Royal Mail workers to strike - ROMEC

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Workers who maintain Royal Mail offices are to take industrial action, including a half-day strike, in a row over the use of tracking devices in their vans.


More than 500 members of the Communication Workers Union employed by Romec will ban overtime and call-outs over the bank holiday weekend and will walk out next Tuesday afternoon.

The union claimed that information from the tracking devices, including clocking-on and off times and travel details, were being used in disciplinary cases, against an agreement reached two years ago with the company, which is jointly owned by Royal Mail Group and Balfour Beatty.

One employee has been sacked and a number of disciplinary cases have been taken, with information from the devices being used as evidence, said the union.

CWU official Ray Ellis said: "Work will pile up because of the overtime ban, while emergency callouts will not be made over the weekend to deal with any problems with fire and burglar alarms or power failures.

"We are asking Romec to abide by the agreement they made with us two years ago."

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "No employees of Royal Mail Group are involved in this action. We are very confident that the robust contingency plans we have in place will ensure there will be no impact on our customers from the planned industrial action."

[dvbuk55]

Just as a matter of interest, what did they think was going to happen in the long run when telemetry was fitted to vehicles?

If they have been in situ for two years people would begin to forget that they were there and what they were capable of and if you aren't doing anything wrong, what's the problem?

[maisymoo04]

hahaha i go the tesco in mine and 5 aside

[andy2007]

Be careful, that's probably the sort of thing they'll start on next.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Just as a matter of interest, what did they think was going to happen in the long run when telemetry was fitted to vehicles?

If they have been in situ for two years people would begin to forget that they were there and what they were capable of and if you aren't doing anything wrong, what's the problem?

The problem is that the agreement, which is similar to the one that the CWU have with Letters, specifically states that the product of telemetry will NOT be used in disciplinary cases, only to educate. Also I think they knew it was going to happen thats why they had it specifically addressed in both the Romec and letters agreements.

[dvbuk55]

Just as a matter of interest, what did they think was going to happen in the long run when telemetry was fitted to vehicles?

If they have been in situ for two years people would begin to forget that they were there and what they were capable of and if you aren't doing anything wrong, what's the problem?

The problem is that the agreement, which is similar to the one that the CWU have with Letters, specifically states that the product of telemetry will NOT be used in disciplinary cases, only to educate. Also I think they knew it was going to happen thats why they had it specifically addressed in both the Romec and letters agreements.

I know what the agreement says TBT, but like all agreements of late they count for naff all. The sensible thing would have been to say NO to telemetry if there was any doubt about the eventual use of it.

I mean lets face it, it's like saying to children - there are sweeties in that drawer but you're not allowed to eat them...............even on a biblical note if Eve had left that apple alone we men would still be living in the garden of eden.

My point really was if you know it's there then don't do anything wrong. I'd be interested to see the cases in which the telemetry evidence was used really.