THE INDEPENDENT POSTAL WORKERS WEBSITE

Please be aware that there is a bit of a backlog in the system, we are doing our best to deliver what we can daily but unfortunately in some areas there will be delays, please have some patience as we are doing what we can.  Postal workers of royalmailchat.co.uk
RoyalMailChat is an unofficial website which has no official or unofficial recognition or support from Royal Mail or the CWU. Our aim here is to provide the latest postal news and the best forums for discussion of the day to day dealings within Royal Mail, The CWU, other postal organisations around the world including our competitors, our customers and much more. Read More...

ROYALMAILCHAT :Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est

  CORONAVIRUS DISCUSSION

Employers encouraged to offer tests

Isolating

How many people have received the first dose of the vaccine in your area tool?

School testing

LTB 091/21 - RM/CWU Joint Statement for Additional Volumes Covid-19 Delivery of T24 Test Kits & Sunday Delivery of Parcels

Rapid lateral flow testing for households and bubbles of school pupils and staff

Side effects and sickness from a Coronavirus vaccination : Does the absence get recorded as a Covid absence ( not part of the attendance procedure) or a normal absence that 'could' lead to a warning

LTB 082/2021 - RMG Workforce - NHS Test & Trace App Compliance : Management 'manipulation and malpractice in respect of NHS 'Test and Trace' notifications.........**again**

LTB 081/2021 - Royal Mail Group Offices - Staying Covid-19 Secure & Safe - RMG/CWU/Unite Agreed 'Resetting Covid-19/Coronavirus Control Standards Poster'

Have you had a COVID-19 vaccine shot



  THE DISPUTE : THE PATHWAY TO CHANGE

Pay Rate Guide - CWU Represented ex-Letters Grades in Royal Mail Operations :2021

Parcel size for van duties.

Pay Rates - CWU Represented Grades in Royal Mail Post & Parcels 2019/2020

Sunday Deliveries to commence

Covid hours and WIPH

LTB 075/21 - Key Principles Framework Agreement (Pathway to Change) - Agreement between Royal Mail and the CWU on the guidelines for the implementation of the Shorter Working Week (SWW) for Fleet Admi

Mail centre/apc saturday nightshifts for parcel sorting machines.

How are things likely to change?

My own ex union - The CWU - Backpay

LTB 058/21 - Key Principles Framework Agreement - Agreed National Guidelines for 2021 Realignment Activity to Rebalance the Operation in Processing Units. (Mail Centre, RDC, WBC)



Royal Mail employment policies are ideal for reps and colleagues as a quick guide to our full agreements. (Updated 2019)

Royal Mail have developed summaries on the agreements colleagues most frequently ask about. The at-a-glance summaries give an overview of the key parts of the policies so you can quickly find the information you need.

The policies are available from myroyalmail.com, the intranet and are also in the public domain through search engines, we have published them here for easy access, excuse the cheeky copy/paste, they include...

• Time off: annual holiday

• Time off: other leave

• Sick pay

• Attendance

• Being a parent

• Flexible working

See all the policies Here...

Registered members of the site have access to the full agreements in our downloads forum.



Moving to half sick pay

LTB 090/21 - Royal Mail Survey - Class C and Class C+E Licences

Wilful delay of mail

FORMAL FACT FINDING MEETING

LTB 079/21 - Annex to the Royal Mail & CWU Joint Statement on the National Deployment of the Vehicle Check App made in November 2020

Holiday pay on departure

Occupational health phone call imminent, advice please?

Backpay

Info required on long term sick member

LTB 068/21 - Royal Mail Fleet Maintenance Territorial Representative Vacancy - South West, West Coast & South Wales


LTB 071/21 - Election of Parcelforce Worldwide Regional Chair - 2021
MRM.COM : Parcelforce plans : What does our CWU agreement mean for Parcelforce Worldwide?
LTB 061/21 - Election of: Parcelforce Worldwide Regional Organiser & Parcelforce Worldwide Regional Organiser Substitute - 2021
LTB 062/21 - Election of: Parcelforce Worldwide Area Health & Safety Representative/Substitute Area Health & Safety Representatives - 2021
Pay date/overtime explained ?
Back pay
C&D driver.
Parcelforce working hard to keep delivering after 'dozens of staff' isolating
Night shift work survey
LTB 587/20 - JOINT STATEMENT BETWEEN PARCELFORCE WORLDWIDE AND THE CWU ON THE IMPACT OF BREXIT ON PARCELFORCE INTERNATIO

