ELECTION OF NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE POSITIONS – 2016
CWU Youth Committee

Further to LTB 505/16 dated 30th August 2016, at the close of nominations the following have
been received:
 
CWU YOUTH COMMITTEE – POSTAL CONSTITUENCY
EASTERN REGION
 
BALLOT REQUIRED
Matthew Bellamy
Eastern No 5
 
Laura Snell
Eastern No 4
 
 
MIDLAND REGION
Jimi Brown
South Midlands Postal
*ELECTED
 
NORTH EAST REGION
No Nominations Received
 
NORTH WEST REGION
Elli Long
Greater Mersey & S.W Lancs
*ELECTED
 
NORTHERN IRELAND REGION
Colm McAuley
Northern Ireland Combined
*ELECTED
 
SCOTLAND REGION
Scott Hartles
Scotland No 2
*ELECTED
 
SOUTH EAST REGION
Becca Hufton
Kent Invicta
*ELECTED
 
SOUTH WEST REGION
 
BALLOT REQUIRED
Michael Goozee
Wessex South Central
 
William Hunt
Gloucestershire Amal
 
 
WALES REGION
No Nominations Received
 
LONDON REGION
No Nominations Received
 
CWU YOUTH COMMITTEE – TELECOM & FINANCIAL SERVICES CONSTITUENCY
EASTERN REGION
Jamie George
Central Counties & Thames Valley
*ELECTED
 
MIDLAND REGION
 
BALLOT REQUIRED
Daniel Coles
East Midlands, Capital, Lincolnshire & South Yorks, Mid Wales The Marches & North Staffs, Portsmouth IOW & West Sussex, Scotland No 1, Somerset, Devon & Cornwall
 
Jaime Monsma
Midland No 1
 
 
NORTH EAST REGION
Aaron Winter
Lincolnshire & South Yorks, Capital, East Midlands, Mid Wales The Marches & North Staffs, Portsmouth IOW & West Sussex, Scotland No 1, Somerset, Devon & Cornwall
*ELECTED
 
NORTH WEST REGION
No Nominations Received
 
NORTHERN IRELAND REGION
Fiona Curtis
Northern Ireland Telecom, Lincolnshire & South Yorks, Somerset Devon & Cornwall, Scotland No 1, Mid Wales, Marches & North Staffs
*ELECTED
 
SCOTLAND REGION
No Nominations Received
 
SOUTH EAST REGION
Georgina Ford
Portsmouth IOW & West Sussex, Capital, East Midlands, Lincolnshire & South Yorks, Mid Wales The Marches & North Staffs, Scotland No 1, Somerset, Devon & Cornwall
*ELECTED
 
SOUTH WEST REGION
Adam Gibbins
Somerset, Devon & Cornwall, Capital, East Midlands, Lincolnshire & South Yorks, Mid Wales The Marches & North Staffs, Portsmouth IOW & West Sussex, Scotland No 1
*ELECTED
 
WALES REGION
Jake Fear
South Wales, Capital, East Midlands, Lincolnshire & South Yorks, Mid Wales The Marches & North Staffs, Portsmouth IOW & West Sussex, Scotland No 1, Somerset, Devon & Cornwall
*ELECTED
 
LONDON REGION
 
BALLOT REQUIRED
Christopher Gadeke
Capital, East Midlands, Lincolnshire & South Yorks, Mid Wales The Marches & North Staffs, Portsmouth IOW & West Sussex, Scotland No 1, Somerset, Devon & Cornwall
 
William Murray
Greater London Combined
 
The ballot timetable is as follows:
Despatch ballot papers: 16th September 2016
Ballot closes: 30th September 2016 (14:00)
Any enquiries regarding this Letter to Branches should be addressed to the Senior Deputy General Secretary’s Department on telephone number 020 8971 7237, or email address sdgs@cwu.org.
Yours sincerely,
 
TONY KEARNS
SENIOR DEPUTY GENERAL SECRETARY
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LTB 551/16 – Election of National Representative Positions – CWU Youth Committee 2016

