Excerpts: “This interpretive dispute was referred to the national level by the Postal Service. The dispute involves the meaning of the sentence: “Every effort will be made to create desirable duty assignments from all available work hours for career employees to bid.” This sentence was added to Article 37, Section 3.A.1 of the National Agreement…
We have an AMT position that is domiciled in Medford, OR that performs the Letter Box Mechanic duties. The AMT recently retired. TACS reports show that the retired AMT was assigned to a different finance number than Medford. That finance number is a Portland District finance number. While the duty assignment is vacant, the Portland…
Web News Article #: 61-2017 06/16/2017 – Throughout the country, the Postal Service has launched an all-out assault on our jobs and is blatantly violating the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in their staffing of post offices. The USPS is reducing service to the community and disrupting the lives of postal workers by reducing duty assignments…
Attached is a current list of all 29,946 postal facilities in the United States. These are postal-owned or leased buildings staffed with postal employees. This list includes the facility name, facility type, street address, nine-digit Zip code and finance number. I’ve noticed that postal job offers are sometimes lacking this information. The CBA makes a…
Many convention resolutions dealt with issues involving Postal Support Employees and Non-Traditional Full-Time assignments Web News Article #: 01-2015 – 01/06/2015 Negotiations for the next collective bargaining agreement (CBA) are scheduled to begin in mid-February, and the Industrial Relations Department has been busy researching material and developing strategies for contract talks. Our goal will be…
APWU Web News Article #: 173-14 09/19/2014 – The APWU and USPS settled an important dispute, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced, stipulating that the Postal Service cannot declare an installation “non-maintenance capable” and use the designation to justify excessing Maintenance Craft employees who work on Building Equipment. The work at issue is primarily…
