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Yeah I agree.
If I understand correctly, they've been offered a 9 percent pay rise? And they want more? 9 percent is a big big pay rise.

I'd never expect that from what is just an inflationary pay rise.
 
Bug One said:
Royal Mail staff can get XXXX if they don't think 9% isn't enough. My companies pay increase for next year has been announced, and it's half that.
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It isn't 9% though.

It is 3.5% not backdated for this year (April 22-23). 1.5% next year, all contingent on accepting the changes Royal Mail want to bring in and a one off £500 "bonus" whenever a successful revision is implemented. Which is equivalent to 2% but not consolidated in to pay as a one of payment.
 
i was sent a special delivery recently and it took near 3 weeks to arrive.

royal mail, zero help at all, no explanation, tracking no help, no sorry, no nothing.

I also sent one to N Ireland and that took a week and again they were zero help at all.
 
3.5% equates to ~44p per hour or £16 gross per week for a full time worker.

1.5% equates to about 19p per hour or around £7 per week for full time employee.

So a FT royal mail worker will be better off by only ~£23 when said pay deal is complete.

Whilst at same time, having allowances removed, increased child care costs due to moving of start and finish times etc. Some will be thousands worse off.

Seriously, look a wee bit beyond the headline grabbing 9%, which I've already explained isn't 9%.
 
kona786 said:
Exact same happened with my SD parcel. No update after 5am.
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This happened to me with my new graphics card a few weeks ago.

No updates after 5am. I waited by the gate with my phone for hours. Refreshed the tracking page at about midday:

"Your parcel could not be delivered".

I was livid. I went down to the sorting office in an Uber and waited for the postman to come back. After about two hours my wife called me to tell me it had been delivered, this was about 2.30pm. The parcel was soaking wet [it hadn't been raining, idk wtf they had been doing with it] and the outer packaging just fell away like pulled pork.

Fortunately the seller had packaged the parcel REALLY well and the internal box and graphics card were dry. A bizarre and frustrating experience.
 
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Just to clarify any confusion around the revised pay offer in case any BBC or mainstream journalist actually takes the time to do any research.

The proposed period the pay review covers is now18 months.
April 2022-October 2023.

However only the 2% already imposed applies from April 2022. The further 3.5% would be applied from when an agreement was ratified making it worth approx 1% this year.if a deal was agreed right now.

A £500 flat pro-rata for part-time staff non pensionable one off lump sum would be payable on implementation of a "successful" (as yet undefined) revision in delivery or some as yet undefined change in other parts of the business. This does not flow through into pay going forward. .

A further 1.5% would be applied in April 2023 and the next pay review would be October 2023 rather than April 2024.

The only difference in this and the previous offer is moving forward the next pay review from April 2024 to October 2023 but that only has any value if a pay deal could be agreed in October 2023 and given that this one is 9 months late and counting that seems highly unlikely.

There is no backdated money on offer.

And last but not least THIS DISPUTE IS NOT PRIMARILY ABOUT PAY but if you're only going to talk about pay at least have some pride in the job and do some research rather than just read a company press release.

Solidarity.
 
The Special delivery guarantee has been suspended until at least the first week in december. A message was sent to all post offices last week by RM

 
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I think it's more because it comes across in media that it's 9pc that's what people are taking issue with.
 
413x said:
I think it's more because it comes across in media that it's 9pc that's what people are taking issue with.
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Because they are selfishly mad that RM workers are in a position to negotiate for pay in line with inflation, and they are not?

Pay rises in line with inflation should be the expectation, not the exception. This system we have of scamming the population constantly will only lead to eventual implosion, doesn't take a genius to work that one out.
 
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Bug One said:
Royal Mail staff can get XXXX if they don't think 9% isn't enough. My companies pay increase for next year has been announced, and it's half that.
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To be fair your company not paying an inflation busting wage isn't relevant to Royal Mail staff fighting for theirs (and it's not inflation busting either at that rate).
 
Tephnos said:
Because they are selfishly mad that RM workers are in a position to negotiate for pay in line with inflation, and they are not?

Pay rises in line with inflation should be the expectation, not the exception. This system we have of scamming the population constantly will only lead to eventual implosion, doesn't take a genius to work that one out.
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Our pay offer is nowhere near in line with inflation.
 
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