Different sides

[dvbuk55]

The MCs do seem to be facing CRs as claimed by the Union. But I also think that though they have less members , they do have greater concentrations of them, and they do seem to be getting their message across better than we are in deliveries.

It is because of the concentration that they have more cohesion and a greater sense of union in the wider sense. By its very nature delivering is a by and large solitary occupation. The shift usually starts at the DO and ends on site except where revisions involving DM has taken place. The union tends to be isolated from the delivery office and certainly in my experience the majority of full time release union bods are from mail centres and spend zero time at DOs. When trouble hits a mail centre you have a large number of disgruntled people when it's a DO they are in the tens rather than the hundreds.

[baldrick]

" I never voted for this " they say

Unfortunatly, YOU DID !

Next time READ THE small PRINT

And if its not good enough, have the guts to reject it !

If the CWU had had the last deal rejected, they would have gone back into negotiations again and got a better deal

OK we would have to have stopped on the gate a little longer, but RM would have seen that we were not just going to accept any old crap

Most members didn't get the opportunity to read the proposed agreement. They only got a (favourable) summary from the CWU and RM.
Mind you most would probably not have read the full agreement even if they had been sent a copy - as with the Way Forward.