Tag: Mail Services

Royal Mail have said that the rejection of a national strike on the company’s 14.5% pay offer offered everyone in Royal Mail the opportunity to focus on completing the company’s turnaround and continuing to improve customer service.

Chief Executive Adam Crozier said, “This is good news. The great majority of our people, and all of our customers, will feel relief at what is a common sense result. We put 14.5% over 18 months on the table because we believe it gives postmen and women a fair weekly wage and offers customers the best prospects for long-term stability. Our overriding priority is to move forward and get the money into people’s pockets.”

The discussions between Royal Mail and the union have adjourned again, and will continue tomorrow morning.

In the meantime the negotiating team led by deputy general secretary Dave Ward is updating the postal executive committee on the discussions.

The result of the ballot has not being announced and may not be announced today in order to allow negotiations to continue without unnecessary pressure.

The position is still as follows:
The union nationally is not doing any media interviews until we announce the ballot result. It could affect the talks between senior Royal Mail and CWU negotiators.

Postal workers have narrowly voted against a national strike in a dispute over pay and conditions, according to regional union officials.
Workers had been expected to vote overhwhelmingly in favour of strikes.

But according to union sources, the ballot has reportedly been lost by a margin of as little as 2,000 votes.

Royal Mail have announced the launch of a joint venture with data services company, Alphanumeric Limited (trading as Jaywing). The new company, Jaywing Central Limited (“Jaywing Central”), will provide a communications management solution for direct marketers.

Jaywing Central will be the first true end-to-end multi-channel communications management resource for medium and large companies. Jaywing Central will be looking to improve performance in acquisition, achieve improved renewal rates, and increased effectiveness in direct marketing through segmented customer communications management.