Member Info for Time2Kill

JB - I think at this point there is no need for anymore formal face to face discussion…..all cards are on the table from both sides.

The business is continuing on with the plan and the union will carry on striking if that’s what they want to do.

Sooner or later one side will give way but at this moment in time I can’t see it being the business."

There's a meeting due to take place at ACAS on Monday and ST is giving big hints a joint stadium is going to be released ahead of the meeting. Hopefully both sides appreciate they need to move on their positions before RM self implodes.

"Delivery spans will increase whether we like it or not. Whether they are achievable or not. Collapsing of duties as opposed to full office revisions."

I know that's happening but your previous post suggested it was taking place use to mail being light for the last 2 days? My DO was like a typical Wednesday today (a day later than usual because of the BH) so no real proof that mail has dropped off so far.

If the strikes aren't working then why is now RM forecast to be making £690m losses, which is around double what they expected to make before the IA? Losses seems to be the only barometer to use to see if IA is being effective or not?

Surely any savings RM intended making with the changes to the T&C's have already been wiped out by these losses?

This is all over Workplace, one poor guy off with stress hasn't been paid for 2 weeks and is latest pay slip suggests he now owes RM £50!!

I'm no employment law expert but I'm surprised RM can just (unofficially) rewrite their sickness policy and then enforce it with immediate effect. Unless you are due to have an op etc then how can anybody have a Doctors Certificate on Day 1 of any sickness?

Not sure you can increase delivery spans just based on the results of two days mail following the NY break, tomorrow should be a good indicator as it'll be this weeks "Wednesday" if it's light again tomorrow it'll be a bit disconcerting. Although we've no idea what's going on with retail customers if they have mostly decided to continue using the likes of Evri, then do they intend returning when IA finally ends? ST now seems to be doing a good job of destroying RM as well as the CWU.

What a strange question as how am I supposed to know what ST's doing, all I can tell you is who's turning up for work at my DO.

Hearing that from who, as assuming IA comes to an end soon that seems a drastic drop?

It's a bit rich Rico criticising ST for his handling for the dispute when he quit whilst seemingly fighting a similar dispute with the CWU, at least ST turns up for work rather than WFH in a foreign country.

Assuming the Indeed reviews are a true reflection of the company I find it hard to believe anybody earns more net per hour working for them than the RM.

Unless you have direct contact to a board member or senior manager how does anybody know what our commercial customers think about the IA?

If you were an owner of a furniture company etc would you be impressed all your Boxing Day sales brochures were still stuck in frames rather then being delivered?? Or parcels either still waiting to be delivered or some lost for ever? Or Moonpig who've already announced profits will take a hit this financial year?

"I would assume that you are on the "those people" that have broken the strike. Each to their own, i suppose.
How about the erosion of future agreements. Thompson keeps banging the drum about how much more we are paid, than other couriers. If we roll over and die, then any future pay discussions, would not exist. We wouldn't get any rise.
Paid meal reliefs? Something else that will be take away. On spec working, just like amazon. The gig economy! Our current decimated pension? Stripped as bare as it could be, then falling in line with the government minimum.
I don't have young kids, but i do have child minding requirements. And even if I didn't, I quite like starting and finishing earlier than most of the normal jobs.
How much shiite should I eat before I'm forced out of a job that I like doing?"

That's all well and good but where does the CWU draw the line and eventually accept an offer, just before the strike collapses and, like the last strike, finish up accepting less than was originally offered? Whatever is agreed RM will keep on chipping away at the benefits, that was always going to be the case once the company was privatised and had shareholders demanding changes. What are you planning on doing striking every year costing you £2000+ in loss of wages to save £1000 in loss of allowances etc?

It also seems to be kept afloat by large Government subsidises:

"In 2020, the fall in mail volumes accelerated rapidly. Due to this, the universal postal service in France, which is one of La Poste's four public service missions, lost a lot of money (to the tune of 1.1 billion euros).

On 22 July 2021, the French Government announced it would allocate an annual budget of €500 to €520 million (depending on the quality of service results) to partially compensate for the universal postal service deficit."

Casperdog have you ever worked in a Delivery Office, or are you just assuming standards are low because ST suggested they were?

Casperdog a postie can only deliver what they can in their allocated shift, if it's going to take them longer in future then more undelivered items will just have to be brought back to the DO.

I'm not really sure what posties are striking for in my DO, most don't have young kids to worry about working later in the day, won't lose any of their allowances and are very unlikely to be made redundant. They seem to have been brainwashed by the union/union rep that they must strike.

You have to sense DW called RM's bluff with the two day strike before Christmas and must have been a bit shocked when RM let the strike go ahead, they've made a right hash of the strikes as RM now have at least two weeks to clear the backlog once that's cleared there's really no big ticket dates to disrupt as nobody really cares about Easter, mail wise.

You do have to wonder how many RM workers still support IA, I bet most don't even know what they are striking for but are either just following the majority or doing what their CWU official tells them to do, as things stand most must have now lost more in strike pay than they'll ever got from a payrise.

When they do who gets the £1.7B war chest??

What utter nonsense it's not like the workers are holding RM to ransom with ridiculous wage demands, all they wanted was a reasonable wage rise (one from a company who've recently admitted they've a £1.7B war chest) and a watering down of the proposed changes to the T&C's.

Whilst DW suggests the BOD are destroying a 500 year old company when asked what is alternative plan would cost he responded by stating he didn't have information about the business finances in that sense, so how does he know if his plan would save or also destroy the business? I can't see how regularly checking on a few elderly customers is going to be a big cash earner?

Prescriptions are delivered by middle aged gig economy workers directly from pharmacies and they seem quite happy with their lot.

I sense you haven't a clue what you are talking about as RM have already commenced delivering prescriptions:

https://www.pharmacy2u.co.uk/royalmail?PSID=Google_PPC&cid=PU_FY2223_SM_71700000095776364_58700007865552238&utm_source=GoogleAds&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_campaign=launch&gclid=Cj0KCQiAqOucBhDrARIsAPCQL1bKau1n2TnFw963TS9btuhmx0BxFlgY_UQ8SigrH6PwOPH-kzsDNhUaAqUWEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

What are you talking about as RM are already rumoured to be making show limited CR's? If you mean "fire & rehire" then that's not CR? I sense RM is doing just what it wants to do and the CWU are now totally powerless.