In Sheffield they were telling me that actually in their region, they've actually figured out the Sunday working, and they now do an innovative duty pattern where you work so many days on and so many days, off, they feel it's working, and they also said that you know, some of the team are happy to do the Sunday they'd rather do than the Saturday, maybe they want to play football or they're involved in a football training scheme.
So so I think there are ways of being smart around this so that we have enough of the team wanting to do those duties, and it's not forcing absolutely everyone to do that.
#We have the right days-but not necessarily in the right-order
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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. 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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im seeing a 4 on 4 off patern or 1 in 7 coming down the tracks.
I would not mind a 4 days on 4 days off pattern with increased pay for Sunday working. I believe Sunday parcel delivery drivers are currently paid £5 to £6 extra per hour.
+ a 6.6% pay rise to match the national living wage increase.
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the vast majority of Sunday’s are covered by temporary labour - that is not an economic business model - and CWU have always been clear - they want the core team to get the hours ….
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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. 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.
3 of our latest new recruits have Sundays in their contract, at the moment they are not being asked to work despite 2 Sundays being advertised as overtime.
Our Dom, to be fair, could be having those Sunday hours covered as duty and using the released weekday hours as a chance for more lapsing.
Is this what is meant as mandatory Sunday working as put out by the union ?
3 of our latest new recruits have Sundays in their contract, at the moment they are not being asked to work despite 2 Sundays being advertised as overtime.
Our Dom, to be fair, could be having those Sunday hours covered as duty and using the released weekday hours as a chance for more lapsing.
Is this what is meant as mandatory Sunday working as put out by the union ?
I would have expected ALL new recruits, recruited after a certain date to have the possibility of Sunday working written into their contracts
Why don't the union put in different purposes as well as the pay rise like private health care then it would not cost as much as they have theses private firms that harass u when ur off at lest then then can get u back to work a lot sooner
All our new starts have the possibility of Sunday working written into their contract yet all our Sunday work is done by agency staff - including one of our new starts who works Mon - Sat for RM (5 out of 6) and is employed by Manpower to work at RM on Sunday.
Go figure.
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Yesterday we had about 6/7 agency staff in.
There wasn't enough parcels to keep them all gainfully employed so a couple took out loops that had failed on Saturday and the rest prepped D2D.
Royal Mail are paying agency workers to prep D2D on Sunday and they have the nerve to say we need to be more efficient.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
