From signing the deal, we lost household money, an average of £40 a month.
We lost the capacity to earn more with as the household quantities being expanded, a further £40 (ish).
We still gain by being paid the lesser amount 52 weeks of the year, but households only stopped for xmas week.
Reduced to 39 hours a week, but that just equates 1 less hour to do the work we did in 40 hours.
Later starting/finishing time, inc Saturday.
Apparently 3 to 4 Saturdays off is only an option if it can be managed within the office, & guess what, it's not.
Loss of bikes, again pushed through by Union on H&S grounds, you find me a postie happy with that.
I'm sure there must be people who have gained, but it certainly isn't the core (delivery staff) of the work force.
To be honest it's at a point now when I'd rather management did bypass the Union as at least then we would all know who's at 'fault' and would all be able to work with or DOM, instead of having to go through an argumentative lazy self serving union rep who, along with there acolytes will come out of all of this still abusing the system and doing nothing positive for the company.
I do still very much enjoy my job, but just wish management and the union would stop trying to fudge every issue 'in my best interest', when all they are trying to do is score points off each other, screwing me over in the process.
We lost the capacity to earn more with as the household quantities being expanded, a further £40 (ish).
We still gain by being paid the lesser amount 52 weeks of the year, but households only stopped for xmas week.
Reduced to 39 hours a week, but that just equates 1 less hour to do the work we did in 40 hours.
Later starting/finishing time, inc Saturday.
Apparently 3 to 4 Saturdays off is only an option if it can be managed within the office, & guess what, it's not.
Loss of bikes, again pushed through by Union on H&S grounds, you find me a postie happy with that.
I'm sure there must be people who have gained, but it certainly isn't the core (delivery staff) of the work force.
To be honest it's at a point now when I'd rather management did bypass the Union as at least then we would all know who's at 'fault' and would all be able to work with or DOM, instead of having to go through an argumentative lazy self serving union rep who, along with there acolytes will come out of all of this still abusing the system and doing nothing positive for the company.
I do still very much enjoy my job, but just wish management and the union would stop trying to fudge every issue 'in my best interest', when all they are trying to do is score points off each other, screwing me over in the process.
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