From the National Association of Postal Supervisors
This morning, NAPS received a request from Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe to re-open pay consultations between NAPS and the United States Postal Service as a result of the USPS Board of Governor’s decision not to proceed with ending six-day First Class mail delivery. The Resident Officers alerted the PMG this afternoon that NAPS will not consent to reopening pay consultations.
Our lack of desire to re-open Pay Consultations does not signify any attempt to be uncooperative with
your efforts to address the current financial crisis the Postal Service is experiencing. In fact, our
members have undertaken a significant burden in sacrifices over the past three years.In 2012, through the Fact Finding process, we find ourselves in our third consecutive year without a
salary increase. We are paying an increased portion of our health benefits and future supervisors will
have reduced leave benefits and will pay increased percentages on their retirement contributions.Due to hiring freezes resulting from the financial crisis, we are understaffed by as many as 5,000
supervisory and managerial positions. Our members have performed admirably under these trying
conditions, moving the mail everyday throughout the country and have given back more than their fair
share.While we can agree that much more needs to be done to balance the finances of the Postal Service, we
feel that our members and the entire management team have made significant sacrifices and we have
concluded that re-opening Pay Consultations would not be reasonable or effective for our membership.
The full text of the letter from the Resident Officers to the PMG can be found here.
It’s not all managers. I have been a supervisor in 6 offices now and there are offices where I barely have time to pee and others where I have no idea what to do because the supervisors are falling on top of one another. It needs to be even by needs. I worked in a Level 20 with a PM and 3 supervisors. 36 total craft employees. I went to a 22 with over 100 routes and 150 employees and a PM with 2 supervisors. Makes no sense at all and no one can explain it.
No Manager left behind.
The PMG has to consult with NAPS and the management associations to cut their pay and numbers? WTF? Just do it Donahoe! they aren’t under binding collective bargaining agreements or arbitated settlements!
Come on, this can’t be real. Anyone that has worked for the post office for any length of time knows that we are so top heavy, if we were a ship, we would of sunk. I don’t blame the people that take the managment jobs. Everyone wants more money for doing less. I blame the people at the top for making these useless jobs. In a normal P&DC you have an average 6 to 10 employees to a supervisor and then one or two managers to look over 2 or 3 supervisors. Do the math.
Lets not forget the FSS offices that lost roughly 25% of their workforce to route eliminations. Then these same offices received roughly a 25% INCREASE in management personnel to manage the SMALLER workforce!
Postal mgmt = liars and thieves, at all levels.
seriously did not 26,500 craft employees just retired this last buy-out and you have supervisors in lobbies making the mininum of 80k a year and lets not discuss HQ personnal and mr president just promoted 2 new VP’s and just what was there saleries, come on man no supervisor moves the mail not one what we need is a honest look at just whos doing the work at the PO.supervisors are in offices not smelling nor touching the mail just in the way of the workers and i mean they stand right in the way. wecan doawaywith all middle management and use lead clerks and you will have fewer grievences, and leave some upper management in place for disapline if needed!
Understaffed ? We have two OIC’s in a level 18 office with 10 employees, ratio 1-5 really ?
I cannot quit laughing…okay, this just hit my funny bone because it is so transparent. Let’s take the money from the craft workers because the company is short on funds, WHEN HQ personnel are getting large pay days and bonuses on a company that is sinking???…AND NAPS is trying to defend the managers and Supervisors by saying they are…what..”moving the mail and have given their fair share.” I honestly know that if it weren’t for all the politics in this country, we’d all be living the good life. May the best and fastest talker win because having the “facts” just isn’t part of the game.
Thanks “understaffed supervisors”, for “moving the mail”! What a joke! We don’t need 90% of you that are still around, let alone 5,000 that are supposedly gone. Cut another 15,000 and maybe we can talk.
No re-opening Pay Consultation,enough said. Let’s have Congress give up some of their pay,after all they are the one’s who got us in this mess.They are paid $174,000 plus and they get free Health benefits,yet we are the one’s who have to pay more with no pay increase.They get retirement benefits after working 6 years and we must work 15-41 depending on age. Does someone see something wrong with this? Let’s face it if Congress and decide in three years what needs to be done at the USPS it only shows none of them have common sense.