Motion 159 – Accepted

Conference instructs the Postal Executive to strenuously pursue the existing Conference policy to secure an agreement to revert Easter Saturday to a non-service day. 

The Postal Executive is instructed to immediately commence negotiations with Royal Mail and by association the regulator to amend the business licence to allow for the provision of a non service day on this day.

 Upon realisation, this revised Easter attendance pattern would give our members more quality time at home with their families and is in keeping with a healthy work - life balance. 

 Any such agreement must not result in a loss of our members pay, annual leave or any form of claw back. 

An agreement securing the terms of this motion must be achieved by no later than 1st November 2008.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Northamptonshire Amal

Motion 161 – Accepted

This Conference instructs the incoming Postal Executive that agreement is reached with Royal Mail that Saturday 27^th December 2008 will be classed as a non service day as per previous years with no claw back of hours or loss of annual leave or pay.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

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York & District Amal

Motion 162 – Accepted

Recognising that Royal Mail no longer requires delivery staff to attend on the Good Friday Bank Holiday, the PEC shall secure agreement that Easter Saturday will be a non-service day, with no claw-back of hours, or loss of pay.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Bradford and District Amal

Motion 163 – Accepted

Conference recognises that the Network 2007 changes introduced by executive action by the employer last year has had a major impact on the attendance times of our membership in delivery offices.  In particular having to start later and subsequently finish later. It also recognises that this impact is felt far more acutely by SPDO’s that rely on delivery offices to primary sort their inward mail, which in some cases necessitates start times after 08:30hrs. With the introduction of long & short days, and the corresponding requirement to work attendance spans in excess of eight and a half hours on the long days, this is now causing deliveries in these areas to breach the 15:00hrs last letter rural delivery specification and attendances that extend past 17:00hrs.

 Conference agrees that this situation is not in the best interests of the business, the customer and most importantly our members and cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged. Therefore, Conference further agrees that the Postal Executive are instructed to enter into negotiations with Royal Mail to achieve a level of feeder service that both allows SPDO’s to maintain the national rural delivery specification and re-introduces acceptable attendance patterns to the employees working in such establishments without the loss of full-time jobs. 

The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Eastern No.3

Motion 164 – Carried

Conference agrees that the current attendance call rate allowance contained within the Pegasus/Geo-route delivery revision tool of 1.7% is both outdated and unrealistic. It is further agreed that the 1.7% attendance call rate bears no relation to the current make up of delivery traffic handled by our members in delivery offices and does not accurately reflect the increase in the “Special Delivery”, “Signed For” and packet traffic volumes.  

Conference, therefore instructs the Postal Executive to negotiate and agree with the employer an attendance call rate that more accurately reflects the current traffic profiles and/or a mechanism/procedure to accurately assess attendance call rates for proposed delivery routes devised by the Pegasus/Geo-route system.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Eastern No.3

Motion 166 – Carried

Wholesale collapsing of the outdoor element of deliveries during summer is not in the best interests of members on Delivery.

 Whether this is on a ‘1 in 6’ or ‘1 in 10’, or other ratio, collapsing and absorbing the outdoor element of Deliveries will result in: walks over 3.5 hours town (4.5 hours rural) delivery span specification; breaking the 14:00 town (15:00 rural) last letter delivery specification; and undermine the health and safety of members.

Any attempt by Royal Mail to impose such a practice shall be met with an industrial action ballot of those members affected.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Bradford and District Amal

South Central No.1

Motion 168 – Accepted

Conference applauds the Do The Job Properly campaign that was organised by the Outdoor Department last year and the advice that CWU HQ has regularly given to delivery members encouraging them not to use their private cars on delivery.

