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Royal Mail threatened strikes plan cut Saturday deliveries
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Re: Royal Mail threatened strikes plan cut Saturday deliveries
Oh for f***s sake indeed
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Re: Royal Mail threatened strikes plan cut Saturday deliveries
“We have been discussing how we deploy the changes with the CWU for 18 months and have also been piloting a new delivery model. These pilots show the model is working, with increased efficiency and improved service levels, including over Christmas when volumes doubled.”
It's odd we seem to be told something different by staff working in the pilot offices?
It's odd we seem to be told something different by staff working in the pilot offices?
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Re: Royal Mail threatened strikes plan cut Saturday deliveries
Royal Mail staff are threatening fresh strike action after the postal service issued an ultimatum over its planned shake-up of letter deliveries.
The company has been locked in a lengthy standoff with the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents more than 100,000 postal staff, over looming reforms that include scrapping Saturday second-class letter deliveries.
While the CWU has said it supports the overhaul in practice, the two sides have failed to agree on how to implement the changes. The union insists that trials of the reforms, which began a year ago, are not working and has accused Royal Mail bosses of being in “denial”.
A plan to roll out the new delivery timetable was due to be agreed upon by July 2025, but talks have now dragged on for 18 months without an agreement.
Royal Mail has now initiated a formal dispute resolution process lasting one month. If a deal is not reached by this deadline, the company will push ahead with its planned implementation.
The ultimatum sparked a furious response from the CWU, which stated that it would not support or agree to Royal Mail’s proposals in their current form.
In a message to members, union bosses threatened industrial action on a local or national level should the company push ahead without an agreement in place.
The threat is the clearest sign to date that Royal Mail workers could return to the picket line after a bruising 2022 strike that lasted for more than a year and cost the company £1m a day.
In November, the CWU escalated its rhetoric by turning on Daniel Kretinsky, the Czech billionaire who bought Royal Mail for £3.6bn last year.
In a letter to MPs, the union blamed late letter-deliveries on “chaos” under the new ownership and accused Mr Kretinsky’s EP Group of failing to adhere to the terms of an agreement struck as part of his takeover.
The CWU is pushing for a three-way meeting with EP Group and Peter Kyle, the Business Secretary, but has yet to secure a date.
The row is centred on planned reforms to Royal Mail’s universal service obligation (USO), which requires it to deliver anywhere in the UK six days a week. Bosses have said these rules are unsustainable amid a sharp drop in letter-sending.
In addition to scrapping second-class letter deliveries, Ofcom has agreed to relax Royal Mail’s quality-of-service targets. The postal service has been fined more than £36m over the last three years after repeatedly missing its targets.
A source close to Royal Mail insisted it wanted to reach an agreement with the CWU, but said it was now aiming to roll out the reforms in the spring.
The union backlash is proving a major setback for Mr Kretinsky’s EP Group, which is relying on USO reforms as part of its plan to modernise Royal Mail and refocus the company on parcels.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: “Universal Service reform is essential for our future, and any further delay in deploying the changes threatens our financial resilience, particularly at a time of significantly increased costs for Royal Mail.
“We have been discussing how we deploy the changes with the CWU for 18 months and have also been piloting a new delivery model. These pilots show the model is working, with increased efficiency and improved service levels, including over Christmas when volumes doubled.”
The company has been locked in a lengthy standoff with the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents more than 100,000 postal staff, over looming reforms that include scrapping Saturday second-class letter deliveries.
While the CWU has said it supports the overhaul in practice, the two sides have failed to agree on how to implement the changes. The union insists that trials of the reforms, which began a year ago, are not working and has accused Royal Mail bosses of being in “denial”.
A plan to roll out the new delivery timetable was due to be agreed upon by July 2025, but talks have now dragged on for 18 months without an agreement.
Royal Mail has now initiated a formal dispute resolution process lasting one month. If a deal is not reached by this deadline, the company will push ahead with its planned implementation.
The ultimatum sparked a furious response from the CWU, which stated that it would not support or agree to Royal Mail’s proposals in their current form.
In a message to members, union bosses threatened industrial action on a local or national level should the company push ahead without an agreement in place.
The threat is the clearest sign to date that Royal Mail workers could return to the picket line after a bruising 2022 strike that lasted for more than a year and cost the company £1m a day.
In November, the CWU escalated its rhetoric by turning on Daniel Kretinsky, the Czech billionaire who bought Royal Mail for £3.6bn last year.
In a letter to MPs, the union blamed late letter-deliveries on “chaos” under the new ownership and accused Mr Kretinsky’s EP Group of failing to adhere to the terms of an agreement struck as part of his takeover.
The CWU is pushing for a three-way meeting with EP Group and Peter Kyle, the Business Secretary, but has yet to secure a date.
The row is centred on planned reforms to Royal Mail’s universal service obligation (USO), which requires it to deliver anywhere in the UK six days a week. Bosses have said these rules are unsustainable amid a sharp drop in letter-sending.
In addition to scrapping second-class letter deliveries, Ofcom has agreed to relax Royal Mail’s quality-of-service targets. The postal service has been fined more than £36m over the last three years after repeatedly missing its targets.
A source close to Royal Mail insisted it wanted to reach an agreement with the CWU, but said it was now aiming to roll out the reforms in the spring.
The union backlash is proving a major setback for Mr Kretinsky’s EP Group, which is relying on USO reforms as part of its plan to modernise Royal Mail and refocus the company on parcels.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: “Universal Service reform is essential for our future, and any further delay in deploying the changes threatens our financial resilience, particularly at a time of significantly increased costs for Royal Mail.
“We have been discussing how we deploy the changes with the CWU for 18 months and have also been piloting a new delivery model. These pilots show the model is working, with increased efficiency and improved service levels, including over Christmas when volumes doubled.”
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It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Re: Royal Mail threatened strikes plan cut Saturday deliveries
I thought we lost £1m every day, so industrial action really was ineffective.
I really hate reading these articles about work because it always reveals that whoever wrote it is clueless; and what's worse, is then misinforming the public. There must be people out there now that, having read that line, think 2C has ceased to exist as a product. So that'll be 1C volumes increasing. Now I wonder if that was a ploy by RM, who almost certainly would have had right of reply to correct inaccuracies in the article.
The machine stops.