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Proceedings to Resume Nov. 2
08/18/2015 – A hearing on charges that the Postal Service illegally subcontracted work to Staples was dominated by procedural wrangling on Aug. 17 and 18. The hearing before Administrative Law Judge Paul Bogas of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will resume on Nov. 2.
Region 5 of the NLRB issued a complaint against the Postal Service on June 26 in response to an “unfair labor practice” charge filed by the APWU against the Postal Service. The complaint asked the NLRB to order the USPS to cancel its Approved Shipper deal with Staples and return work that existed on July 31, 2014, to the APWU bargaining unit.
At the hearing, the Postal Service withdrew its request to defer the hearing to arbitration.
Both the Postal Service and Staples continued to resist complying with subpoenas issued by Region 5 of the NLRB and the APWU for use at the hearing, claiming that many documents contain confidential, proprietary information. Judge Bogas will rule on their claims at the Nov. 2 hearing.
Bogas granted a motion by Staples to intervene in the case, after Staples argued that it could not rely on the Postal Service to defend its interests in the proceedings. The Postal Service supported Staples’ motion.
The judge’s ruling is not supported by legal precedent, attorneys for the APWU and the NLRB General Counsel noted, and announced plans to appeal.
“The APWU deplores the ongoing collusion between the Postal Service and Staples to transfer the work of highly-trained USPS employees who are accountable to the people of the country to low-paid Staples employees,” APWU President Mark Dimondstein said. “This ploy enriches Staples executives while advancing the privatization of the public Postal Service,” he added.
“The APWU will fight with everything we’ve got in the legal arena, but we know the truth: We must defend our rights and interests by increasing members’ participation in the Stop Staples campaign and spreading word of the boycott,” he said.
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Glad you have it all figured out park n loop….. if the clerks are so understaffed then don’t bitch when people use places like staples or grocery stores to mail stuff instead of standing in line at the local PO. This entire business is a game on both sides. Through all the complaining and going back and forth from one side to another, at the end of the day nothing changes. Next year we will still be talking about the issues or something very similiar. I must have struck a nerve with you since you called me a 3rd grader. Thats funny! It shows me your IQ level……have to call names to argue rather than just make your point, and agree to disagree. Continue drinking the kool aid…… and “carry on my wayward son” as well.
Wrong!! Clerks, may not work windows on Sundays. But, they work 24/7 at mail-processing facilities. And the last couple of December’s, in NYC; they even opened some station windows, Sundays.
Well maybe the clerk windows should be open on Saturday’s after 10:00 if Diamondstein wants the extra business that Staples got, since it is so important to Rolando to deliver on Saturdays. Hell, why not have the clerks work Sundays too since they will be there anyway, since the CCA’s have to deliver on Sundays. But wait. You mean that the clerks don’t want to work on Saturday past 10:00 and they don’t want to work Sunday either?? So the Carriers can work weekends, but the Clerks don’t have too, yet the Clerks complain because people will use a more convenient location to mail stuff….. and the game continues
carrier chuck: Who would think the APWU wants to have understaffed windows during the times that customers would most likely be using this part of the USPS? Who would think USPS management wants to have understaffed windows during the times that customers would most likely be using this part of the postal service? Sorry to be so repetitive and dumb it down to such a simplified form for any 3rd grader to understand like that, but if one doesn’t know the answers to those questions by now then one had better repeat the second grade…Of course CCA’s would like to have sundays off, and working them 13 days in a row and giving them every other sunday off is not exactly a great deal, but the new folks have to understand that they have to pay their dues too…now if management wanted to be a little more humane and give some of these new people a break once in a while, they most definitely could start scheduling full time regulars on the overtime desired list to work their sundays and simply staff with an 8 hour guarantee instead of 2 or 4 for the CCA’s (depending on office size) and let the new people rest once in a while. Yes, that would cost more in terms of dollars, but in terms of employee morale, there could be immeasurable value added for both the full timers who have been feeling the crunch of reduced overtime opportunities, as well as the many CCA’s who are feeling burned out and overworked…So, if management has the right to manage, and if they choose not to do it the way as was just pointed out they could, then who bears the ultimate responsibility for sunday package delivery staffing? Two helpful hints, it’s not Fred Rolando, and it’s not the NALC…so if that’s not clear enough, perhaps pulling out the crayons and the color books will be a more helpful educational tool to be added for the next lesson…We will call it color by numbers rocket science for misguided Union bashers with angry chicken $hit whining complexes…carry on my wayward son…
Morons on top of morons, is hardly worthy of any competent defense. I’m referring 2 the USPS and APWU’s continued agreement 2 assign senior postal-workers; due 2 plant-consolidations to window and sales bids, even if they have no interest in dealing with the general public. What other company on plant earth does that? Perhaps, Staples has a point? Yet, Staples has also downsizing as they’ve closed stores and plan 2 close more.
JUST follow money !
We need to have a STOP STAPLES National Rally right before the hearing and put the pressure on them.