CWU Women’s Conference – Tuesday 21st November 2017

The CWU Women’s Conference will be held on Tuesday 21st November in the Conference Hall at City Hall, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TR.

Creche Facilities/Prayer Rooms/Seating

In order that we can cater for any delegate(s) with special needs such as seating, it is

important that you advise us in writing of the name of the delegate(s) and the particular requirement by return but no later than Tuesday 31st October 2017.

Crèche facilities will be available to delegates during the Conference and Branches should advise the SDGS Department in writing, by return, but no later than Tuesday 31st October 2017 if they require the use of this facility. Please ensure that the names and ages of the children, together with an appropriate address for sending the crèche form to for completion are included in this advice. It will not be possible to provide on the spot facilities to those delegates who have not informed us in advance.

Motions

Each Branch is entitled to submit one motion for consideration to be included on the agenda of the Conference. Motions should be submitted electronically to conferences@cwu.org using the template attached. Branches who do not have this facility may request paper motion forms by contacting Angela Niven on 020 8971 7256.

The Women’s Advisory Committee are entitled to submit up to three motions to the conference standing in their name.

Each Regional Women’s Committee are entitled to submit one motion to the Women’s Equality Conference.

Each Regional Equality Committee are entitled to submit one motion to the Women’s conference.

Branches and the Advisory Committee are reminded that the Standing Orders Committee will not alter or amend any of the motions submitted therefore it is important that motions are checked before they are submitted.

Motion forms must be returned by midnight on Tuesday 31st October 2017.   All sections of the form must be completed.

As with previous Equality Conferences, the agenda will be structured in such a way as to maximise debate and participation by delegates. There will be two sections to the agenda, one for motions which are eligible for consideration for submission to General Conference, and one for motions that in the view of the Standing Orders Committee would not be admissible to the General Conference agenda.

Branches will be aware that with the carriage of Composite Rule Amendment 126 at General Conference 2013, the Women’s Conference has the entitlement under the rules of the union to submit two motions to stand in the name of the conference to General Conference and one motion to the Postal Group and Telecoms Industry Conferences. It is therefore important that if branches wish their motions to be considered for General Conference they must contain policy that is capable of being discharged by the NEC, as opposed to either of the Industrial Executives.

As with previous Equality Conferences, the motions for submission to the General Conference, Postal Group and Telecoms Industry agenda will be decided from amongst those motions adopted at the Conference. A ballot to select the motions will be held at the Conference and further information will be contained within the conference standing orders.

Please note that all correspondence must be sent to conferences@cwu.org and no other personal email address.

Any enquiries regarding this LTB should be addressed to Angela Niven either by post to head office or by email to conferences@cwu.org

 

Yours sincerely,

 

A P Kearns

Senior Deputy General Secretary

17LTB495 – Womens Conference

Womens Motion Form 2017

Womens Guidance 2017

 

Work Place Coach Agreement

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

Over the past couple of months the Outdoor Department has received numerous enquiries from Branches along with examples of where Royal Mail managers in some localities are attempting to give Workplace Coaches (WPC) extra tasks to perform; tasks that have not been agreed and are outside of those that are agreed and contained within the relevant National Agreement.

 

In receiving these examples from Branches we have contacted the senior relevant National management within Royal Mail and expressed our concern and dissatisfaction to them, also along with the evidence we have received from different parts of the country which has clearly demonstrated that local Royal Mail management have attempted to pass on un-agreed and in some cases managerial tasks for WPC’s to perform.

 

Royal Mail senior management in these instances has acted upon this information and has ensured that these un-agreed tasks have been removed. Unfortunately following this approach by ourselves at a National level, we have found ourselves once again having to contact Royal Mail, again presenting them with further evidence that un-agreed tasks were still being given to WPC’s, whilst also reiterating our concern and anger at this.

 

Accordingly therefore, we feel that it is necessary to issue our own advice along with recirculating the current National Workplace Coach agreement.  We would therefore request that Branches provide their local representatives with the National agreement and also ensure that any discussions that take place between themselves and the office Workplace Coach/s fully ensures that the tasks they are carrying out are those that are agreed and in line with the National agreement, and contained within the WPC training materials that have also been discussed and agreed nationally. However if this is not the case and the National agreement is not being adhered to, can Branches please ensure that these are progressed through the IR framework.

 

Any queries to the content of the above please contact the Outdoor Department reference 230, email address: outdoorsecretary@cwu.org.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Mark Baulch                                    

CWU Assistant Secretary Outdoor

LTB 487.17 – Work Place Coach Agreement

14LTB496a

National Agreement Workplace Coach Programme for Delivery and Collection 2014

Appendix 1 Workplace Coach Delivery and Collection Guide 

What is Fibromyalgia – Factsheet

 

Please find attached a new Fibromyalgia Factsheet. This can also be found on the CWU website under Help & Support, Disability and Health.

