, said in a letter to members tonight: 'We understand that Royal Mail is in a difficult financial position.

'We know the company faces unprecedented challenges and that only by transforming the business in the right way can we secure the future.

'But half way through the change programme it seems that the company and Government are shifting the goal posts. This is unacceptable.
'The CWU has told the company that they must find a way to honour the previous colleagueshare commitments and maintain the cash benefits due to our members.'

Mr Ward said the union appeared to be at a 'crossroads' with the Royal Mail again and called for a summit meeting with the company and the Government.'
Unite national officer Brian Scott said: 'Royal Mail has failed in every way to achieve its objectives of rewarding individuals in the longer term for the valuable contribution they have made to the improvements and success of the business.
'This situation has been handled very badly by the company and Unite is demanding an urgent meeting.'
The Government has launched controversial plans to privatise Royal Mail, with legislation being considered by the House of Lords.




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