MTSF – SPDOs

Dear Colleagues, 

Branches will recall that the department have been dealing with a National Point of Principle in relation to application of the MTSF in the SPDO closure and relocation process.

This dates back to late 2017 and at the time we wrote to all the affected Branches requesting information and travel times etc.

Having collated this information we presented a claim to Royal Mail in mid-2018, for some of our members who we believe had been denied the £800 travelling time money, and the £150 relocation money.

We then went into a series of protracted negotiation/discussions with Royal Mail who took the opportunity to attempt to rewrite parts of the MTSF Agreement which has been in place for the best part of twenty years.

We finally reached an agreement with Royal Mail with the attached Joint Statement. This was put to the Postal Executive at its meeting in July which we are now communicating via this LTB.

We will now embark on an exercise to verify the data collected previously and look to process payment for those individual members originally affected.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank those Branches who participated in the original data gathering exercise.

Any queries to the content of the above please contact the PTCS Department, reference 020, email address: khawkins@cwu.org.

Yours sincerely,

Ray Ellis

CWU Assistant Secretary

LTB 526.19 – MTSF – SPDOs

Joint Statement on Excess Travel Expenses and the SPDO Rationalisation Programme

Four Pillars – Honouring our Agreement: Industrial Action Ballot Timetable

Further to LTB 510/19 the Postal Executive, when it formally met yesterday, took the opportunity to consider the feedback received from Branches/Representatives, Senior Field Officials and PE members from the numerous Branch/Gate meetings that have taken place thus far across the UK following the announcement of the Industrial Action Ballot on the 22nd August 2019.

Based on the clear commitment and responsibility of the whole of this Union to unite and deliver our biggest YES VOTE ever, we have listened to concerns expressed regarding the increasing number of members taking annual leave later in the year i.e. late September/early October who would potentially lose the opportunity to vote.

Against that backdrop, the Postal Executive have agreed to extend the closing date of the Industrial Action Ballot by one week to the 15th October 2019.

For absolute clarity this decision does not change the start date for the ballot which will still be the 24th September 2019 and all Branch, Divisional & Regional activity should remain focused on maximising immediate membership participation and ballot paper returns from that date.

In taking this decision, the Postal Executive believe the extended timetable will maximise the opportunity for as many of our members as possible to cast their vote and in doing so achieve the highest turnout in support of the Union.

The revised timetable is reproduced below:

Membership Verification:    to commence and be completed by 3rd
September 2019

Issue Industrial Action Notice to Ballot:  17th September 2019

Ballot Opens:      24th September 2019

Ballot Closes:      15th October 2019

Ballot Result:      15th October 2019

Any enquiries in relation to the content of this LTB should be addressed to the DGS(P) Department.

Yours sincerely,

Terry Pullinger
Deputy General Secretary (Postal)

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