Member Info for Time2Kill

F all chance of work to rule ever happening in RM when so many employees rely upon o/t. Probably 50% of staff in my DO do o/t of some kind on a weekly basis.

But can you believe a word ST said when he even lied to the PC? The danger now for RM is if anybody is off sick they could just stay out for a full week or more on full pay, rather than return to work after a say or two then have another period of sickness later in the year.

Wasn't the only real hope for IDS that DK would launch a takeover bid &/or GLS would be spun off, I can now see the share price taking a bit hit this week.

Re point 5, would you prefer the CWU say they are not putting the vote to it's members as they fear a No vote? What good would that be for either side?

Unless RM see sense soon this dispute will never end, unless that's RM's ultimate plan. "smash the CWU, destroy the company"

The ballot is far from back on, as things stand you do wonder when it will take place and if it does any time soon it could well be a No vote.

What lies & misinformation?

Only an idiot would seek to ballot it's members knowing full well a No vote was the likely outcome, I'm not really sure what the answer is anymore as whilst the RM's response on Workspace was that they are prepared to abide by the agreement it seems clear from their actions they aren't abiding to the agreement.

RM have made a statement it on Workplace, they have once again suggested they'll work with the CWU on the revisions, increase headcount and reduce reliance on agency staff and work with the CWU to improve QoS, given that actions speak louder than words CWU members will want to see RM making some headway on their latest promises.

I'm pretty sure the CWU are waiting whether or not RM can offer the sweetener, there's already rumours the ballot is being delayed by a further week.

The big issue is for RM to make a reasonable return/profit they would have to increase postage costs substantially which, if they did, that would then have the knock on effect of reducing demand for letters even faster. Although with an election looming and the likely hood the elderly wealthy Tory voters are likely to favour Saturday deliveries over the rest of the UK population I can't see them agreeing to any changes in the USO this side of the election.

You're now starting to sound desperate, I'm still in two minds which way to vote myself in the absence of confirmation of the "bribe", reading your nonsense is pushing me towards voting no!

The impression I'm getting from the union bods is that it's up to us how we vote their's no signs anybody in the CWU is desperate for a Yes vote, even if you'd like to think they are.

Not sure they can move my start time by 3 hours without my approval, after all I didn't ask them to include my start and finishing times in my contract, I understand 30 mins is the maximum they can move them.

The big one is the sickness pay as that's the one where most financial savings will be made.

If Saturday mail is so important then why, after Monday, is it usually one of the lightest posts of the week? For urgent mail customers can still use special delivery or perhaps RM will introduce Tracked 24 for mail as well as parcels.

AS the problem for RM is that they are restricted in what T&C's they can "ram down employees throats" getting a "yes" is just as important to RM, possibly more so, as it is to the CWU. If the rumours are correct the money is coming from a surplus in the now closed defined pension fund so I doubt we'll ever get to see that money anyway, although most CWU members would probably take the money now if it was offered to them.

What's this tick tock nonsense, if CWU members do vote no it'll be a bigger disaster for RM than it will for it's workers, the fact that they've just announced a £1B loss proves they are the bigger loses. Let's just hope RM can offer a £1K sweetener to bride it's workers into accepting the deal.

How many RM shares has he bought in the last two weeks?

Sounds like he's having a mare with his UK investments, who knows he's thinking, he may feel the UK is not the place to invest any further money.

RM can't pick and choose the addressees/area's of the country they deliver to on a Sunday, the only hope is the losses they must incur on the rural deliveries are more than outweighed by the profits from the town deliveries, although if RM can't make a profit from delivering parcels they may as well just give up!!

ST's gone before any agreement was reached with the CWU and will do well to get a similar CEO's job at another high profile company having also failed with Track & Trace previously, personally I'd call that a victory whether his replacement is of a similar ilk or more pro the union/OFCOM only time will tell.

I'm pretty certain Royal Mail seek authority from OFCOM before they can increase the costs of stamps etc, if they need a bigger increase to be profitable why aren't they seeking bigger annual increases?

It'll be interesting to see if the new CEO sticks to ST's agenda or attempts to meet OFCOM's targets and scraps, or at least amendeds, the recent revisions.