LTB 077/21 - Joint Statement between Royal Mail Logistics and the CWU on the Deployment of the 2021 PAD Revision Activity and the 2nd Hour Reduction in Working Time for Regional Logistics (Area Distri
TERMS OF REFERENCE BETWEEN ROYAL MAIL (RM) AND THE COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION (CWU) FOR THE RELOCATION OF OPERATIONS FROM THE NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTRE TO THE MIDLANDS AUTOMATED PARCELS HUB
Weekly resourcing meetings should take place in all units in line with the 2018 Resource Realignment agreement and will include the following as standard items during the Covid Period.
Covid Holiday
Overtime rates
Davie Robertson Facebook Session
Christmas Bonus
Trailer trouble
Guarantee delivery
Two days off at Christmas for Asda staff and no claw back
  WE ARE NOT ON FACEBOOK

not on facebook

  CORONAVIRUS NEWS ARTICLES

AN OUTBREAK of Covid-19 at the Basingstoke delivery office has resulted in postal delays across the town this week.

CWU accuses DHL after COVID-19 outbreak at Manchester site

Royal Mail drafted in to help find mystery person with Brazil variant

Delivery delays likely as 50 Kidderminster Royal Mail staff must isolate

Royal Mail responds to news of Covid cases at Nottingham postal delivery site

Royal Mail confirm Harwich services are 'recovering'

Margate Royal Mail delivery office short staffed due to second virus break out

Dalkeith WHSmith and Post Office shuts for deep clean after virus case

Amazon offers up to $80 to front-line employees getting the COVID-19 vaccine

Royal Mail defends King's Lynn sorting office after courier raises covid safety concerns

LATEST NEWS:

Drug detections made on 'almost daily basis' in Orkney

Echo by LloydsPharmacy Royal Mail trial for faster deliveries

Every flat in my block had its postcode changed without notification causing post chaos: What on earth is going on?

Thief hijacks postie's van full of parcels before swiping their car from depo :Edinburgh's Colinton area

Ofcom has today published a decision on regulating a new set of wholesale access services that Royal Mail has launched. : The new 'D+5 Letters access services'

Gourock councillor slams changes to Royal Mail service in the town

Rubber band waste cause for concern

Anglesey postman, who was so popular customers set up a lockdown fundraiser for him, retires

'Very distinctive smelling' package of cannabis found by Royal Mail workers

'End of an era' as Broughton loses postmen after more than 150 happy years

ROYAL MAIL SHARES:

Transferring shares from SIP to RMNSS.

Ftse 100

Royal Mail shares: here's why I've changed my mind

You've got to hand it to Rico

How many shares


COMPETITORS:

DPDgroup announces record year of growth and 5-year strategy

Amazon could be a big winner of Rishi Sunak's investment tax break

Yodel : A neighbour signed for my parcel but left it in the hallway where it was stolen: Why won't the courier or retailer refund me?

HERMES BUYS BOLTON DEPOT

United pays $ 49million for not delivering mail properly

Tories step up pressure to have Moya Greene's interim report released immediately

Yodel cuts emissions by 25% despite record growth

USPS Network 'Severely Disrupted,' Suspends Guarantee

A victory for Uber drivers is potentially a win for all gig economy workers

Customs and MaltaPost struggle with UK mail delays : Brexit and COVID complicate what was once a simple process

AVERAGE PAY WHILE ON ANNUAL LEAVE:

Average holiday pay?

After leaving RM

LTB 474/20 Average Pay on Annual Leave : identifying a number of lead claimants in England and Wales whose cases could then be considered ahead of a case management hearing on 30th September 2020.

LTB 289/20 - Average Pay on Annual Leave : Respective legal parties were involved in dialogue concerning a simplified process for members

LTB 243/20 - Average Pay on Annual Leave (Holiday Pay Claims) Against Royal Mail Group Limited

POST OFFICE® NEWS:

'Selfless' post office team recognised with award on behalf of the Queen

Bishopstoke man arrested after cannabis Post Office parcels

Post Office partners with Amazon in click & collect trial

CWU.ORG : 'Highly recommended' Post Office pay & pension package

Two in five UK small businesses at risk of not successfully fulfilling EU-bound orders, warns Post Office

LINKS


Royal Mail

Royal Mail


parcelforce

Parcelforce


post office

Post Office

myroyalmail

myroyalmail

cwu

CWU


BACK TO THE TOP