PEC agreed yesterday to make Royal Mail a fresh offer to suspend this week's planned strikes and implement a period of calm until the 16th Jan, subject to a joint statement

[POSTMAN]

https://www.cwu.org/ltb/ltb-510-22-roya ... es-update/

LTB 510/22 – ROYAL MAIL GROUP DISPUTES UPDATE
No. 510/22

20th December 2022





TO: ALL POSTAL BRANCHES



Dear Colleague

ROYAL MAIL GROUP DISPUTES UPDATE

Further to LTB 503/22, the Postal Executive agreed yesterday to make Royal Mail a fresh offer to suspend this week’s planned strikes and implement a period of calm until the 16th of January 2023, subject to the company signing up to an agreed Joint Statement, the content of which would confirm significant progress in resolving our disputes.

We have attached to this LTB a copy of the letter sent to CEO Simon Thompson this morning, alongside the proposed Joint Statement.

It is important that Branches, reps and members recognise that the union continues to take a responsible position through new initiatives aimed at resolving our disputes in the interests of members, customers and the company.

The proposed Joint Statement incorporates the company’s latest no compulsory redundancy position, alongside other job security commitments and a range of concessions the union would immediately require to suspend strike action. You will see we have given the company until 12 noon on Thursday 22nd December to finalise an agreed Joint Statement.

In the meantime, it’s crucial that the whole of the union continues to plan for this week’s strike action because we all know that despite the Christmas narrative RMG are playing out, it’s clear from the company’s actions that they are currently obsessed with continuing their worker and union busting tactics, rather than engaging in meaningful negotiations.

Finally, you will also see that the union has called upon the CEO to stop boasting about a £1.7 billion war chest to take the union on in the New Year; and instead use this money to invest in our members pay, terms and conditions and a future strategy for growth.

We will keep you updated on developments.

Please ensure the content of this LTB is circulated to all workplaces.

Yours sincerely



Dave Ward Andy Furey
General Secretary Acting Deputy General Secretary (Postal)


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RMG-CWU-Joint-Statement-20.12.22.pdf

20.12.22-Simon-Thompson-RMG.pdf

[CRIBMAD]

final throw of some heavily weighted dice methinks !

[Acca Dacca]

A joint statement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on

What are they thinking?!

[Postmanphat42069]

f**k this company and f**k this union.

[hans solo]

No agreement
No period of calm
f**k them
They’ve had 7 months to sort an agreement
We strike

[CRIBMAD]

they will shove the joint statement up dave's arse in January !

[sixfoottwo]

This to me looks like the union are being a bit weak here, we need more than that and then written in stone.

I can't believe it to be honest after the way Royal Mail are/have acted, very disappointed in this.

[broughts]

Pick up your pieces of silver at the door CWU

[banner18]

Looks like we’re getting well and truly bummed.

[sixfoottwo]

Looks like we’re getting well and truly bummed.

Yep has that feel and without lube.

F***ing fuming with this

[49erman]

Don’t worry Slymon won’t go for that, the strikes will still be on

[POSTMAN]

Dave Ward video added to 1st post.

[norris9]

This to me looks like the union are being a bit weak here, we need more than that and then written in stone.

I can't believe it to be honest after the way Royal Mail are/have acted, very disappointed in this.

Royal Mail won't accept all that, so we will strike 23rd and 24th....

Then it's a matter of time before Royal Mail force everything into place and the company dies on its ass.

[Kenfandango]

Some of the union decisions have annoyed me, but this is pretty smart from an optics perspective. The public are largely still on side despite RMs "union cancelled Christmas" rhetoric. This gives the CWU something to show the press to prove that they're at least trying to get some sense out of the turnips at head office

[Acca Dacca]

This to me looks like the union are being a bit weak here, we need more than that and then written in stone.

I can't believe it to be honest after the way Royal Mail are/have acted, very disappointed in this.

Royal Mail won't accept all that, so we will strike 23rd and 24th....

Then it's a matter of time before Royal Mail force everything into place and the company dies on its ass.

They don’t have to accept a single thing

All the union are wanting is a joint statement which holds RM to absolutely nothing

It’s a no brainier for RM. An early Christmas gift from the PEC