LTB 220/23 - ORGANISING AND RECRUITMENT - BUILDING THE UNION - NEW STARTERS T&C'S

[POSTMAN]

LTB 220/23 - ORGANISING AND RECRUITMENT - BUILDING THE UNION
No: 220/23

23rd August 2023

TO: ALL POSTAL BRANCHES
Dear Colleague

ORGANISING AND RECRUITMENT – BUILDING THE UNION

Attached to this LTB is a letter we would ask you to use to engage every new entrant. It is crucial that we ensure every new employee joins the CWU.

The letter should be handed to new entrants, but CWU representatives should also use the arguments within it to encourage employees to join the union face to face as well.

We fully understand the pressure local branches are under at this point in time, but we need this work to be a priority in order to maintain our traditional workplace strength.

Alongside the above activity, Branches will be provided with as much information as possible from the postal department to:

Assist you in producing Branch plans to recruit new entrants.
Provide recruitment materials and joining forms (if needed).
Ensure that recruitment is an agenda item at every branch, regional and divisional meeting.
Map all workplaces.
Nationally we will be supporting this with a full communications plan. We will also be developing messaging to target long term employees who are not at this juncture members of the CWU. We will also be working on materials for business units and grades across Royal Mail Group.

All this work is an immediate intervention aimed at recruiting new entrants and building membership density across Royal Mail Group.

Additionally, the NEC and our Industrial Executives are urgently reviewing our overall recruitment strategy considering the impact of the pandemic, GROW campaign and industry defining disputes. Branches will have the opportunity to input into this review.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Yours sincerely



Dave Ward Andy Furey
General Secretary A/Deputy General Secretary (Postal)

[POSTMAN]

When you give them the letter-make sure they don't see this...

[ted_e_bear]

When you give them the letter-make sure they don't see this...

And don't forget to tell them

"they're still very attractive jobs"

If you tell them enough times they might start to believe it

[qwerty2]

No one’s gonna join this sh*tshow of a union
Sold us out
If we ever go on strike again I’ll be walking right through the picket line
p.s. I was on the picket line nearly every time we striked

[scoobydo79]

No one’s gonna join this sh*tshow of a union
Sold us out
If we ever go on strike again I’ll be walking right through the picket line
p.s. I was on the picket line nearly every time we striked

Ain’t gonna happen. Royal Mail watched us fold and are now safe in the knowledge that strikes will be un supported now. s**t show.

[Shirtbuttons]

I can never see us being on strike again. Total waste of time.

[enskied]

How convincing is he...

And forget the Union as they forgot us. Nothing left to fight for at all, just tick on until my s**t pension. Not long now

[toonshola]

Dave needs a new conservatory, Webb needs the last part of his Walter White conversion surgery and Furey needs more Jaffa cakes.
To any new starters possibly reading this, DO NOT give these creatures from the CWU any of your money. They don’t give two sh***s about us long timers and sold you out before you even signed up to this mess.

[Neebs]

[1617mel]

Mccauley it's a disaster , toying with people's livelihoods claiming its a good offer to wait 5 full years to be considered to gain the poor hourly rate that their fellow work colleagues are on! Then the union ask that they pay from that squalid offer, a contribution weekly to them, the union should be ashamed of this moment in time, we will not stop this, the manual working person who puts their hard work in daily, deserves more, its a Dailly toil day in day out, are the ones who will suffer, young people who arrive at RM will be startled by the amounts off work they will have to do for the pittance on offer, hang your heads in shame, all connected to this outcome..........

[Ad_bee]

LTB 220/23 b. Rent-seekers seek rent.

Please support our rent-seeker lifestyles as we pretend to solve the problems we created for you.

[LouBarlow]

LTB 220/23 b. Rent-seekers seek rent.

Please support our rent-seeker lifestyles as we pretend to solve the problems we created for you.

How are the union responsible for declining mail volumes and Royal Mail failing as a business? You could argue that more should have been done to prevent privatisation I guess, but that was inevitable.

[guardianangel]

Once they find out they are on worse conditions they will leave.

[worktotime]

When you give them the letter-make sure they don't see this...

yeh the jobs are that good no f****r wants them , and them that do come dont stay long , keep talking the bullshit

[daftlad]

We had a new starter this week,first one in two years…lasted ONE day