LTB 329/18 - CWU/RM Joint Statement - Shorter Working Week Introduction October 2018 in Delivery Units

[SpacePhoenix]

Space I have seen the outputs for most of the MPUs in the Uk from auto miss. Your wrong.

The reality is when CSS machines were launched in 2009/2010 they were planned on 7000-9000 items per hour. Most are now are achieving 11 000 per hour.

They were planned on achieving a 60 % on the first wave and 40% on second wave. Viritually all but a couple of MPUs produce more traffic on wave 1 than 60% some as high as 90%.

Work will not arrive an hour later into Delivery Offices. It will depend whether a Mail Centre has a sprinter provided for the arrival on LAT or a normal 17 toner and it will depend on that arrival. The assumption is what everyone time the last arrival lands in a Mail Centre then that Mail Centre needs 90 minutes to process and than to transport that to the relevant delivery office.

Royal Mail believe that each hour costs them 100 million and Royal Mail want that hour absorbed wherever possible hence why they have looked at PDA actuals for every office in the UK and put them in one of the 3 buckets. They also reviewed every Mail Centre shift effirency and traffic profile as well as agency use.

dingo, you must have no experience of how CSS machines work. Once that hour comes off the working day, the machines will be started an hour later, depening on how a MC or MPU works its rota, it could even be two hours and if shifts goto the wire now, with an hour taken off it's going to out later. You can dream on if you think the work isn't ever going to go out later. afaik the LAT won't pass through MCs but will go from RDCs direct. MCs barely have enough staff as it is, with casual use and managers working virtually a daily occurrence, probably on all shifts

[Creditshampoo]

In DOs that are MPUs, will it have any affect on their staff who operate their CSS machines? Will it mean that they start the sequencing later (with the knock-on affect of the sequenced mail going out to DOs an hour later? I can see some duties/functions in both MCs and DOs ending up with an hours compulsory SA every day.

CSS staff would start much later

[Creditshampoo]

On our CSS machines achieving over 9000 an hour is good....

[BELIAL]

Here we go again . Union says "it won't be a problem" ;management says "it's the way forward" How many times have we heard the same old crap where the workers end up getting shafted even more?
There must be a limit as to how often they can repeat the same old trick ,surely?

[SpacePhoenix]

@creditshampoo do the CSS staff at your DO do 2hrs on then 2 hrs off or 2hrs on and half an hour off?

[POSTMAN]

Now most duty patterns where start of finish times vary across the days of the week balance over 6 or twelve weeks due to days off etc.

How would that work with reserves? Or are these poor soles getting shafted again.

Reps and colleagues would need to be on the ball with noting downs the variation in mins/hrs and the 'balance'.
Will there be a lovely 'joint statement' about a system with work/spread sheets in place to record the mins/hrs worked.

Something official needs to be done so both sides know how it works.