Basically it's a crock of shite designed by some knobhead who feels aggrieved because he got kicked off his cushy World Class Crayoning and filling in stupid graphs and now feels it incumbent to make ALL our lives as s**t as possible........hope that helpsPOSTMAN wrote:Can someone dissect this, bit of plain English for us thicko's.
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No SA for at least a decade in my office, why are the CWU trying to stop it disappearing when it already has a long time ago for many? Why not concentrate on things that affect all members instead?dingo wrote:A senior Manager was challenged to go on a walk last year on the Broadwater Farm. This senior manager had been a senior manager on DPD had championed first time delivery and said he FTD could be done anywhere , well this senior manager had a different opinion after he had done the walk. You can google stuff but it means nothing unless you have done the walk or know what the office is like. If you want to do a similar walk on the Broadwater Farm as you believe it is so peaceful now PM and I will arrange.
I have been in the job 31 years and people starting before there time and not having their meal reliefs have been there for all 31 years. Let's be clear the reason why the majority of people start before their time and don't have their full meal relief is because they think they will finish early before their due finishing time. So obtaining the hours they actually is not so easy. However the measurement which Royal Mail want to use is WIPWH which is cash so if they pay someone full time hours than it don't matter what time an individual starts or ends. As the WIPWH measurement is not influenced by this.
Of course I have lost count of the union campaigns in those 31 years to do the job properly and I have lost count of the members meetings I have had at various offices asking people to do the job properly. The reality is that some members believe they work for themselves. The sad thing is they put pressure on reserves who cover their jobs when they are absence and maybe are a reason why there are not more hours in the office.
In terms of people going home early , I don't recal I said I was defending this. However often a OPG is far more productive when he or she thinks they are going to finish early than they are if they are going to work too time. That is the culture of the business.
Royal Mail's mantra of working all paid for hours is a bit of a sham because they don't stop people coming in before their time or having their paid meal relief or even having their full entitlement of annual leave.
Production control is their new idea for real time recording of tasks and individuals but this will also aim to introduce individual performance targets.
Now your last point is the old classic , those who do overtime to survive should sacrifice their need to work extra hours to pay for the cost of living in order to share this to part time contract. In my belief this would simply lead to full time staff retention problems as we saw in the 80, and 90s as without overtime some full timers in the South East of England due to higher rent , housing prices and the higher cost of living cannot afford to live in a flat Royal Mail wage. Part timers should get the opportunity to increase their hours in line with the Agenda for Growth and we have just done a deal in London which will see over 75 part timers getting increases in contracted hours some up to Full time. But the answer is not just stripping SA and overtime off individuals who have performed this overtime for years and have built their lives around it .
So it is easy to have a view from an ivory
So on what basis have these initial lists been formed?...further validate the unit's initial categorisation
Capturing all hours will be paramount for this to work clocking in and out anyone if you go over you get paid if you finish early you can do more work, Why then would anyone come in before their time and why would anyone cut corners that result in accidents sick leave and cost to the business!fishtank wrote:I'm not attacking you dingo, I'm disagreeing with the idea that inefficient, broken offices are something to be proud of when in fact what they do is put all our jobs at risk.
Continuous improvement has been around since before I started and it means as little now as it did then, the only thing that changes is what silly new way royal mail chooses to measure efficiency, this one looks just as complex and pointless as the rest but what can't be denied is that some offices are stuck somewhere around 1975 and this is something we should be looking to address as a trade union.
Perhaps the union should be taking a deeper look at these cat 1 and 2 offices to see if everything really is rosy in the garden. Maybe then we can argue that their measurement system is really flawed rather than concentrate on pleading the case for broken offices to stay broken.