@royalmailnews : We have shared more detail with CWU on our three year pay proposal

Post by **POSTMAN** » 21 Feb 2020, 12:44

Shane O’Riordain, Managing Director of Regulation, Corporate Affairs and Marketing, Royal Mail said:

Royal Mail has today put forward a proposal to CWU. It includes a six per cent three-year pay deal for our CWU-grade people. This means an increase, including the first hour of the shorter working week, of more than 16 per cent between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2023.

We have said that we can only afford to do this if we deliver on the Plan we announced to our stakeholders in May 2019. To do this, we need to change more quickly than before.

Our proposal underlines our commitment to being the best employer in our industry. It maintains our policy of no compulsory redundancies for frontline operational colleagues. We will not become a gig economy employer. We will not introduce zero hours contracts for permanent employees. Nor would we look to outsource Royal Mail’s core operations.

We want to invest £1.8 billion in the UK. We need to turnaround and grow our UK business. This means the further automation of parcels, including the deployment of three new automated parcel hubs. Most of our parcels are currently hand sorted, just as they were in the Victorian period.

We will introduce a second van delivery in most parts of the country. This is about capitalising on the growth of “night owl” shopping. We will do this by introducing around 7,000 dedicated van delivery routes from c300 delivery offices by 2023. Delivery of letters and small parcels will remain unchanged through our existing Delivery Office network

UK letter volumes are expected to decline by 75 per cent in the 2004 – 2024 period. So, over the next four years, we plan to carefully reduce the number of daily walks from c58,000 to c50,000. Alongside this, we want to invest in the upgrading of the infrastructure that delivers the Universal Service. This means £115 million invested in upgrading our facilities, and £400 million in new vehicles to improve the fleet.

Our plan is about a modern, contemporary Universal Service. It is about what our customers want. It is about ensuring we remain the best employer in our industry. We hope to convince the union to support us to grow Royal Mail.

Post by **POSTMAN** » 21 Feb 2020, 13:04

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DiamondSmiles · Post by **DiamondSmiles** » 21 Feb 2020, 14:24

Who wrote that, a ten year old? Littered with grammatical errors. 2/10 must do better.

worktotime · Post by **worktotime** » 21 Feb 2020, 15:50

what a load of shite , do these people think we are all

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JKSmudge · Post by **JKSmudge** » 21 Feb 2020, 16:07

This means an increase, including the first hour of the shorter working week, of more than 16 per cent between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2023.

We didn't get a pay rise in 2017 - so it's also 16 per cent between 1 April 2017 and March 2023. Selective truth.

Woody Guthrie · Post by **Woody Guthrie** » 21 Feb 2020, 16:16

JKSmudge wrote:
This means an increase, including the first hour of the shorter working week, of more than 16 per cent between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2023.

We didn't get a pay rise in 2017 - so it's also 16 per cent between 1 April 2017 and March 2023. Selective truth.

It's not even close to that for a full-timer.
Throwing in the SWW completely ignores the fact that the SWW didn't increase my take home pay at all.

scoobydo79 · Post by **scoobydo79** » 21 Feb 2020, 16:38

“best employer in the industry “ Says the employer that breaks agreements and fights their staff in the courtroom

richietns · Post by **richietns** » 21 Feb 2020, 17:17

The rest of the industry (gig economy) isnt hard to beat.

Ren Hoëk · Post by **Ren Hoëk** » 21 Feb 2020, 17:26

I like the fact that they are making out that they have offered us a 16% pay deal to resolve the dispute. Regardless of the fact any pay increase we had was due to past agreements. Which they are now selectively ignoring. Royal Mail seem to be embracing Trumps "Fake News" doctrine.

The union comms team need to make it very clear that we have not been offered 16% at all. That 16% figure is directed at Joe public to make us posties seem like unreasonable greedy sods!

Post by **rogersh** » 21 Feb 2020, 17:42

JKSmudge wrote:
This means an increase, including the first hour of the shorter working week, of more than 16 per cent between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2023.

We didn't get a pay rise in 2017 - so it's also 16 per cent between 1 April 2017 and March 2023. Selective truth.

Exactly Smudge - I have posted the same previously.

The actual pay rises implemented;

April 2017 would normally be the point for the pay review.
In May 2018 the 5% pay increase was awarded & backdated to October 2017.
In October 2018 the first hour was implemented which was effectively a 2.6% increase to the hourly rate.
In April 2019 the 2% pay increase was awarded.

So my calculation is a 9.6% increase over 3 years.

Post by **cockneyrebel** » 21 Feb 2020, 18:25

Unclear if Mr O'Riordain is a regular watcher of BBCs financial news
But NATIONAL FISCAL STUDIES report this week UK at present £512 a week is average wage !!!!!
Ours £444 ???
our job one of the most physical and unsociable hours !!!
Reduce the routes by 8,000 ??
Government goal in next few years 120, 000 new homes !!!
population of UK increase by over 100,000 each year ??
people living longer !!
over 90% people over 70 no computer or app phone
by all accounts 4 million people in UK 70 or over ????
Hence reliant mostly on post or landline !!
don't know about other depots
but we give out overtime like confetti !!
ageing workforce -fatigue/Illness/injury rife !!
you want us to do more ??
managers 2.6% rise and £1,000 bonus December ??
you expect the foot soldiers to settle for less ???

Phantom · Post by **Phantom** » 21 Feb 2020, 19:24

All the comms coming out of Royal mail is for the shareholders and shareholders only.

I've never read so much s**t in my life.

All they've got to do is work TOGETHER, that's it.

Vote YES and f**k em

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 22 Feb 2020, 23:27

Self serving bastard drive the business down and profit what a genius he is did I say genius more like Penis sole share holder in RM a fine up standing member of the community of selfdom land hope the guy chokes on one!

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 23 Feb 2020, 22:39

Read between the lines of the colleague update and you can see all the stuff Martin Walsh as told us about.
We don't want a pay rise or the SWW - we want you to run the business in a competent fashion and to keep our jobs.
The most efficient way to deliver is once across the ground which is what we currently do.

Ren Hoëk · Post by **Ren Hoëk** » 24 Feb 2020, 05:40

Celgar wrote:Read between the lines of the colleague update and you can see all the stuff Martin Walsh as told us about.
We don't want a pay rise or the SWW - we want you to run the business in a competent fashion and to keep our jobs.
The most efficient way to deliver is once across the ground which is what we currently do.

I definitely want a pay rise as inflation will make us poorer else. I would also quite like that hour for the sww with an aim to get to 35 hours. As was promised. That should be the goal. Our job is hard physical labour and anytime not spent labouring is a good thing.

"The most efficient way to deliver is once across the ground which is what we currently do"

That I want to agree with but we will have to wait and see if that is true. They are trialing the separation of packets after all.

Both sides must be honest.