From APWU: The union filed a Step 4 dispute in November, challenging management’s decision to establish Sales Retention Team jobs without assigning the positions to the Clerk Craft and without posting the jobs for bid. Management’s actions violate Article 1.5 and 37.3.A.1 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the dispute notes.
The USPS first notified the APWU of a “pilot test” of the sales team concept in St. Petersburg FL on Oct. 19, 2012; on June 27, 2013, management informed the APWU that the program would be expanded to six additional sites. Since then, the program has been extended to 12 locations. “It is clear that this program is no longer a ‘pilot’ in any sense of the word,” the Step 4 dispute says. Furthermore, the Collective Bargaining Agreement makes no exception to contractual requirements for such programs, the dispute points out.
Note: The Sales Retention Team is a position created for the purpose of returning injured Postal Employees back to work. More information is forthcoming.
ITS NOT JUST MAKE BUSY WORK FOR MANAGEMENT. I WAS OFFERED ONE OF THIS JOBS AS A CLERK TO HAVE A MODIFIED ASSIGNMENT AS A LIMITED DUTY INJURED WORKER AND IM GLAD TO BE RETURNING TO WORK. ITS ABOUT TIME THE COMPANY DID SOMETHING AND CAME UP WITH JOBS TO ACCOMODATE INJURED WORKERS.
They’re just excess management make-work jobs.