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No strikes until March

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2chorizon
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No strikes until March

Post by 2chorizon »

Change ballot runs out on 17th (or maybe 23rd) jan.

14 days notice required for new strike dates, it is now the 2nd of january.

New ballot results will be announced feb 13th then 14 days notice required for new strike dates, only 28 days in feb so absolute earliest new strike date will be 28th feb or basically MARCH!

Virtually nobody is going to start striking again in march after a 2 month hiatus.

It's all over. :Boo hoo!
Acca Dacca
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by Acca Dacca »

Change ballot runs until 17th Feb not Jan

The 6 months are

17th August to 17th Feb
If you tolerate this, then your paid break will be next
2chorizon
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by 2chorizon »

Ah well, i still cannot see them calling any more strike dates on the change ballot, "A period of calm" and all that guff.

At the very least then if they serve notice tomorrow (tues 3rd jan) it would be 18th jan as next strike date.

People would have just forgotten about the whole thing by then.

The new ballot is unlikely to yeild the massive majority yes vote again.
Last edited by 2chorizon on 02 Jan 2023, 15:57, edited 2 times in total.
hans solo
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by hans solo »

A period of executive action more like
We should have had ballot running consecutively with action
Always on the back foot it seems
2chorizon
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by 2chorizon »

hans solo wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 15:55
A period of executive action more like
We should have had ballot running consecutively with action
Always on the back foot it seems
Aside from a couple of posts on twitter (probably from some PR intern working from home) the CWU seem to have packed up for a long xmas break.
Surreypostie
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by Surreypostie »

2chorizon wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 15:51
Ah well, i still cannot see them calling any more strike dates on the change ballot, "A period of calm" and all that guff.

At the very least then if they serve notice tomorrow (tues 3rd jan) it would be 18th jan as next strike date.

People would have just forgotten about the whole thing by then.

The new ballot is unlikely to yeild the massive majority yes vote again.
Why would you want any more strikes at present? Think about it, we strike and there is a backlog.

The union are required by law to reballot us.

The union send out the papers and they get caught up in the backlog and are not delivered, if and when they are delivered we have to return them.

Royal Mail will not prioritise them,

If we fail to meet the threshold, the amount of votes that have to be cast and the percentage needed to take action all strikes are off.

Union are being sensible in my opinion.

We have walks with between 30 and 40 boxes of mail under the frames, you really want to be striking now when we have to ballot again? Go for it.
post6675
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by post6675 »

2chorizon wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 15:59
hans solo wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 15:55
A period of executive action more like
We should have had ballot running consecutively with action
Always on the back foot it seems
Aside from a couple of posts on twitter (probably from some PR intern working from home) the CWU seem to have packed up for a long xmas break.
The cwu twitter utterly embarrasses members and posties. Responding childishly to low effort trolls etc. Loosk childish. And there recent post of graffiti on a postbox saying 'up the cwu' is the icing
koolishy67
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by koolishy67 »

I doubt it any strike in Jan Feb
fasrfreddy
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by fasrfreddy »

No one seems to care about cage being closed. cwu never mentioned it ? All they care about is new staff (which there isn't any)
We need more progress nothing has moved and we are just getting all the changes
2chorizon
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by 2chorizon »

fasrfreddy wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 16:41
No one seems to care about cage being closed. cwu never mentioned it ? All they care about is new staff (which there isn't any)
We need more progress nothing has moved and we are just getting all the changes
Cage? You mean the SD locker ?

Our cage team have to porter for the first 4hrs of the nightshift, only allowed back to the cage from 2am-6am, they lost 60% of their work when the international tracked & signed for was taken away and thrown in the PSM. Heard the whole SD locker will be gone soon.
2chorizon
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by 2chorizon »

Surreypostie wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 16:07
2chorizon wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 15:51
Ah well, i still cannot see them calling any more strike dates on the change ballot, "A period of calm" and all that guff.

At the very least then if they serve notice tomorrow (tues 3rd jan) it would be 18th jan as next strike date.

People would have just forgotten about the whole thing by then.

The new ballot is unlikely to yeild the massive majority yes vote again.
Why would you want any more strikes at present? Think about it, we strike and there is a backlog.

The union are required by law to reballot us.