WTRM Sessions
This LTB follows previous information circulated to Branches regarding the Welcome to Royal Mail events.
Against a backdrop of falling membership, it is clearly of vital importance that the Union and its Branches are in a position to provide adequate and trained resource to attend the Welcome to Royal Mail events and ensure that we maximise the number of new entrants we recruit into the CWU, prior to them being dispersed to their respective units. However, it’s clear that problems have been encountered meeting this commitment which, on occasions, has resulted in the Union losing the crucial opportunity we have to recruit new members from the outset of their employment.
Branches and Representatives will recognise the importance of securing new members as soon as they enter the business which helps to strengthen our workplace organisation and provide the Union with greater long term stability. As part of the ongoing activity around WTRM (and following an in-depth discussion at the last meeting of the Postal Executive) immediate action has been taken to ensure that the Union and its Branches are in a stronger position to make the best use of the time we have allotted under the current national agreement to introduce and recruit new members to the Union. We also need to recognise that, in many instances, this will be their first encounter with a Trade Union and the concept of organised labour in the workplace – so we need to make these induction sessions count.
In view of the limited success of the initial WTRM activity (and despite the best efforts of Branches and colleagues who support these recruitment efforts) a number of meetings have been held with the business aimed at reviewing the structure and accessibility to the WTRM sessions and to maximise the opportunity for the CWU to attend and recruit new entrants.
The revised process will include timely notification of the WTRM sessions and their locations. This will ensure that Representatives are able to prepare in advance of the meeting with new entrants, and focus on the areas associated with a particular workplace or function (i.e. local workplace organisation, name of Rep(s), number of members on site, Branch details etc). It has also been agreed to change the 1 hour time slot for the CWU to commence at 11am and conclude no later than 12pm.
We can also confirm that additional locations have now been added to the original WTRM sites so there are now 30 in total (listed below):
Aberdeen Mail Centre
Battersea DO
Belfast Delivery Office
Carlisle Mail Centre
Edinburgh Delivery Office
Glasgow Mail Centre
Leeds Mail Centre
Manchester Mail Centre
Preston Mail Centre
HR Service Centre
Tyneside Mail Centre
Croydon Mail Centre
Tonbridge Mail Centre
Norwich Mail Centre
Northampton East Delivery Office
Peterborough Mail Centre
Ilford Delivery Office
Leicester Delivery Office
Chelmsford Mail Centre
Greenford Mail Centre
North West Midlands Mail Centre
Bristol Mail Centre
Shirley Delivery Office
Plymouth Mail Centre
Wheatstone House
Birmingham Mail Centre
Chester Delivery Office
Swansea Mail Centre
Warrington Mail Centre
Cardiff Mail Centre
 
Branches and Representatives will be aware that the Postal Department, in consultation with the Senior Organiser and the wider Organising team have provided information to assist recruitment activity at WTRM sessions and have produced handouts, leaflets and booklets which detail the benefits of Union membership. This information is supported by a specially commissioned DVD to be shown to new entrants that focuses on the Union’s positive role in the workplace and other benefits of membership.
Notwithstanding the above, the Postal Executive believe it would also be appropriate to provide additional support to help deliver the Union’s message at the WTRM sessions and, in doing so, hopefully increase the number of new entrants who take up Union membership. Branches and Representatives will recognise the importance of having an agreement that gives the Union access to all new RM employees and provides us with a valuable opportunity to showcase the CWU and the benefits of Union membership.
As a result, a recruitment workshop has been designed to up-skill and support those Representatives who undertake recruitment activity on behalf of their Branch or workplace. This is an ideal opportunity for existing Representatives to expand their role and develop their approach in speaking to an audience, as well as drawing on their own personal experiences of the CWU and learn to recruit new entrants to the Union in a classroom environment.
The workshops are open to all CWU Representatives currently employed in a Royal Mail business unit or function and, in particular, those who have a genuine interest in growing the Union’s membership and being the face of the CWU at the WTRM sessions in your location.
Any Representative who is interested in participating in this workshop should contact Lynn Browne at LBrowne@cwu.org (Mbl: 07753 776364)no later than 30th September. We would encourage a range of applicants that reflect the diversity of the Union’s wider membership. 
The workshops commence at 11.00 and are scheduled to conclude by 15.00. They will be delivered by the Postal Field Organisers and arranged on a regional basis to maximise the opportunity for colleagues to attend. The details of the current venues are listed below.
North East – Regional Office, 4th October

