APWU Web News Article 035-2013, March 21, 2013
The APWU recently reached an agreement with the Postal Service regarding Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) duty assignments in finance functional areas (Function 5) and bulk mail units (Function 7).
The March 12, 2013, settlement [PDF] stipulates that the number of NTFT duty assignments in Function 5 or Function 7 will be limited to the number of Clerk Craft part-time regulars (PTRs) and part-time flexibles (PTFs) working in those functional areas immediately prior to the date when they were converted to converted to full time, Aug. 27, 2011.
In accordance with the agreement, the NTFT assignments will have at least two consecutive days off. Six-day work weeks will not be permitted unless management can demonstrate that the specific PTRs and/or PTFs were regularly scheduled for six-day work weeks prior to conversion.
Full-time flexible Clerk Craft NTFT duty assignments may be created and utilized in Function 7 in installations where PTFs were working in that functional area prior to Aug. 27, 2011, and are limited to that number.
Exceptions to the restrictions outlined above will only be permitted by mutual agreement at the local level.
A list [PDF] identifying all PTRs and PTFs working in Function 5 and Function 7 immediately prior to their Aug. 27, 2011, conversion is attached to the MOU.
In accordance with Article 37.3.A.1 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, “Every effort will be made to create desirable duty assignments from all available work hours for career employees to bid.”
I thought that as a PTR you were supposed to be converted to FTR? So how does mgt decide to make you a NTFT? What about the employee”s who had bids in the bulk mail units?
Did anyone notice “Six-day work weeks will not be permitted unless management can demonstrate that the specific PTRs and/or PTFs were regularly scheduled for six-day work weeks prior to conversion.”
Now APWU at national finally admitted. FULLTIME REGULAR EMPLOYEES CAN HAVE ONE OFF DAY, AS ALONG AS MANAGMENT CREATS NTFT DUTY ASSIGNMENTS.
IT’S SAD.
Dear Shadowy Figure,
I read your post twice and I have no idea what you are talking about. The APWU took me (as a PTF) from 40+ hours to 32 hours per week CUTTING MY PAY BY PER YEAR BY 25%.
How would you like that kind of a haircut?
DUH!
I took action and went over to the NALC where I got a dollar an hour pay raise and better hours and MORE hours.
The the APWU told me I was making a big mistake!!!
Hahahahaha and I SAY SCREW THE APWU they didn’t get the chance to screw me.
Since August 23, 2011 I have fought as a representative to get my former PTFs-turned-NTFTs-and-FTNFTs the hours of work they had before they became “full-time”. Although they averaged more than 40 hours a week over six days, we could not convert due to excessing and withholding. NTFT conversion allowed management the opportunity to arbitrarily reduce their work schedules to 5 and 6 day a week schedules with as few as 30 hours and no more than 36 hours and exceed the FNTFT complement limits. Conversion resulted in the employees losing anywere from 7-10 hours a week(20-25% loss in time, wages, and benefits). In addition, local management selected their pet scabs to work over on a daily basis. The “saved” hours are of course worked by injured carriers, crossing crafts, 204bs, custodians, and postmasters which is just a fraudulent ledger shift to create the illusion of reduced clerk hours. I was harassed and intimidated in the workplace for refusing to just let this issue go. Finally a new PM, and a fortuitous remand (Unions procedure to give a problem back to the same ahole who refused to resolve it in the first place), solved this issue ironically 19 months to the day of their conversion. Sadly we could not recover their loss pay, wages, and benefits.
This highly touted, or should I say tooted settlement, seems to have spared only 77 employees among thousands of employees this practice. Craft employees know if you are hired off the street as a PTF/PTR in Finance or Bulk Mail, you are usually well connected and got the hook up not to have to work in Plants and Stations performing laborious work on nights, holidays, and weekends. Of course management would like to spare a DCT PTF/PTR that is usually handpicked from relatives or friends from desired duty abuse. I just don’t expect my Union to make it seem like the second coming of our Lord because they agreed to do so.
It goes along well with that non-traditional watershed agreement. No PTF conversions seen in PWU…only the adding of several layers of additional bodies to serve as buffers intended to provide some level of protection to the career FT workforce prior to the looming layoffs coming down the pike.
PTR,
That’s what happened to me and two other PTF’s in my office. The contract in Aug. 2011 made us FTFR’s. The senior PTF was offered a new schedule of no more than 36 hours per week. The other two which included me was no more than 32 hours per week. I made it into the carrier craft the exact week all this went into effect and I did not lose 1/4 of my pay. Since then I have been averaging 50-56 hours per week.
Most other FTFR’s in other offices around ours got their 40 hour weeks back but we did not due to the fact that MGT. in our office hired a PSE during all the negotiating and that voided us getting our 40 hour week back. Apparently grievances were filed after I left and the APWU lost so no change.
The APWU tried to tell me going to the carrier craft was a losing proposition!? WOW
We are all screwed. Why did they convert the PTF’s in the Mail Handlers and and Carrier union, but not the APWU union. What a disgrace.
So what if you weren’t made a 40 hr clerk in Aug 2011? what if only getting 30-35 hrs/week which my understanding was against the contract. I know someone who was made a NTFT in aug 2011 for 33 hrs/wk.
APWU. The no-union 2233@southeast mail facility in penna dont represent the members they represent the postal managers (honeydews). While seniority rights job awards only for junior crboonies the local pres Arthur thinks he is King Arthur ,the national if they are about any u ion rights should put local under trusteeship before the Ship sinks and APWU is held for noaction
What about the ptf’s in the Motor Vehicle Craft? Are they thr forgotten Heros of the APWU? WTF