All Delivery Representatives/Subs
Below are the dates for our scheduled meetings:
Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Tuesday 4th May 2010
Tuesday 6th July 2010
Tuesday 14th September 2010
Tuesday 16th November 2010
you will be notified of the venue & time of meeting by letter
Delivery Section Annual Report 2009
This year as predicted has been a one for the record with privatisation being delayed and changes that we have never seen before, with you in the background trudging away with little if none praise or reward for your commitment to keep this company going from strength to strength. in 2006 Royal Mail stated they were losing in the region of £1,000,000 a day, yet with changes and hard work you have brought about change within Royal Mail and reverted their losses into £321,000,000 per year (£900,000 per day) clear profit, this all being done while there was a recession and how do you get rewarded for this? A PAY FREEZE!
We then took the action to ballot you and we had a 76% yes vote, which in a time when we where all struggling financially had had enough of these didactic approaches from Royal Mail and we clearly stated enough was enough.
This act in it self has brought Royal mail back to the table and in the New Year we should have agreements in place that should reward you for exuberant efforts, watch this space!
BUT…….. Wait for it!!!! Yes more is on its way.
The future of Royal Mail will be totally different to the way you receive and deliver your mail today; we, now have 4 walk sequencing machines in the New Liverpool North MPU (mail processing unit) which will be tested over the Christmas period and some North offices will receive Mail from Christmas onwards with the South MPU being commissioned February/March 2010, with this we have on the horizon CDV’s (car derived van’s) which will see most post person’s delivering their mail from a van or high capacity trolley, these delivery methods are coming (it is now fact no fiction) so we have to be in a position to make sure that we aligned our work to help maintained full time jobs within the Merseyside Branch.
The agreements on these methods should be with us by the New Year and will form part of the negotiation for this area.
We have had a lot of complaints about the contact strategy when our members are off sick, this strategy is not agreed between the CWU and Royal Mail, this has been highlighted and sent to Headquarters and they are currently in talks about the attendance procedure, may I bring to your attention at this point, when you are invited to an interview for sick or for that matter ANY issue at all you are not obliged to attend without representation and you must have been given a full 48 hours notice for attendance, the contrary to this is if you are called to a fact finding interview for conduct (such as wilful delay or stealing ect) where you are still entitled to have representation if you wish.
Christmas arrangements this year are the same as last year NONE!! Where in the past we have had hours up front, Royal mail and now National agreements (pay and modernisation 2007) state “all hours paid have to be worked” so Royal Mail where not prepared to put hours up front, sorry yes they were Royal Mail are prepared to put hours up front on the Saturdays only so basically they wanted their cake and eat it, so in Merseyside I placed us in the position that if Royal Mail offered overtime on any given day then it was up to the individual whether they performed overtime or not.
May I take this opportunity to bring to all members that your unit rep is your first port of call if you have any issues, however I would like you all to know our unit reps have the hardest job of all as they do not get paid for the extra mile that they go they in some cases they don’t even get released from their normal duty to go that extra mile, so please respect your rep and don’t shoot the messenger, I would also like to thank at this point on your behalf all the reps within the Merseyside Amal for a sterling job in these times of struggle and it would go amiss of me if I did not mention Wallasey Delivery office, although I can not condone unofficial industrial action, our members in that office have kept the argument professional and returned to work and worked even harder to restore the Delivery function at Wallasey D.O. and as I write this report, the professionalism still goes on and I personally thank you all for that, keep it up.
On a personal point I would like to thank all reps and your sub Area rep and Delivery section chair D.Savage and I.Corrin respectively for overwhelming support over the past year and long may it continue.
My final word to everyone after conquering a recession and surviving closure as a UNION we stand as ONE and we can overcome bully boy tactics by talking and agreeing change that has to be made.
Thank you
Merry Christmas
and a
Happy New Year
To you and your families.
Mike Yarwood
Area Delivery Rep
Merseyside Amal.
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