Eastern No 5 Branch FinancesMonthly Balances/Surplus/Deficits and 1st-3rd Quarterly Surplus/Deficits

 

1st QUARTER

 

Opening balance 1st January​​£39,841.78

Closing balance 31st January​​£37,903.58

Surplus/Deficit​​​​£1,938.20 –

 

Opening balance 1st February​​£37,903.58

Closing balance 28th February​​£45,144.11

Surplus/Deficit​​​​£7,240.53

 

Opening balance 1st March​​£45,144.11

Closing balance 31st March​​£42,880.34

Surplus/Deficit​​​​£2,263.77 –

 

1st Quarter Surplus/Deficit​​£3,038.56

 

2nd QUARTER

 

Opening balance 1st April​​£42,880.34

Closing balance 30th April​​£94,675.35​

Surplus/Deficit​​​​£51,795.01​

 

Opening balance 1st May​​£94,675.35​

Closing balance 31st May​​£89,579.32​

Surplus/Deficit​​​​£5,096.03 – ​

 

Opening balance 1st June​​£89,579.32​

Closing balance 30th June​​£91,247.97​

Surplus/Deficit​​​​£1,668.65​

 

2nd Quarter Surplus/Deficit​​£48,367.63​

 

3rd QUARTER

 

Opening balance 1st July​​£91,247.97

Closing balance 31st July​​£89,030.06

Surplus/Deficit​​​​£2,217.91

 

Opening balance 1st August​​£89,030.06

Closing balance 31st August​​£88,514.81​

Surplus/Deficit​​​​£515.25

 

Opening balance 1st September​​£88,514.81

Closing balance 30th September​£81,669.48

Surplus/Deficit​​​​£6,845.33

 

 

3rd Quarter Surplus/Deficit​​£9,578.49

Total surplus for 1st Jan-30th Sep 2015 is £41,827.70

 

End of year figures will be available in early January 2016. A full report will also be produced at the Branch AGM on January 17th. Hard copies will be available upon request and distributed to workplaces after the AGM.

 

 

CWU Eastern No 5

Branch Auditors 2016

In line with Branch rules, the Branch requires 2 lay members to act as Auditors for the period between the 2016 and 2017 Branch AGM’s. The 2016 AGM will take place on Sunday January 17^th at Peterborough Indoor Bowls Club, Burton Court, Peterborough, PE1 5HA starting at 10.30am.

For ease of reference, the exact rule is as follows;

4. Lay Branch Auditors
5. a) The Branch AGM shall elect two lay Branch Auditors who shall not be Branch Officers or Branch Committee members. Their names shall be circulated to members and notified to CWU HQ Finance Dept. upon their election.
6. b) The lay Branch Auditors shall examine and audit all Branch Accounts to ensure accuracy and shall have the right to examine and question the Branch Finances, financial policy, income and expenditure on behalf of the lay membership. All vouchers, receipts, bank statements, documents, accounts books, remittance forms and ledgers shall be examined to verify accuracy or otherwise. Lay Branch Auditors shall also verify all cash at the Bank and shall satisfy themselves that all Branch income and expenditure is accounted for.
7. c) The lay Branch Auditors shall produce a signed statement to Branch members and copy it to CWU HQ Finance Dept. declaring they have executed their responsibilities.

Once the auditors have been elected, they shall meet with the Branch Treasurer once a quarter to carry out the tasks under section b) above.

If you wish to nominate yourself as Branch Auditor or wish to know further details please call the Branch Office on 01733 382512, write to CWU Eastern No 5, FREEPOST, PO Box 438, Peterborough, PE4 5PE or email branch.secretary@cwue5.org, cwue5treasurer@gmail.com or ahso@cwue5.org.

Closing date for nominations is Thursday 31^st December 2015.

Austin Goldsmith

CWU Eastern No 5

Branch Treasurer

November 2015

Royal Mail Resourcing, Recruitment and Professional Manpower Planning

(please note a ‘joint statement has been mentioned in this post, which has been published to all branches)

It is now obvious to all that over many months there has been growing tension at local level as a consequence of the company’s resourcing strategy which has arguably driven a conflict with our commitments to deliver excellent quality of service and our agreed resourcing principles.
We believe, not surprisingly, that this situation has created enhanced stress on individuals and on IR relationships. Despite a concerted effort by Local, Area and Divisional Representatives it had become evident that clarification and a response from national level was required.
The Postal Executive therefore considered an appropriate response to deal with the immediate and on-going resourcing approach and in light of this national representation has been made. As a consequence over the past few weeks we have seen a huge recruitment drive across the country to address the immediate problem and the attached Joint Statement has been agreed to reaffirm our joint commitments and inform the approach going forward.
The Joint Statement provides the required renewed focus on adopting a far more professional approach to resourcing, ensuring we work to our agreed resourcing principles and our responsibility to the public we serve.
Particular highlights are;
The important reminder to all that our objective is to retain our position as the pre-eminent delivery company in the UK, to provide a reliable high quality service to our customers, to honour our heritage and to maintain the trust of the people of the UK to deliver the six day a week Universal Service Obligation (USO).

The full recommitment to our current job security and resourcing agreements and their spirit and intent.

The commitment to develop and deploy joint training to embed our agreed resourcing principles.

