UK union leaders say stress `pushing mail managers to breaking point'
Union leaders called today for an urgent meeting with Royal Mail after claiming that managers were at breaking point because of rising levels of stress.
Amicus said the workload of managers in the postal organisation had become intolerable following hundreds of job cuts.
The union said the problem was highlighted when a London-based manager asked if he could be demoted even though he would lose £15,000 a year in pay because he could no longer take the level of stress he was suffering from.
The union called for urgent talks with Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton to discuss the problem and said further redundancies should be stopped.
The union also called for the workload of managers to be reduced.
Assistant General Secretary Paul Talbot said: “There are many managers in Royal Mail who feel they are at breaking point because of their workloads.
“We need an urgent meeting with Allan Leighton to address this issue and we are calling on Royal Mail to consider the health of their loyal staff.”
A spokesman for the Royal Mail said the union’s concerns were “rubbish” adding: “We are not reducing the number of operational managers and we know from our own audits that stress levels are lower than industry averages and that 86% of our operational managers say they enjoy working for the company.”
