USPS managers deleted or changed logged hours, intimidated workers, arbitrator found
The U.S. Postal Service has been ordered to pay damages to San Jose workers and train management staff after an independent review of timecards showed “broad evidence of a pattern of deletion or alteration” of employees’ timecards, according to arbitration documents provided to this news organization.
file photo from USPS OIG
Starting in 2014 and through at least 2017, postal workers were told that they had to finish routes within their allotted eight-hour shifts or receive discipline from management, alleged the workers’ union, the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Carriers frequently skipped meals and breaks to make time, and in some cases, ran to finish their routes.
Even so, supervisors across San Jose’s 12 stations regularly changed workers’ timecards when workers couldn’t make it back in time, the arbitrator found. Workers not only lost wages — by the union’s estimation, nearly 6,000 hours over the years — but struggled with constant pressure and low morale.
That led to the union filing of a class action grievance in 2017 alleging contract violations. At hearings last August, September and January, the union presented nearly 270,000 pages of documents to the arbitrator, most of which were “clock ring” data that tracked workers’ logged hours.
The arbitrator’s review of the records showed consistent discrepancies between the hours employees actually logged with their swiped badges and what was later reflected in their timecards. An “alarming” number of timecards marked postal tours ending exactly on the hour or one minute before, while others contained codes meant for other types of duties, like training or in-office work.
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Well that’s a shock…NOT!
It happened is Sioux City, Iowa, PM ordered the supervisor to “adjust” the times of late returning carriers and HE lost his job, not the female PM.
She was demoted to a lower level PO in a different district (2 miles away) but only because I didn’t let her verbal and physical abuse to employees slide.
HR, LR and the district Mgr. for Hawkeye were all defending the PM, I called the Western area VP and spoke to him directly.
Time for the final solution. Where is Eichman when we need him?
Why is this going to an arbitrator. This should be at the District Attorneys office.
When are all these toolbags gonna be held accountable
for these crimes. The toolbags should have to pay these
lost wages with there own money. This will stop all this BS
that goes on. Secondly the toolbags should be fired and sent
to trial for felonies they commit. When and what will it take
for the government and the people to realize that the PO
is a toxic haven for mismanagers, stupidvisors and immoral
dregs that will do anything for themselves and only themselves.
Time to close the doors and run. Muffin Meghen is packing
for retirement with a couple of bags of money. Seaver and the
boys at the spa are scurrying. What will come next? Trumpie
bear is lurking. Time is running out. Get out while you can.
A fine pool of management employees that will be in the running to be picked to be P.M.G. the new P.M.G. will fit along with the rest of the officials in Washington, Dis Connected.