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Focus Unit - East Delivery Office Belfast
Tuesday 18th November Update
On Tuesday 18th November a further meeting took place with all members within E.D.O.
The topic for discussion was the Annual Leave Agreement. After lengthy debate the options available where put before the membership and the members voted accordingly.
Due to other members not being in attendance the vote will continue tomorrow with the local rep consulting the members who have been on daily leave today. This consultation will close the vote and the outcome will be posted in the unit and also on this webpage.
In closing, I would like to thank the membership of E.D.O. for their participation and the professional way they conducted their debate. I would also like to thank the CWU Units Reps, Nick Cropper and Terry Morrison for their support of the Branch to enable a resolution to be found to this issue. In closing, this process is the beginning of the Branch engagements with our members in EDO and we will continue to progress our members issues on their behalf. The Branch will continue to keep our members updated as things progress within the Office.
Wednesday 19th November Update
Colleagues,
In furtherance to the previous reports, the current situation with E.D.O. today is that,
there was a meeting with the D.S.M. and the Acting Branch Secretary to further
develop the progress that has been achieved thus far this week.
The Branch gave the D.S.M. a report on how things were progressing with Annual
Leave in the office and the current issues surrounding the leave allocation that has
continued to cause several of our members concerns. It was relayed to management
that our members aspire to more proper work-life balance and this must be accepted by
the Business moving forward from our viewpoint.
The Branch has requested a joint communiqué be distributed within the office to
ensure all members are kept abreast of the salient issues that are being addressed on
their behalf and also to grant opportunity for all members to be involved in the
processes.
There will be an exercise established shortly to garner more information from members
in reference to their generic issues which can be used as current data to progress the
discussions by both CWU & Management.
There will of course be continued dialogue between the Branch & Management and
another meeting is scheduled to take place early next week involving the local rep,
Branch & senior management on the information received this week from members to
progress their issues. The outcome will be reported as a follow up report on this
website.
Kind Regards,
Monday 11th May Update
Colleagues
CWU can announce the result of the ballot that took place in the EDO:
Option 1-22 votes
Option 2- 0 votes
Option 3- 0 votes
Option 4-35 votes
Option 4 is the preferred option of CWU members
Gabe Mc Curry CWU