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Taken for Granted

02/01/08

The following letter was written by Kevan Pugh Branch Secretary to the Colchester Evening Gazette in response to a letter from Tim Young from the Colchester Labour Party. In his letter Mr Young contends that the Post Office is better off under Labour despite the programme of closures.

The letter from Tim Young in last Thursdays Gazette contending that postal services are best protected under Labour raises several issues.That of most concern to the public,the future of the Post...

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Press Response - 05/12/07
The following letter was written to Steve Huk as Chairman of Great Oakley Parish Council following a report in the Harwich & Manningtree Standard last week about delivery failures in his Parish and...

Website Takes Off - 10/10/07
Just 3 days from the three months that the site has been running, the Colchester & District Branch website broke the 100 unique visitors per day barrier. Then yesterday, it went further and broke the...

National Dispute - 10/09/07
Talks between the Union and Royal Mail concluded without an agreement being reached on Sunday evening....

Talks Extended - 04/09/07
Following a meeting with Royal Mails senior management team the Postal Executive have today unanimously agreed the following Joint Statement:-...

Pay Dispute - 29/08/07
As you will all be aware, there was a blanket ban placed on the leaking of news, surrounding the talks currently in progress....

Strike Suspended - 09/08/07
Following a meeting held today between the General Secretary, DGS (P), Allan Leighton and Adam Crozier a Joint Statement has been agreed. ...

SA Strike Breakers - 02/08/07
It has come to my attention, that some Strike Breakers are being paid their SA payments, while not performing the duty. This is an Abuse of the system by local management and we will not stand for it!...

Post support for the posties - 02/08/07
Royal Mail management wanted to deliver a good kicking. They thought they had the postal workers on the ground and that now was the time to put the boot in. But reaction to their latest plan of...

Later Starts - 30/07/07
LATER STARTS: Monday 13th of August. As our union officials have been telling us for a long time now, Royal Mail want to retard our start times by up to 1 hour and 15 minutes, taking the average...

Do the job right! - 30/07/07
WORK YOUR PROPER HOURS: Do the job right! In Delivery Offices throughout Great Britain, Posties are starting to do the job correctly, they have ceased arriving early, started taking their meal...

Eight Ash Green - 30/07/07
Strike Action: Eight Ash Green, Saturday 28th. As the Area Rep, it is always good to hear from members / colleagues who are supporting our Strike Action, especially those working in our SPDOs who...

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Peter Boulton

Area Delivery Rep & Branch Equality Officer

National Pay Brief. - 25/10/07
"Today I attended the National Pay briefing which took place at the Friends Meeting Hall, Euston Road London, at which our national officers laid out what had been achieved through their negotiations with Adam Crozier and others..."

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from your Branch Secretary

Kevan Pugh

Branch Secretary, Area Delivery Sub Rep, Branch Political Officer & Colchester Rep

Eastgates Newsletter - 24/06/08
"Saturday Start Times

You will recall from the previous Newsletter that a proposal to move to a 0545 start time across the week was proposed as a settlement against the issue of early start time on Saturday. Although this proposal was received with a broad consensus of agreement I have real concerns that the margins are very thin, and that sort to clear will be used as a contingency when clearance is in doubt..."

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Area Delivery Rep & Branch Equality Officer - Peter Boulton

Area H&S Rep, Branch Treasurer - Keith Harris

Area H&S Sub Rep, Sudbury Rep - Daren Warbis

Branch Chair, Royal Mail Section Chair & Distribution Sub Rep - Ray Harmon

Branch Secretary, Area Delivery Sub Rep, Branch Political Officer & Colchester Rep - Kevan Pugh

Clacton H&S Rep, Clacton Sub Rep - Paul Alexander

Clacton H&S Sub Rep - Danny Overton

Deputy Branch Secretary, Vice Chair, Legal & Medical Secretary, Colchester Dist. Rep & Colchester Sub Rep - Karl Bloomfield

Halstead Rep - Steve McKenna

Halstead Sub Rep - Terence MacAvoy

Harwich Rep - Mark Windred

Harwich Sub Rep - Brian Edmunds

Manningtree Rep - Graham McCraw

Royal Mail Section Secretary & Frinton Rep - Ian Race