NOTICE FOR LOCAL DELIVERY REPS : Blanket overtime ban

[POSTMAN]

NOTICE FOR LOCAL DELIVERY REPS

Over the last couple of weeks reps have reported that in some locations management have introduced a blanket overtime ban.

We have made representations including reviewing those units - including levels of sickness, vacancies, adverse weather and current against normal levels of overtime.

This has helped resolve several units, alongside the work that is being done at local, area and divisional level.

If local reps believe that overtime has been banned in their unit then this should be raised immediately in the first instance with the Area Reps and Divisional Reps.

If this still does not resolve the problem then it should be raised Nationally.

Martin Walsh
Deputy General Secretary (Postal)

Tony Bouch
Outdoor Secretary

[scotchy1962]

That horse bolted weeks ago when they stopped o/t in our office, not that i care as i only work to my time, but they are lapsing duties as well so there are days when tracked are brought back. I for one am happy enough.

[Perseus]

Going by the CWU post on facebook it looks like it's the majority of offices

[fallenworld202233]

going lose a lot of good postmen because of overtime ban, people rely on overtime, ridiculus considering the cost of living these days, if people start leaving then u think it would cost the employer more in long run constantly recruiting,

[Londonsburning]

So is the ongoing overtime ban just within Delivery Offices, or is it company wide?

[postslippete]

Oh come on Martin do keep up! The overtime ban has been happening in most delivery offices for a couple of weeks and you have only decided now to do something about it. Is it because some offices are going t*ts up by any chance?

If this still does not resolve the problem then it should be raised Nationally And obviously you are happy to delay things even further. I'm sure RM managers will be quaking in their leather shoes at the thought of the CWU sending a strongly worded letter! I'm surprised you haven't visited any of these offices while you were up in the North East.

But tbh I couldn't really care less. Leave the mail, deliver the parcels as standard is what the Union agreed. So what difference does it make? Happy days

[tramssirhc]

Yet another pisspoorly worded statement. How hard can it be to say 'there is no overtime ban'. Neither of these clowns can because it's not their company to run. The CWU is as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

[richj2009]

Funny how fines for mail failure lead to an overtime ban I mean literally WTF!!!!

[sjscfc84]

Banned in Swansea

[tramssirhc]

There is no overtime ban. There's budgets that the CWU has fully agreed with. The CWU knows full well what's happening. The CWU has done nothing to challenge the USO reduction. The days of clear offices ruling are well and truly over. Martin Walsh keeps telling you there's no money.

[Jb1969]

There is no overtime ban. There's budgets that the CWU has fully agreed with. The CWU knows full well what's happening. The CWU has done nothing to challenge the USO reduction. The days of clear offices ruling are well and truly over. Martin Walsh keeps telling you there's no money.

Really, you seriously think the CWU has influence with regards setting budgets.
Personally I think that’s some 21 yr old just out of uni sitting at a pc in London who says the computer says it’s possible!

[Dingo99]

Worked my hours today, 7:39 - 14:59, no overtime available. I have a singleton trolley duty and could only fit just over half the duty into my HCT with all the bloody packets I had, and by the time I got back to DO I didn't have time to go out and clear more letters, Virgin Media mass mailing too. So I am buggered for tomorrow and I have been told there is lapsing tomorrow, what a joke, gonna leave it in my managers hands what to do, no doubt I won't be able to fit the second half in (I will have to rotate failure), along with the lapsing, sick of this b.s!

[tramssirhc]

There is no overtime ban. There's budgets that the CWU has fully agreed with. The CWU knows full well what's happening. The CWU has done nothing to challenge the USO reduction. The days of clear offices ruling are well and truly over. Martin Walsh keeps telling you there's no money.

Really, you seriously think the CWU has influence with regards setting budgets.
Personally I think that’s some 21 yr old just out of uni sitting at a pc in London who says the computer says it’s possible!

The divisional reps sit in on the daily calls. They know full well what's going on.

[clashcityrocker]

There is no overtime ban. There's budgets that the CWU has fully agreed with. The CWU knows full well what's happening. The CWU has done nothing to challenge the USO reduction. The days of clear offices ruling are well and truly over. Martin Walsh keeps telling you there's no money.

Have the rank and file committee challenged the budgets with some success then?

[enzio1272]

We have an overtime ban in place, but not for working your day off or if your an agency worker