{"id":8778,"date":"2016-05-19T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=8778"},"modified":"2016-05-19T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T16:00:31","slug":"profits-must-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=8778","title":{"rendered":"Profits must pay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unite has called on Royal Mail to recognise the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098invaluable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 role its members have played in delivering today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (May 19) five per cent increase in profits.<\/p>\n

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Unite wants bosses to make an improved pay offer and resolve an ongoing pay dispute.<\/p>\n

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Nearly 5,000 Royal Mail managers are currently taking industrial action short of a strike. This includes working to rule and a ban on overtime, after 96 per cent of members rejected a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098paltry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 1.3 per cent pay offer for the year starting September 2015.<\/p>\n

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The action, which Unite warns will eventually affect postal deliveries to 27 million homes across the UK, comes as Royal Mail announced group profits had increased by five per cent to \u00c2\u0141742 million.<\/p>\n

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Union members gave their backing to the campaign of industrial action with 78 per cent voting for action up to and including strike action and 93 per cent for action short of strike action.<\/p>\n

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Extremely frustrated<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Brian Scott, Unite officer for Royal Mail members, said, “Unite members will be extremely frustrated that their hard work to deliver a positive financial result is not being recognised by the company.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWith the UK part of Royal Mail making \u00c2\u0141608 million profit, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear that the company can afford to reward Unite members for their hard work with an improved pay offer,” he added.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bA failure to do so will lead to the overtime ban and work to rule that our members are engaged in hitting deliveries to homes and businesses. A fact which we note is \u00e2\u20ac\u0098glossed\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 over in Royal Mail\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual report.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAs well as helping to deliver a five per cent increase in the Royal Mail group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s profits, Unite members have made a valuable contribution to quality of service,” Scott pointed out.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhile the target of 93 per cent for first class deliveries was missed by 0.5 per cent, it would have been much worse had it not been for Unite member\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commitment to the public postal service,” he added.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Royal Mail to recognise the invaluable role our members play by negotiating a pay offer which properly reflects their hard work.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unite has called on Royal Mail to recognise the \u00e2\u20ac\u0098invaluable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 role its members have played in delivering today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (May 19) five per cent increase in profits.   Unite wants bosses to make an improved pay offer and resolve an ongoing pay dispute.   Nearly 5,000 Royal Mail managers are currently taking industrial action short of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[135,314],"wps_subtitle":"Royal Mail urged to improve offer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}