Brothers and Sisters,
Is anybody around the country experiencing impacts due to this RTO program that’s been floating around for the last two years?
This is the same old mixed up, run around changing job hours for no reason at all diabolical staffing mess. there is a 24 hour clock in The Postal Service. You have X amount of machines X amount of employees and X amount of mail. Currently they have standardization of hours 6 to 2:30, 1:30-9and 9-5:30. Shifting the mail dispatches around does not change the processing hours of mail in relation to the 24 hour clock of employees working on the DBCS’s. Employees become acclimated to their work hours in the schedule, they build lifestyles around these hours, such as appointments, childcare, and other necessities of life.
My viewpoint is if it takes 2 to 3 mail processing clerks to run machines, what does it matter what hours they operate if the mail is fed and swept and dispatched at different times of the day on a 24 hour clock? Why do you have to switch the employees hours around just to substantiate a management bonus to show that they’re doing their job. I’ve been around for 37 years. This does not work in any way shape or form. I say move the mail around not the employees. They’re getting ready again to mess up all the installations due to their new RTO program.
If anybody out there has experience in this please email me so as we can help each other. I remember about 10 or 12 years ago when they eliminated tour two and all the processing plants. We here in Providence were one of the first installations to bring back the dayshift in automation. We must fight this animal called upper management. After all, who knows better how to move the mail – the employees on the floor – or people who sit behind a computer at a desk and don’t even touch the mail? I rest my case.
Yours in solidarity,
Steven Poole
S.poole@apwupvd.org
First Name: Steven
Last Name: Poole
Email: s.poole@apwupvd.org
Union/Local: APWU Providence Rhode Island Area Local 0387
Office held if any: Steward