Today 7 Mail Handlers crossed over to Maintenance positions at the Harrisburg P &DC. Meanwhile the Maintenance PSEs remain un converted. Its much easier to convet a mail handler helper and cross them over to maintenance than it is to convert a Maintenance PSE. The union should be outraged by this. Maintenance PSEs have spent … Read more
Dear All, As you know, the Union was successful in the National Revised Maintenance Selection System (RMSS) Arbitration recently. In order to identify affected employees, we created the attached questionnaire [PDF] for your usage. Completed forms are to be sent to Maintstaffing@apwu.org or mailed to the maintenance Division in DC. Feel free to distribute to your … Read more
Prosecutors: 2 Postal Service station managers part of scheme BALTIMORE —Four people, including two U.S. Postal Service station managers, have been indicted in connection with a bribery scheme to get money from the USPS. Richard Wright III, 46; Kimberly Parnell, 43; Shane Anderson, 37; all of Baltimore, and Ladena Sketers-Anderson, 47, of Randallstown, were indicted … Read more
In an office that has BEM’s in a section called Field Maintenance, and in the Plant, can/should the BEM’s in the field be allowed to work out of section overtime in the Plant? For example, if the Plant BEM’s are getting 20 hours overtime a week, shouldn’t the field BEM’s be offered 20 hours a … Read more
May 1, 2014 – (This article appears in the May-June 2014 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) By Steve Raymer, Maintenance Division Director On March 20, 2014, President Mark Dimondstein signed a memorandum of understanding with the USPS on Filling Residual Vacancies. The title sounds innocuous enough, but the agreement is an extremely important … Read more
According to the latest article in the APWU magazine, “PSEs deserve opportunities and upward mobility within the Maintenance Craft like every other Maintenance Craft member.” However, in the Harrisburg facility where I work the maintenance, PSEs are sitting unconverted while the newly converted Mail Handler Assistants were given the 955 test in April and will … Read more