A lot is going on16 Nov 2022 19:55
It's unbelievable how quickly the company is moving. I've never seen anything like it in all my years here, and I've never seen them so prepared to just make things happen regardless of the CWU stance.
PDA OA - managers are being TOLD to use the information from these to challenge performance. The CWU would only ever allow it to "prompt a conversation", but if somebody's idle time (not moving) add up to too much they must be challenged and performance must be improved.
Vehicle telemetry - again, information from this to be used directly. We know who drove the van that had 6 speeding events on it last week but we never used it, now managers are being told to.
Indoor performance - the business has tools that tell them how long a job should take indoors, and they're agreed with the CWU, but we were never allowed to use that to expect people to achieve that performance. Now the guidance is to display expected completion times for certain jobs and challenge those not achieving them.
Revisions - used to be so much back and forth trying to get agreements with the CWU, now it's just a case of "here are your targets, cut jobs to achieve them" and the background work is happening at lightning speed.
They're even pressing on with a "frameless office" concept that, if successful (I have my doubts currently) would give them the opportunity to offload a tremendous amount of real estate with all of its associated overhead costs.
The business isn't waiting for talks to conclude or an agreement to be reached. They've already changed T's & C's for new members. Bolting horses and stable doors come to mind. The changes will have happened. Later start times WILL come in. Posties have long been blessed with excellent t&c's and a job that pays reasonably well, but the competitive world just won't continue to support this. I feel for them - it's not their doing, it's what happens in capitalism when competition exists.
And if I hear one more thing about going from £750m profit to £1m a day loss I'm going to lose my temper! RMG didn't make that much money. RMG has this issue where whether it receives a million letters or only a few hundred thousand, they still have to pay 115k posties their wages regardless. That's how easy it is to go from a profit to a loss.
And as for cross subsidy, if you owned two businesses yourself and one made money whilst the other didn't, what sort of mindset says you should take the cash from the good one to hold up the poor one? No - you make the poor one better by making the necessary changes so that BOTH of your businesses make money and you're laughing all the way to the shareholders!
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