Oshkosh Class Action Grievance Settlement creates Custodial jobs, protects BEM jobs

August 18, 2023 “The parties agree that the current staffing at the Oshkosh Carrier Annex will be shifted back to the Oshkosh P&DC. Meaning that the PS4852 (Oshkosh Annex custodial staffing) will simply now fall under the Maintenance manager. This is the way it once was, both parties agree that it’s more efficient and easier…

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APWU: First Line H Regional Arbitration Award

Via Idowu Balogun, APWU Maintenance Division, Assistant Director A: We are pleased to share with you a very recent regional arbitration award. This award, J10T-4J-C 15092710, is on the issue of local application of Item 6 of the 7/9/2014 MS-47 T/L-5 MOU. We commonly refer to this as a Line H dispute (Line H is…

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APWU: Custodian Implementation Schedule as of Feb. 14, 2015

Web News Article #: 031-2015 02/18/2015 – The Postal Service and APWU settled a custodial staffing dispute in July, with staged gradual implementation as one of the requirements. The USPS and APWU agreed to implement the cleaning procedures as stated in the MS-47 Handbook – Transmittal Letter 5 (MS-47 TL-5) at no more than 15…

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