LTB 330/16 - Terms of Reference between Royal Mail and the CWU Covering the Deployment of Manual Optimised Sort Selections (OSS) at Two Trial Mail Centres and the Consequential Impact on the DOs

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LTB 330/16 - Terms of Reference between Royal Mail and the CWU Covering the Deployment of Manual Optimised Sort Selections (OSS) at Two Trial Mail Centres and the Consequential Impact on the Delivery Offices

No. 330/2016

25th May 2016

For the Immediate Attention of All:

Postal Branches

Terms of Reference between Royal Mail and the CWU Covering the Deployment of Manual Optimised Sort Selections (OSS) at Two Trial Mail Centres and the Consequential Impact on the Delivery Offices



Dear Colleagues

Branches are informed that in late January 2016 the Union was approached by the business in relation to reviewing Mail Centre manual sort selections under a project titled Optimised Sort Selections (OSS). The business proposal related to activity in Mail Centres to standardise 64 selection sort frames for manual and large letters across the Network, reducing the need for secondary sortation on Inward and Outward.

The business’ view was that the variations in sort selections had evolved over a long period of time and had never been reviewed against a National set of principles that seek to balance workload and optimise sortation.

Given that the proposals that were presented potentially impacted on both Mail Centres and Delivery units we believed that the issue needed to be progressed via both departments and therefore cross departmental discussions have been taking place with the business.

In order to facilitate the trial the attached Terms of Reference have now been agreed and endorsed by the Postal Executive.

The overall aim of this trial is to assess the realistic benefits that can be achieved, verify the base data held centrally and understand the implications for any proposed National deployment.

The trial will involve two Mail Centre areas:

Warrington in the West – relatively few changes on the Inward function
Nottingham in the East – complex Inward changes
In addition to the above Mail Centre’s the trial will incorporate a number of Delivery Offices within each of the trial areas, details of these are appended to the Terms of Reference at Annex A.

Branches and representatives will note that attendance patterns and earnings packages are protected during the duration of the trial activity and that the full involvement of CWU, IR and Health and Safety Representatives has been secured along with any necessary release to allow full participation. Equally, current workplan and service level agreements will be maintained throughout the trial.

The outputs of the trial will be subject to joint review and any decision on subsequent further roll out will be a matter for National agreement.

Any enquiries in relation to this LTB should be addressed to Davie Robertson, Assistant Secretary, email: dwyatt@cwu.org or shayman@cwu.org quoting reference number: 714.17

or

Mark Baulch, Acting Assistant Secretary, email outdoorsecretary@cwu.org quoting reference number: 535

Yours sincerely

Davie Robertson Mark Baulch

Assistant Secretary Acting Assistant Secretary

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Can't see this working for inward as each MC will have a different number of DOs and some of them DOs will be getting splits for different areas within the DOs