I fully support posties being entitled to an inline with inflation pay rise but they simply need to accept that the business does need to change and modernise and they need to stop listening to the ideological rhetoric from the self serving union who are NOT acting in the best interests of their members at all.
The CWU wants RM to remain a bloated and inefficient entity with outdated and unnecessary practices such as early starts and 6 day letters deliveries, simply because the union doesn't want to see a reduction in the workforce and therefore a reduction in its income from membership subs.
Plenty of posties would welcome the opportunity for being offered redundancy as a result of a more streamlined RM, which could mainly be achieved by reducing the 6 day letters USO... something the union is vehemently opposing.
The union has a history of not acting in the best interests of it's members... for instance it has had a long standing opposition to overtime being paid at an enhanced rate and would rather RM simply take on yet more new staff, simply because the union wants to get more membership subs from more members rather than wanting to see its existing members get paid a decent rate for doing overtime.
In order for the business to remain viable and compete in the parcels market it is essential that it moves to later start times and its also essential that the letters side of the business is made more cost effective, which can be achieved by reducing letter deliveries to fewer than the current 6 days a week.
The simple fact is if the self serving union were to somehow achieve all their demands and successfully oppose all RM's proposed changes then in very a short space of time RM would effectively go bust or get taken over and broken up... either way it would be a much worse outcome for the employees.