The union send out the papers and they get caught up in the backlog and are not delivered, if and when they are delivered we have to return them.

Royal Mail will not prioritise them,

If we fail to meet the threshold, the amount of votes that have to be cast and the percentage needed to take action all strikes are off.

Union are being sensible in my opinion.

We have walks with between 30 and 40 boxes of mail under the frames, you really want to be striking now when we have to ballot again? Go for it.
That is a good point RE the ballot papers, bit of a flakey excuse tho :crazy:

I like the time off, have got used to getting random days off :Very Happy
SpacePhoenix
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by SpacePhoenix »

2chorizon wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 17:10
fasrfreddy wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 16:41
No one seems to care about cage being closed. cwu never mentioned it ? All they care about is new staff (which there isn't any)
We need more progress nothing has moved and we are just getting all the changes
Cage? You mean the SD locker ?

Our cage team have to porter for the first 4hrs of the nightshift, only allowed back to the cage from 2am-6am, they lost 60% of their work when the international tracked & signed for was taken away and thrown in the PSM. Heard the whole SD locker will be gone soon.
Our SD locker apart from the person who sets it up and does the very early stuff, all the staff are out on the floor doing either packets or Tracked. They're not in the locker until they return from lunch. When the foreign specials started going via Tracked, a duty got taken out the locker. If RM ever did increase the availability of Tracked, I think we'd see a massive drop in the usage of SD. I reckon a good few people using SD do so for the tracking, if they've not got the option of using Tracked open to them
FilthyBloke
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by FilthyBloke »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 17:23
2chorizon wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 17:10
fasrfreddy wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 16:41
No one seems to care about cage being closed. cwu never mentioned it ? All they care about is new staff (which there isn't any)
We need more progress nothing has moved and we are just getting all the changes
Cage? You mean the SD locker ?

Our cage team have to porter for the first 4hrs of the nightshift, only allowed back to the cage from 2am-6am, they lost 60% of their work when the international tracked & signed for was taken away and thrown in the PSM. Heard the whole SD locker will be gone soon.
Our SD locker apart from the person who sets it up and does the very early stuff, all the staff are out on the floor doing either packets or Tracked. They're not in the locker until they return from lunch. When the foreign specials started going via Tracked, a duty got taken out the locker. If RM ever did increase the availability of Tracked, I think we'd see a massive drop in the usage of SD. I reckon a good few people using SD do so for the tracking, if they've not got the option of using Tracked open to them
Our ‘cage’ has closed now. Customers either have to redeliver or have it delivered to neighbour.
smok3y666
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by smok3y666 »

post6675 wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 16:23
2chorizon wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 15:59
hans solo wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 15:55
A period of executive action more like
We should have had ballot running consecutively with action
Always on the back foot it seems
Aside from a couple of posts on twitter (probably from some PR intern working from home) the CWU seem to have packed up for a long xmas break.
The cwu twitter utterly embarrasses members and posties. Responding childishly to low effort trolls etc. Loosk childish. And there recent post of graffiti on a postbox saying 'up the cwu' is the icing
They reply to the trolls but won't reply to serious questions like wtf are they doing about the executive actrion being forced in removing walks and where's the strike fund that they keep asking people to donate to.
FilthyBloke
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Re: No strikes until March

Post by FilthyBloke »

smok3y666 wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 17:43
post6675 wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 16:23
2chorizon wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 15:59
hans solo wrote:
02 Jan 2023, 15:55
A period of executive action more like
We should have had ballot running consecutively with action
Always on the back foot it seems
Aside from a couple of posts on twitter (probably from some PR intern working from home) the CWU seem to have packed up for a long xmas break.
The cwu twitter utterly embarrasses members and posties. Responding childishly to low effort trolls etc. Loosk childish. And there recent post of graffiti on a postbox saying 'up the cwu' is the icing
They reply to the trolls but won't reply to serious questions like wtf are they doing about the executive actrion being forced in removing walks and where's the strike fund that they keep asking people to donate to.
I barely look at their twitter now. Having photos of picket Lines with captions like “Look who’s joining us!” When it’s just some bloke dressed as Santa or postman pat or someone who had take no their dog to the picket.

And I don’t know why they reply to the trolls. They should answer some of the genuine concern it’s members have.