 To this end, Conference reaffirms last year’s accepted proposition 156 and that any future agreement with Royal Mail on a new delivery model will result in a complete ban on the use of private cars on delivery.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Northamptonshire Amal

Motion 169 – Accepted

This Conference instructs the incoming Postal Executive that agreement is reached with Royal Mail that they will as a matter of policy prosecute all dog attacks taking the responsibility away from the individual who was attacked.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

York & District Amal

Motion 170 – Accepted following debate

This Conference instructs the incoming Postal Executive to seek an up to date agreement for management patrols on deliveries, to prevent unfair treatment of CWU members.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Eastern No.6

Motion 171 – Accepted

Conference notes the moves made by Royal Mail to close enquiry offices in Delivery Offices at lunchtime as a money saving measure.  This is being done at the same time as they are carrying out a review with the aim of expanding the facilities available to the public at these offices.  Conference therefore, calls on the Postal Executive to adopt the following policies in response:

      -  Opposition to all further proposals to curtail enquiry office opening hours.

-          Campaign to restore the opening hours of those already closed.

-          Campaign to increase the facilities and services available to the public at these offices.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Greater Manchester Amal

Motion 172 – Carried

Conference recognises the huge increase in packet traffic, which is largely due to the growth in online purchasing and auction sites. This increase in mail is only set to rise in the future. Online customers, both posters and mail recipients opt to use the services of Royal Mail because it is a trusted, secure and reliable service.

 Therefore conference agrees that the ongoing cuts in delivery offices, and in particular callers office hours, is becoming a barrier for customers receiving this mail, which is normally due for delivery the next day. However, due to the later starts in Delivery Offices, many customers are not able to receive these items, which results in a P739 being issued. 

Conference calls on the Postal Executive to carry out a study/ survey, with the input from branches, on the increased volumes of mail which is returned to delivery offices due to the addressee not being at home to receive the item (s). Once this study has been carried out the CWU will embark on an internal campaign nationally and locally to have callers office hours extended to suit the needs of our customers. The aim of this campaign will be to extend the opening hours of caller’s offices to ensure the demands of the customer is met. 

The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Gloucestershire Amal

Eastern No.5

Motion 173 – Carried

Conference agrees that the total number of fully loaded perstorp boxes to be transported in York containers should be reduced from 28 to 20.

 This allows for the maximum load of the container being a total weight of 250kg and a maximum box weight of 10kg 

The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Essex Amal

Motion 174 – Accepted

Conference recognises the amount of work our H&S Department has put into securing an agreement of the use of cardboard sleeved Yorks. 

However the agreement has an emergency clause that is abused by the employer, particularly at Christmas when delivery Unit members have to deal with the fall out of vast quantities of poorly loaded Yorks. 

Against this background the emergency clause must be removed so that only Amazon, QVC at Crewe, and the new TNT Downstream Access trial are despatched in cardboard sleeved Yorks only.

 The removal of the emergency situations clause must be removed by no later than October 2008.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Essex Amal

Motion 175 – Accepted

This Conference instructs the incoming Postal Executive to reach an agreement with Royal Mail whereby:

 Any item of delivery equipment, designed to take the weight off the shoulder of delivery postpersons, which has been risk assessed for Health & Safety and suitability and is approved by both the CWU and the Employer as beneficial and proper for the task. 

That it is not in then in the best interests of our members for the decision to use that piece of equipment to be left to the individual as to its use or not, the said piece of equipment should allocated for use and instructed to be used on the identified duty.

 The decision should be taken by the Person in Charge who has direct responsibility under the H.S.A.W Act, as their duty of care.

 Except in cases where a local Risk Assessment, has already identified that the use of such equipment is found to be and can be shown as impractical for a particular situation. 

The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Glasgow & District Amal

Motion 176 – Accepted

This Conference agrees that the “part-time harmonisation agreement” currently in place within Royal Mail is discriminatory in respect to the process of rounding individuals annual leave entitlement to the nearest ½ day when working less than 4 attendances per week. This Conference instructs the incoming Postal Executive to re-negotiate this part of the “part-time harmonisation agreement” to bring it into line with the current legislation which states that ‘your employer can't round down the number of days given, because this would be unfavourable treatment.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Bristol & District Amal

Motion 178 – Accepted

Conference calls upon the incoming Postal Executive to reach an agreement with Royal Mail for the introduction of Official Motor Vehicle key lanyards. This is due to the ruthless way management deal with mails integrity vehicle issues. A simple agreement on introduction of this equipment will help protect our members future employment.

 The Postal Executive is instructed accordingly.

Eastern No.4