Any enquiries regarding this LTB should be referred to the Equal Opportunities Department.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Linda Roy

Assistant Secretary

LTB 491 – What is Fibromyalgia – Factsheet

What is Fibromyalgia

Royal Mail Group – Road Safety Communication Campaign September 2017 – Driver Health Issues – Driver Fatigue/Driving Tired/Driving Drowsy – Stress – Eye Health/Eye Tests and Fitness to Drive:

To: All Branches

Dear Colleagues,

Introduction:

During September, commencing on Monday 11 September, Royal Mail Group will be launching the latest Road Safety Communications Campaign, focusing on ‘Driver Health Issues – Driver Fatigue/Driving Tired/Driving Drowsy – Stress – Eye Health/Eye Tests and Fitness to Drive:

The September 2017 Road Safety Campaign objectives are:-

• To highlight these important road and driver health and safety issues of driver fatigue, driving tired and drowsy, stress, eye health and eye tests and fitness to drive.

• To raise awareness and encourage, coach and support drivers to adopt safe driving habits.

• To observe vehicles and drivers and point out learning opportunities.

• To discuss with drivers the safe driving campaign, the risk of driving tired or stressed,
poor driver health and eye health and the importance of highlighting any concerns to
their GP, line manager or seeking advice from their CWU Rep.

• Area Safety Reps to focus on the subject matter, carry out safety spot checks and
inspections and ensure that they record their Safety Inspections using the agreed reporting processes.
RoSPA and BRAKE advise as follows:-

• Driver fatigue – This is a serious problem resulting in many thousands of road
collisions each year. Research shows that driver fatigue may be a contributory factor in
up to 20% of road collisions and up to one quarter of fatal and serious accidents.

• Eye sight Tests – it is estimated that 2,900 casualties are caused by poor driver vision
each year.

• Fitness to Drive –Illness or disability, mental or physical was reported as a
contributory factor in 112 reported fatal road accidents, 493 reported serious road accidents, and 2,323 reported road accidents in total last year. These accidents resulted in 121 people being killed, 619 being seriously injured and 3,511 road casualties in total.
ASR Involvement and Activities:-

 

ASR’s will be fully involved and consulted on this joint Road Safety Communications Campaign.

• By carrying out the following activities during this Road Safety Campaign, ASRs and WSRs you can help to raise awareness and the profile of Road Safety and keep our drivers/members safe.

• ASR’s will be fully involved and consulted on this joint Road Safety Campaign.
Agree with your Operational Managers, which units you will jointly support during this Road Safety Campaign, and:

1 Assist the Front Line Manager in delivering joint WTLL’s and sharing the posters and information.

2 Carry out Safety Inspections and include the following:-

Speak to Driver Members and Use the communication materials to talk about driver health.

Remind Drivers that it’s vitally important that they should always:

• Try to ensure they are well rested and feeling fit and healthy before driving.

• Not take medication which advises against driving before starting long journeys.

• Make sure they take their rest breaks.

• Take extra care when driving at night, especially between 2am and 6am and when
driving between 2pm and 4pm (especially after having eaten a significant meal).

• Avoid drinking any alcohol and remember the morning after effect.

• If feeling sleepy or drowsy during a journey, take a break, grab a coffee and if need be
take a short nap.

• Have regular eye tests or arrange a test if they’ve noticed any problems with their eye
sight, (do the self-test of reading a number plate from 20 metres).

• If they have stress issues, request a stress risk assessment and request ‘feeling first
class’ support.

• Make sure they are aware of health conditions that may impair their driving and if
unsure consult their GP.

• If they take any medication that may be affecting their ability to drive, speak to their
GP.

• If they have a sleep disorder which may put them at higher risk, discuss it with their
GP.
Ask Front Line Managers:

• What activities have they completed for the driver health campaign?

• Have they delivered the WTLL to all employees?

• Have they received and displayed the posters?
ASR Safety Inspections:
Ensure that you record your Safety Inspections using the agreed reporting processes.

Attachments:

•
2 Posters being sent out to all offices and available to print off on the intranet.

•  WTLL session.

• ASR Activity Plan.

The attached information will all be communicated out by 11 September. The Posters will be sent out to all units to support the campaign and should be displayed on notice boards. Further copies can be printed from the RSW intranet site. There will also be a link to several videos on the RSW intranet site also, to help get the messages across to the workforce and to support delivering WTLL sessions.

The campaign item will be on RMTV on 11 September and there will also be references made to the campaign on Workplace Plasma screens next week.

Royal Mail Group Road Safety Team welcome CWU/HQ and CWU ASR/WSR support. Thank you for your support.

Yours sincerely

 

Dave Joyce

National Health, Safety & Environment Officer

17LTB488 Royal Mail Group – Road Safety Communication Campaign September 2017

Driver Health Poster 1

Driver Health Poster 2

RS Campaign Sept 2017 – Driver Health – ASR activity plan

WTLL – Driver Health – September 2017 Draft v4