Post Office pay latest

TO: ALL BRANCHES WITH POSTAL MEMBERS

Dear Colleague,

POST OFFICE: PAY 2012 AND BEYOND AND THE FUTURE

OF THE CROWN OFFICE NETWORK
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Further to LTB 224 dated 5th April in which we reported that we had taken

the decision not to serve notice for industrial action on Friday 12th April

due to the Post Office’s invitation to “discuss ways of resolving the current dispute”;

we met with Post Office senior management this afternoon.

Disappointingly, the talks ended acrimoniously. A number of constructive suggestions

on our part in order to move things forward were completely dismissed out of hand

during the meeting and it was totally clear that the Post Office had no intention of

 improving its pay offer and indeed expected us to sign up to their plans around

 transformation. Evidently, the Post Office is in denial about the strength of feeling

from our members

The Post Office is unwilling to negotiate a fair and decent pay offer for our members,

and given its unilateral decision surrounding franchising and closures, we have no

 option but to serve notice for further strike action, a position which has been endorsed

by the Postal Executive. The Post Office will be notified of this industrial action in due

 course.

Further developments will be reported.

Yours sincerely

Andy Furey Dave Ward
Assistant Secretary Deputy General Secretary