New MOU on Holiday Carrier Assistants in 2014
Sept. 23, 2014—The NALC and USPS have entered into the Memorandum of Understanding Re: Holiday Carrier Assistants – 2014 (M-01844). This MOU allows the Postal Service to begin hiring retired employees that wish to work during the upcoming four week December period. However, such employees shall not perform city letter carrier craft work prior to the four week December period in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding Re: Additional Resources – Holiday Carrier Assistant. Retired letter carriers in areas in need of holiday carrier assistants will be notified of these opportunities in the near future.
The Postal Service may employ holiday carrier assistants during the four week December period as operationally necessary, effective December 2014.
Holiday carrier assistants are subject to the following:
• The hourly rate will be the same as that for City Carrier Assistants.
• Over the course of a service week, the Employer will make every effort to ensure that available city carrier assistants are utilized at the straight-time rate prior to assigning such work to holiday carrier assistants working in the same work location.
• When an opportunity exists for overtime full-time employees on the appropriate Overtime Desired List will be selected to perform such work prior to assigning holiday carrier assistants to work overtime in the same work location where the employees regularly work.
The Postal Service shall provide the NALC with reports on the number of holiday carrier assistants hired.
NALC and USPS agree to new joint route adjustment process
Sept. 23, 2014—The NALC and USPS have agreed upon a new joint route adjustment process called City Delivery Route Alternative Adjustment Process (CDRAAP) for 2014 and 2015. The new Memorandum of Understanding Re: City Delivery Route Alternative Adjustment Process – 2014-2015 (M-01845) establishes the process. Additionally, the parties agreed to the Memorandum of Understanding Re: Alternative Evaluation and Adjustment Processes (M-01847), which covers locally developed joint route adjustment during the term of the new joint process. More details, including a jointly agreed upon document explaining the process in detail, will be available in the near future.
Another that doesn’t make sense in the Post Office.
USPS big problem is No Standards, Displine, and Goals
Been out 3 years but I think i’ll go back to show these CCA’s how to drag it out. Go slow=more dough!
Bring the annuitants back to deliver parcels. Especially for Sunday parcel delivery. They would probably know the deivery area better than the CCA’s.
In my office we have a two contract routes and both are worked by a retire city carrier and a retire rural carrier. Both I might add seem to be strange dudes..
I don’t get it… Typical carrier mentality to be against everything. When management brings in new, untrained, unmotivated temporary help, the workforce screams ‘hey, bring in some retirees! They know the job!!!’ Now the union and management agree to it and the slugs out there cry for ‘new’ people! I spent over 32 years listening to idiots cry for something….eventually get it…then cry it’s a bad idea. And then try to shame the retirees that wouldn’t mind an extra $1k-2k doing something they could do with their eyes closed. I say WHY NOT!! I retired this past march and I’ll be 57 this December. You can bet your ass I’ll be looking for a December temp spot near home. It makes perfect sense. As far as comparing it to a prisoner willingly returning to prison??? Please! It’s scary how many morons live among us.
Great just more OlD, Slow,and Money Milkers the Post Office needs to hire young good work ethic and business skilled people
after people have been retired for awhile they find their self in need of money to help make ends meet good idea better than working at walmarts
that’s funny! retired carriers coming back?? really?? NALC and the PO are really reaching here…. probably because nobody wants the CCA job with no benefits and $16/hr.
What about that unemployed father of three?
Doesn’t he need the job more?
NALC can’t protect rights of the current carriers.
Still fighting for those that had it easy.
What retired carrier would want to go back and work for those pud wackers? It’s like an prison inmate go back to the joint. Can think of 1000 better ways to earn pay!
I worked last year for the four weeks in December and earned the last 2 quarters of my social security, and now earn enough SS to cover my part B for medicare
C’mon NALC use your brains. Why would any carrier (field hands) ever want to go back to the PO (plantation) after finally getting out? I predict a very small percentage of retirees accepting this ridiculous offer. This will be a 1 year deal and done. Some carriers just might go back to show how to be a “slug” just for spite forcing mgmt to remove them. On second thought…….
and then you pay them as Casual rate…None of them will show up…Nice try USPS.
can I work as a part-time paper boy like I did when I was 10 years old during the christmas rush……oh that right people now read drudgereport for their news. old slug goats get a life.
Can’t enjoy retirement enough…..than get a life!!