APWU: Enforcing the MS-47 MOU

Dear All, Attached please find message which responds to inquiries that have come in on the work hour comparison of item 6 of the July 9, 2014 MOU. It’s intended to help out those Locals who may need some assurance they are on the right track. Please forward to MCDs and Local Presidents in your…

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APWU: Maintenance Craft Defeats Improper Excessing

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…

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Questions from Maintenance Director Raymer regarding Elevators, if any, in your Office

Brothers and Sisters, If you or your Maintenance rep would kindly take a few seconds to respond to the below, it would greatly aid our efforts. Local Name: ____________________ Q: Do you have elevators?  Yes or No If Yes, please answer the following: How many floors do the elevators go to? ____ Are the elevators…

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APWU: Progress on PSEs; Attacks on BEMs, Custodians

(This article appears in the July/August 2014 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Steve Raymer, Maintenance Division Director The Maintenance Craft has made significant progress recently on issues of concern to Postal Support Employees (PSEs). The Memorandum of Understanding on Filling Residual Vacancies, which was signed by President Dimondstein on March 20, solidified the timing…

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Maintenance Sets Process For PSE Conversion to Career

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…

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