Scotland – Glasgow and District Branch Office, 4th October

Midlands – Birmingham Branch Office, 11th October

Wales – Gwent Amal Branch Office, 4th October

Eastern – CWUHQ, 4th October

South East – CWUHQ, 18th October

South West – Bristol Branch Office, 4th October

South West – Exeter Branch Office, 11th October

North West – Greater Manchester Branch Office, 11th October

Northern Ireland – CWU Office Belfast, 4th October

London – London Regional Office, 11th October

 
Yours sincerely
 
Terry Pullinger

Deputy General Secretary (Postal)
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LTB 550/16 – WTRM Sessions

‘Public Health England’ and ‘The Work Foundation’ have collaborated and published a very useful set or series of 12 health and work ‘infographics’ intended to help raise awareness and understanding of the relationship between health and work. Although it is Public Health England who have produced them, most of the statistics are UK ones. It is encouraging to see that they have included ‘presenteeism’ in several places, and it seems that it costs the economy £30 billion.
‘Public Health England’ and ‘The Work Foundation’ state that these infographics are intended to help public health practitioners, local authorities and policy makers to make the case and inform planning on embedding health, work and worklessness within and across these issues.
The 12 infographics are as follows:
Spotlight on mental health

Cost of ill health

Health of the working age population

Health of UK employees

Spotlight on musculoskeletal conditions (MSK)

Managing health at work for employers

Spotlight on small medium enterprises (SME)

Unemployment and economic inactivity

Welfare

The local picture

Supporting older workers with health problems

Young people and health at work

[NOTE: An ‘infographic’ is a visual representation of information or data in a graphic format designed to make the data easily understandable at a glance. “A good infographic is worth a thousand words”]
The importance of health and work
The Health and Work infographics summarise important data to provide a snapshot of the health and work landscape at publication date. They are intended to enable national and local stakeholders to understand, make the case for, and take action on addressing health, work and worklessness.
Employment is a primary determinant of health, impacting both directly and indirectly on the individual, their families and communities. Unemployment is associated with an increased risk of mortality and morbidity, including limiting illness, cardiovascular disease, poor mental health, suicide and health-damaging behaviours. 74% of adults are in employment, on average spending a third of their waking hours in the workplace.
Evidence shows that a good working environment is good for health, and that a bad working environment (characterised by low levels of job control and organisational fairness, and a high effort-reward imbalance) may contribute to poor health. There is also evidence to show that healthier, active and engaged employees are more productive, have lower levels of sickness absence and presenteeism, creating a business imperative to take action as well as a public health one. Workplaces are a key setting for engaging adults in activities to improve their health and wellbeing to improve the health of the nation, and business productivity.
This is an important public health issue at both local and national level. It is highlighted in the NHS 5 Year Forward View and many local health and wellbeing strategies, devolution plans and NHS sustainability and transformation plans.
The infographics are intended to inform the local and national stakeholders. In particular for public health practitioners, local authorities and policy makers to make the case and inform planning on embedding health, work and worklessness within and across these issues.
Attachments:
The 12 Infographics are attached as a pdf file.
The set of Infographics can also be accessed via the following link:-
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/552695/
Yours sincerely
Dave Joyce

National Health, Safety & Environment Officer
 
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Attachment 1 – LTB547/16 Health and Work ‘Infographics’ (UK Information & Statistics)

Attachment 2 – Health and Work Infographic1.pdf

As we come to the end of the September Quarterly Road Safety Week (RSW), this is to remind ASRs that the CWU fully supports the week which is based on full CWU ASR involvement, participation and support.
ASRs were asked to follow the ASR activity guide and schedule for the week.
During Road Safety Week ASRs are asked to focus their daily Workplace Safety Inspections on a number of Units, preferably high impacting units and liaise with line managers to agree which high impacting units should be focused on and visited/inspected during the September Road Safety Week (RSW).
ASR activities are:-
Ask Drivers:
Have they seen and understood the Poster issued for this Road Safety Week?

Have they received the WTLL briefing on severe weather driving?

Have they completed their vehicle checks with the manager?

Do they know how to access supply of torches, de-icer, anti-freeze, screen wash, windscreen scrapers in their vehicles?

Has the Manager spoken to them about the Trimble telemetry unit scores and how to improve driving behaviours? (as per RM/Outdoor Department agreement but only where they’ve been rolled out, where appropriate and where fitted etc – you don’t need to do anything more on Trimble at this stage).

Additionally, ask front line managers:
What Road Safety Week activities have they completed so far?

Have they delivered the WTLL to staff for severe weather driving?

How many severe weather related accidents did the unit have last winter?

Can they evidence completion of vehicle checks?