Immediate local reviews to ensure our resourcing principles are being applied to agency, temporary and part-time resource.

That regular agency resource is converted into contracted resource in line with our resourcing principles.

That sufficient release time is provided to local Representatives to prepare, participate and deploy any required outcomes of the mandatory weekly resourcing meetings.

Confirmation that it is the responsibility of local Managers and local Representatives to agree local resourcing needs.

Recognition that where there are new entrant retention issues the situation can be positively influenced by the contract offered and the training provided.

Joint acceptance that Managers should not be performing OPG work and that when a local resourcing plan has been agreed any such occasion should only be in exceptional circumstances, equally if those circumstances do occur they should be recorded locally and nationally.

To ensure that there is no misinterpretation of the joint activity that this Statement seeks to encourage the Joint Statement makes it absolutely clear that;
‘It is agreed that this Joint Statement concerns itself with resourcing principles and not major structural change or in depth revision activity and should not be considered in that context’.
Branches should ensure that this LTB is given the widest possible circulation and that it is brought to the attention of local Representatives immediately.
_Any enquiries in relation to this LTB should be addressed to the DGS(P) Department.

Yours sincerely,
_
Terry Pullinger
Deputy General Secretary (P)

Click on the link below to view joint statement

Final National Joint Statement Between Royal Mail CWU Covering Resourcing Recruitment and Professional Manpower Planning in our Operation

Branch Youth officer Forum – Report and Matters Arising 

As branches may already be aware, following the last Branch Youth Officers’ forum in June, a report of the event was produced. This is attached for your information.
In the report, 9 clear “action points” can be identified. These are detailed below together with a commentary on how it is intended to progress them. 

ACTION POINT
COMMENT
Have a former CWU Youth Committee member as a guest speaker
This will be done
Produce a brief history of the union
Discussions with the Comms and Research Departments to produce a visual record of this are planned
More information on the basics of the BYO role
An explanatory video will be produced in time for Youth Conference 2016
Introduce group sessions to enable participants to speak about their branch, issues and solutions
This will be done
Update the BYO Toolkit and distribute
In discussion with the Education and Training department, a new version of the tool kit will be developed for the Left Click platform in 2016
Scope the possibility of producing a welcome pack available on request (such as when a new BYO is elected)
The Youth Committee will be agreeing how to progress this at their meeting on 30 October
Arrange a Q&A session either via social media of the CWU Youth website – or both
The Youth Committee and Communications Department are scoping how this will work in practice
Arrange further BYO forum, outside of London
This will take place on either 25 May or 8 June in the Newcastle
 
Any queries on this Letter to Branches should be directed to my office at CWU HQ.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Simon Sapper
National Officer

Trial Deployment of a Telephone Accident Reporting Process 

Following an approach by Royal Mail, a number of meetings have taken place between the company and the department on the above subject. At those meetings, we raised and have subsequently addressed a number of concerns over the proposed trial and are now satisfied that we have been able to agree a Terms of Reference, supplemented with further documents that will form a training package for those offices included in the trial.  

 

The documents included are:

 

• Terms of Reference

• Accident details card

• Proposed process chart for new reporting process

• Advice on use of PDA telephoning

• Advice and guidance at the scene of an accident

• LEX questions at the scene / following and RTA

 

The purpose of the trial is not to replace, change or amend the current reporting process contained within the Road Traffic Accident Procedure, but an attempt to speed up the process from the scene of the accident so that potential 3rd party claims can be dealt with as soon as possible. It is estimated that 63% of RTA’s do not arrive with LEX Autolease within the specified 24 hour reporting period, therefore leading to costs that could be avoidable when dealing with 3rd party claims, including being unable to recover the cost of damage to Royal Mail vehicles. It is further recognised that the quality of information reported on the ERICA form in many cases is missing or unclear which severely delays the legal process for Royal Mail solicitors, STRATA.

 

We recognise that our members can encounter a considerable amount of shock and stress when involved in an RTA, therefore, for the purpose of this trial, the driver has the opportunity to speak to someone more experienced in dealing with individuals following a RTA. At the same time, only if or when the driver deems it is safe to do so, they can telephone LEX Autolease from their PDA who will ask the driver a number of questions relating to the circumstances surrounding the accident that will provide immediate information to STRATA so that the legal process can commence as soon as possible. The conversation between LEX and the driver should only take around 7-8 minutes, and no delay to the delivery or collection of the mail following an RTA and entering this process will be held against the driver. The safety and wellbeing of the driver is paramount, therefore the driver can make the call when they get back to their office if they chose to. To ensure the viability of the trial we would encourage full co-operation/participation from drivers and delivery office managers.

 

 

Participation and feedback from the trial offices will be through CWU Divisional Representatives, Delivery Directors, DSMs, DOMs, CWU Representatives and drivers on a monthly basis. Discussions with these individuals will take place prior to the commencement of the trial.

 

The trials are due to commence on the 16th November 2015, and will be jointly assessed by Royal Mail and CWU at the end of a 3 month period. Further roll out will only take place following the assessment and through agreement.

 

Any enquiries to Bob Gibson’s Office, quoting reference 300.02

Email address: outdoorsecretary@cwu.org

 

 

Yours sincerely

 
 

Bob Gibson

CWU Assistant Secretary – Outdoor