USPS OIG Audit Report: Highway Contract Routes – Extra Trips in the San Francisco District

Background The U.S. Postal Service uses highway contract routes (HCR) to transport mail between its facilities and other designated points. An extra trip is one made in addition to those outlined in the contract; it results in added costs. Extra trips can be the result of late mail processing or early mail collection runs. Management…

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USPS OIG Audit Project: How Can the Postal Service Control the Costs to Shuttle Vehicles?

Project Title: Vehicle Shuttling – Northeast Area Start Date: Monday, August 31, 2015 Estimated Report Release Date: February 2016 The Postal Service spent nearly $34 million in fiscal year 2014 to move its vehicles from one location to another for maintenance, repair, or transfer. Local Vehicle Maintenance Facility (VMF) management determines when contractors or postal…

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APWU: Requests for Inclusion to AOI Arbitration Award to Close Oct. 1

Web News Article #: 185-2015 09/22/2015 – Well over 7,000 employees represented by the APWU have been paid as part of the Associate Office Infrastructure (AOI) national arbitration award. A period of time has been granted for anyone who may have been missed to provide the requested information for consideration to be included. The time…

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APWU: Arbitrator Sustains Grievance on Motor Vehicle Craft Subcontracting

Web News Article #: 067-2015 03/27/2015 – Arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg has sustained the MVS Craft Step 4 dispute in Case # Q10V-4Q-C 14125953, regarding contracting out Postal Vehicle Service work. The MVS Craft initiated the dispute in response to the USPS April 26, 2013, notice to the APWU that management was “considering subcontracting the…

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APWU: MVS Continues the Fight for Administrative, Technical Jobs

Web News Article #: 025-2015 – 02/11/2015 The union is pursuing our demand that management create at least 60 new administrative and technical duty assignments in the Motor Vehicle Service Craft, as required by the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). Four years after signing the CBA, the USPS still has not created the positions. Management…

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Arbitrator Voss declines to issue monetary remedy in Diebold subcontracting case

“I find that the appropriate make-whole remedy would be the amount of overtime, if any, of which the affected employees as a group were deprived.  This amount, as discussed above, was susceptible to reasonable, quantifiable determination.  The Union’s requested remedies do not reflect a loss of overtime to the affected group of employees. I therefore decline…

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