Has a Yard Risk Assessment been completed as per Severe Weather prep list and SHE Calendar task?

Have they coached the drivers on safe driving styles – e.g. avoid harsh braking, avoid harsh acceleration or turning?

Have they observed vehicles manoeuvring in yard?

Are vehicles in good repair, clean and tidy?

Are they safely parked?

Are condition of lighting, walkways & yard surfaces in good repair?

Finally ASRs should:-
Ensure they’ve recorded their Safety daily Inspections using the agreed process and forms.

Collate and summarise the findings and forward it to the Area, Sector and Plant Managers in the area to provide feedback on the Road Safety Week Activities.

Would ASRs please ensure all their inspection visit reports are completed and submitted as above and can I thank all ASRs and WSRs for their support. 
Finally, the important Safety Issues listed above are not just for Road Safety Week alone! They need to be monitored and be part of Safety Inspections and spot checks on a regular periodic basis, flagging up all shortcomings asap. 
Road Safety Week provides a high profile special focus on these important Road, Driver and Vehicle Safety matters.
ASRs may wish to further discuss the above with the local SHE Team Managers and Advisors and at Health and Safety Joint Committees to suggest some further ongoing joint attention and initiatives to concentrate attention to issues highlighted during the week.
Yours sincerely
Dave Joyce

National Health, Safety & Environment Officer
 
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Attachment 1 – LTB545 RMG Quarterly Road Safety Week, 12th—18th September Focus on Severe Weather Driving – CWU ASR Activities:

As the 2016 National Organ Donation Week has now ended, this Letter to Branches is to confirm the actions taken during the campaign week nationally and to remind all CWU Reps to ‘sign-up’ now to the Organ Donor Register and get every other CWU Rep in your Branch signed up as well as getting as many members to do likewise – Thanks.

Motion 85 was carried at CWU Conference in 2011 and the CWU has been supporting Organ Donation Week ever since.

On Monday of the campaign week an Article launching Organ Donation Week appeared on the front page of the CWU Website.

Two Letters to CWU Branches and Regions were issued, one in the run up to the week and one during the week, distributing materials and resources to our Branches, Regions, Officers and Reps across the UK.

All CWU Reps have been challenged to sign up to be an organ donor/blood donor and then get other Reps and members to sign up.

The CWU Equal Opportunities Department supported the campaign and work on increasing awareness of organ donation amongst our Black and Asian members.

At the 2016 TUC Congress the CWU delegation supported Motion 47 on the subject of Organ Donation which calls for the TUC and Trade Unions to Campaign to increase the number of organ donors. The CWU Health, Safety & Environment Department briefed our Delegation and provided information.

After speaking to both main employers, both Royal Mail and British Telecom issued communications supporting Organ Donation Week and Royal Mail arranged for a special postmark to be used on all letters during the campaign week, highlighting the campaign and directing people to the NHSBT Website.

CWU and NHSBT signed a formal ‘partnership’ campaign pledge.

The CWU annually campaigns to raise awareness and has promoted organ and blood donation to the members since a decision at CWU annual conference in 2011. This is done via Letters to Branches, the CWU ‘Voice’ magazine and via the CWU Website.
The CWU also works jointly with employers to run joint health awareness campaigns, one of which is organ and blood donation.
The CWU’s Health and Safety Department working with the Equal Opportunities Department has spread the message of donation across the Union, seeking to promote blood and organ donation amongst its Black and Asian members where only 1.4% of those on the Organ Donation Register are from these communities.
This CWU/NHSBT partnership is about raising awareness of the importance of blood and organ donation amongst our Branches and membership and we will continue to campaign alongside NHSBT and other organisations to achieve this. We have a diverse membership and we want our members to step forward and help save the lives of others by becoming blood and organ donors.
I hope all CWU Branches and CWU Reps have taken this campaign seriously and ‘signed-up’ as an Organ Donor. We are relying on your support in this.
Claire Dolling Senior Partnership Development Officer of the NHS Blood and Transplant organisation has congratulated the CWU on the Union’s support for the 2016 Campaign and welcomed the Union as a formal Campaign supporter and ‘Partner’. She said that the NHS Blood and Transplant organisation is pleased to be working with the Communications Workers Union, one of the UK’s major Trade Unions that takes the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of its large membership and families very seriously and places such matters high on the agenda. NHSBT is therefore launching this new formal partnership this year (2016), making the CWU the first Trade Union to agree such an initiative with NHSBT.
Yours sincerely
Dave Joyce

