Tag: CWU

Post workers' fury at parcels on milk floats

Posted by | Aug 20, 2002 | |

Express Dairies has signed a contract with leading direct marketing firm ADM and yesterday began delivering books in Liverpool from an international book club.
The scheme was piloted in Wirral when Royal Mail, then Consignia, paid milkmen to deliver parcels earlier this year.
Company bosses at the dairy now say they expect to handle over 4.5 million items over the next 12 months and are hailing the contract as a major development in their service.
But unions fear it could open the floodgates for other companies to take contracts away from traditional postmen.
Mark Walsh, area representative for the Communication Workers Union (CWU), said: “We’ve argued all along that this work can be done by us.
“When the dairy in Wirral first started up, we helped them get going.
“We were involved in showing them the ropes – but now we find we’ve set them up to go against us.”
A total of around 400 jobs will be lost across Merseyside in the coming week with the closure of Parcelforce’s Bootle and Upton, Wirral, depots.

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Postal workers strike looms closer

Posted by | Aug 2, 2002 | |

The threat of the first national strike by postal staff for 30 years came closer yesterday when dates were set for a ballot of 180,000 workers in a row over jobs.
Members of the Communication Workers Union will start voting on August 27, with the result due on September 12.
The union has claimed that the employment conditions of 7,000 cleaners and engineers due to transfer from Consignia to a joint venture with Balfour Beatty will worsen.
General secretary Bill Hayes said loyal workers were having their pensions threatened and job security put at risk.
Any strike would be the first involving delivery, counters and parcels staff since 1971 when there was a six-week walkout.

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National postal strike threat moves closer

Posted by | Aug 1, 2002 | |

Dates have been set for a vote by postal workers whether take strike action for the first time in 30 years.
The Communication Workers Union’s 180,00 members will start voting on August 27, with the result due on September 12.
The union claims the employment conditions of 7,000 cleaners and engineers due to transfer from Consignia to a joint venture with Balfour Beatty will worsen.

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Consignia delays pounds 1bn deal to avoid a strike

Posted by | Jul 28, 2002 | |

Consignia has offered to delay a pounds 1bn plan to part-privatise its facilities department by three months in an attempt to see off a national postal strike.
The proposal was made at a heated meeting with Communication Workers Union (CWU) officials on Thursday, hours before the union was due to ballot its members on industrial action.
But it is understood the union has given the postal group a two-week ultimatum to agree to concessions before it asks its 180,000 Consignia members to vote on a series of one-day walkouts.
Consignia, chaired by Allan Leighton, wants to transfer 7,000 postal workers to a new company, 49 per cent owned by construction company Balfour Beatty.

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Union anger over Consignia boss's `Hacked off' letter

Posted by | Jun 18, 2002 | |

The chairman of postal group Consignia sparked a row with union leaders today after writing to workers saying he was “hacked off” with negotiators from both sides of the business.

Allan Leighton told 170,000 Royal Mail employees that union officials and managers were “struggling” to find time to talk about the link between a pay rise and the introduction of single deliveries.

“They must all be in the Costa del Sol, or watching every game in the World Cup, so in theory the pay deal cannot go through,” he wrote.

“Frankly I’m hacked off with the whole lot of them and I wouldn’t be surprised if you were too.”

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