National Health, Safety & Environment Officer
 
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Attachment 1 – LTB544/16 CWU – National Organ Donation Week 2016 Conclusion:

HSE Safe Coupling and Uncoupling Guide (Large Goods Vehicles & Trailers):
To: All Branches
Dear Colleagues,
The HSE in conjunction with the Freight Transport Association (FTA) Road Haulage Association (RHA), Institute of Road Transport Engineers (IRTE) and others published new guidance on the safe coupling, uncoupling and parking of commercial vehicles and trailers.
The ‘Safe coupling and uncoupling guide’ has been developed by the HSE along with Road Transport Industry bodies and Unions from the HSE’s Joint Transportation and Logistics Forum, as a ‘good practice guide’ with the aim of reducing the likelihood of runaway or rollaway incidents. Tragically, each year there are a number of fatalities or serious injuries due to vehicle runaways or trailer rollaways. The cause is often due to the individual in charge mistakenly believing that all brakes are engaged when they are not. This should not happen if simple procedures are followed.
This new guidance has been produced by a working group made up of members of the Transportation and Logistics Forum, which is Chaired by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). It represents industry best practice and is a must-read for drivers, users of large goods vehicles, managers, self-employed drivers and driver training bodies to check and, if necessary, improve their knowledge of the safe procedures.
Every year people are killed or seriously injured and property is damaged as a result of vehicle runaway or trailer rollaway situations. These are often the result of drivers not following safe procedures and those in control of sites not having suitable monitoring arrangements in place to ensure safe procedures are followed. Research conducted by the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) suggests many of these events go unreported.
Under health and safety legislation employers have a responsibility to provide and maintain safe systems of work to ensure the health and safety of both those at work and those who may be affected by their activities such as members of the public.
Employers should ensure there are safe systems of work in place for coupling and uncoupling vehicle combinations and that these are understood by those carrying out the activity. There should also be effective arrangements in place to ensure these systems are being followed. Drivers, including the self-employed, have a responsibility for both their own health and safety and that of other people who could be affected by their actions.
This new guide is intended to assist employers, those who control sites where coupling and uncoupling is undertaken by users of large goods vehicles, managers, self-employed drivers and driver training bodies. It has been developed by industry as a good practice guide with the aim of reducing the likelihood of a runaway or rollaway incident.
The guide focuses on the procedures for the safe coupling and uncoupling and parking of standard semitrailers but there is also information on procedures for close coupled semi-trailers, centre axle and turntable drawbar trailers. These are detailed in the appendices.
In addition to these procedures, the guide also contains supplementary safety guidance and advice that should be observed and a section concerning good parking practice.
NOTE: For the purposes of this guide the tractor unit/prime mover is referred to as a truck and the trailer unit is referred to as a trailer. In addition, a runaway is defined as a situation where a truck or truck and trailer combination moves in an uncontrolled manner during coupling/uncoupling. A rollaway is defined as a situation where a trailer moves in an uncontrolled manner independent of the truck.
A Copy of the Guide is attached.
Yours sincerely
Dave Joyce

National Health, Safety & Environment Officer
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Attachment 1 – LTB542/16 HSE Safe Coupling and Uncoupling Guide (Large Goods Vehicles & Trailers)

Attachment 2 – Safe Coupling and Uncoupling PDF

ONLINE REGISTRATION – CWU EQUALITY CONFERENCES 2016
Branches are reminded that the following conferences will be taking place at the Mercure Leicester The Grand Hotel, Granby Street, Leicester LE1 6ES on the following dates:
Black Workers Conference Tuesday 11th October 2016

Disability Conference Wednesday 12th October 2016

Women’s Conference Tuesday 8th November 2016

LGBT Conference Wednesday 9th November 2016Branches are entitled to two delegates to each of these Conferences and there is no restriction on the number of observers that can attend. All delegates and observers have to be registered using the CWU online registration process. The link to apply for the conferences is as follows: https://conference.cwu.org

Any enquiries regarding this LTB should be addressed to Angela Niven either by post to head office or by email to eventsregistration@cwu.org
Yours sincerely
 
Tony Kearns 

Senior Deputy General Secretary
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LTB 540/16 – ONLINE REGISTRATION – CWU EQUALITY CONFERENCES 2016

PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY MAJOR NATIONAL
DEMONSTRATION
1ST/2ND OCTOBER 2016 – BIRMINGHAM
This year the Tory Party will be holding their Annual Conference in Birmingham in October 2016. In response an ‘Unwelcome the Tory Conference to Birmingham’ campaign was launched in May. 
The People’s Assembly are hosting a Counter Conference on Saturday 1st October. Dave Ward, General Secretary will be attending and speaking at the Conference. They have arranged national and local speakers, entertainment, workshops etc and will tackle the main themes that the Tory Conference will be debating. 
People’s Conference – Our Alternative to Austerity
Saturday 1st October, 10:30am – 5pm Birmingham Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B3 3DQ
Key Themes / Sessions include:
Nationalisation vs Privatisation

Democracy: In Parliament, In Workplaces, In Communities

The Benefits of Immigration

Communities Abandoned: What Should Local Government Provide? (with Councillors Against Austerity)

Who Have Cuts Really Benefited?

War, Weapons & Western Intervention

The People’s Assembly aim to repeat some of the successes of the protests last year in Manchester. They will be helping build the demonstration on Sunday 2nd October which has been called by the People’s Assembly and the Midlands TUC. 
National Demonstration | 2nd October
Tories Out – Austerity Has Failed
Assemble: 11:30am, Victoria Square, Birmingham
On the eve of the Conservative Party conference and in the theatre next door to the conference centre, #JC4PM is putting on an inspiring, entertaining and thought-provoking night in support of Jeremy Corbyn. Dave Ward will be speaking at this event, further details can be found at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jc4pm-at-the-tory-conference-tickets-27383745520 
We would also encourage branches to affiliate to the People’s Assembly. Further information is available at http://www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk  
For any enquiries on content of the above LTB538/16 please contact Kate Hudson, Midlands Regional Secretary at midlandregion@cwu.org.
Yours sincerely
 
Dave Ward

General Secretary
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Attachment 1: LTB 538/16 – People’s Assembly National Demonstration

Trials on Delivery Initiatives – Trial 1 Glympse Data Validation Trial
 
Dear Colleagues,
Branches will be aware of the ongoing discussions with Royal Mail and the department regarding the future use and design of the PDA and how this interacts with Consumers in the ability to request alternative delivery options during the course of the delivery of the products.
As such we were invited to a meeting where the general concepts of three initiatives were outlined and presented. Accordingly we said to the company that we would require separate Terms of Reference for all three initiatives.
As a result we have now concluded the TOR’s, which have been endorsed by the Postal Executive in order to progress jointly an agreed trial, one of which is the Glympse Data Validation trial.
Essentially, the trial is a forerunner to test and develop the PDA functionality for any potential future roll out nationally. The trial will provide customers with visibility of their parcel delivery during the final mile. The trial scope is as follows:
Via the Glympse platform, customer (recipient) will be able to access a Royal Mail-branded customer portal providing an estimated delivery window for Tracked products based on live, real-time information.

A website will provide customers with a time slot, indicating when their parcel is likely to arrive and a map displaying the item’s approximate location.

Customers will only be able to view details of their own parcels and only on the day of delivery.

Once their delivery has been made, they will not be able to view the location of the vehicle/post person that made the delivery.

The study will take place at Manchester South East and Cardiff North Delivery Offices.The trial will run from 17th October-23rd December 2016 inclusive. The criteria for involvement of our reps at every level from local, Area, divisional and national is contained within the TOR (attached) in addition to national involvement and review upon completion of the trial. Participation in the trial is voluntary for individuals in the unit. If the trial outcomes are successful, it is envisaged that Royal Mail will look to expand this service to the rest of the country utilising new PDAs, rather than two separate pieces of equipment (PDAs would be upgraded to allow this functionality). As the TOR makes clear, this aspect will be subject to further joint discussion and agreement at National level.Full CWU involvement along with individual protections in terms of any information generated not being used for any conduct against individuals or work study basis is also fully covered off in the attached TOR, along with protections for any loss or damage occurring to these android devices through the course of normal working procedures.

Any enquires please contact the Outdoor Department quoting reference 540
Email address: outdoorsecretary@cwu.org
Yours Sincerely,
 
Mick Kavanagh

Acting Assistant Secretary
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LTB 525/16 – Trials on Delivery Initiatives – Trial 1 Glympse Data Validation Trial

Trials on Delivery Initiatives Trial 1 Glympse Data Validation Trial Terms of Reference