USPS has updated notifications to APWU and NPMHU of its intent to involuntarily reassign Clerks, Maintenance, Motor Vehicle Service (MVS) and Mail Handlers in the Pacific Area covering California and Hawaii. There is very little impact to management employees.
note: This summary created by PostalReporter.com and compiled from letters sent to the unions named above may be revised after reviewing documents attached to notifications. Some numbers are not adding up. For instance, in the letter referencing Oakland, CA installation, USPS is sending letter to 55 postal employees for involuntary reassignment but supporting documents list 50 postal employees. PostalReporter has received unofficial verification that the number should be 50. Stay Tuned…
This is to advise you of the intent of the ____________District to utilize the provisions of Article 12.6.C.5 of the National Agreement to involuntarily reassign __________ full-time mail handlers/ full-time clerks/full-time maintenance from the craft and/or installation at the _________ bid installation.
USPS based the impact on one of the following
This impact is based on a F1 Network Rationalization baseline staffing review
This impact is based on a 24 hour clock Function 1 baseline
This impact is based on an approved Area Mail Processing (AMP)
to relocate the processing of the Function 1 mail from the _______bid installation to the _______ bid installation.
The impacted employees will be notified of their involuntary reassignment by separate letter.
USPS is reducing the hours and/or terminating Postal Support Employees (PSEs) in each facility.
Here is a list of districts with impact date next to name of facility, the number of affected full-time postal employees (which is subject to change before impact date) and reason for impact :
Sierra Coastal District
Van Nuys – 07/11/2015 – 23 clerks, 5 Mail Handlers – 24 Hour Clock Function 1 baseline.
Santa Ana District
Santa Ana – 07/11/2015 38 clerks, 6 Mail Handlers -24 Hour Clock Function 1 baseline.
Alhambra -07/11/2015
359 Clerks – AMP
23 clerks- 24 Hour Clock Function 1 baseline.
(14) full-time motor vehicle service,11 motor vehicle operators and 3 tractor-trailer operators) – AMP
2 Mail Handlers – 24 Hour Clock Function 1 baseline.
Alhambra -one hundred thirty-four (134) full-time maintenance craft employees (30 Custodian, 2 Group Leader Custodial, 27 Maintenance Mechanics, 6 Maintenance Support Clerks, 1 Overhaul Specialist, 21 MPE’s, 8 Building Equipment Mechanics, 33 Electronic Technicians, 3 Area Maintenance Technicians and 3 Area Maintenance Specialists.
San Francisco District
Eureka CA CSMPC – date of impact- 04/18/2015
4 mail processing positions, 10 Mail Handlers, and 6 Maintenance employees at the Eureka CA CSMPC; and 1
additional clerk position will be created at the Crescent City CA transportation hub. Medford OR MPC will
gain 10 mail processing positions and 3 mail handlers under this AMP plan for a net reduction of 17. Management staffing in Eureka CA CSMPC will not change due to AMP. It is 195 miles from losing to gaining installation.
San Francisco– 06/30/2015 – 95 Clerks, Add 10 Mail handlers- Function 1 Network Rationalization review
San Diego District
San Diego – 07/06/2015 – 32 Clerks – 24 Hour Clock Function 1 baseline
San Bernadino– 07/06/2015 – 7 Clerks – 24 Hour Clock Function 1 baseline
San Bernadino – 07/06/2015 – 10 Mail handlers – 24 Hour Clock Function 1 baseline
Moreno Valley –07/06/2015 – 31 Clerks 24 Hour Clock Function 1 baseline
Los Angeles District
Los Angeles –04/18/2015 – 127 Clerks – 24 Hour Clock Function 1 baseline.
Sacramento District
Redding -04/18/2015 – 14 Mail Handlers – AMP
Redding -04/18/2015 – 14 clerks – AMP
Redding -04/18/2015 – (12) full-time maintenance craft employees (4 ET’s/2 MPE’s/6 Laborer Custodians) AMP
Redding CSMPC will have a reduction of 5 EAS positions and Sacramento P&DC will have an increase of 9
EAS positions. It is 161 miles from losing installation to gaining installation.
Fresno – 06/12/2015- 9 clerks – 24 Hour Clock Function 1 baseline.
Bay Valley District
Oakland – 06/30/2015 – 55 (50) Clerks- F1 Network Rationalization baseline staffing review
Oakland – 06/30/2015 – 22 Mail Handlers – F1 Network Rationalization baseline staffing review
San Jose – 06/30/2015 – 25 clerks – F1 Network Rationalization baseline staffing review
I have done all these jobs over the years and i have garnered an appreciation for the way that the mail was processed in each and every city and that it flowed nonstop like clockwork for over 225 yrs. You cannot say you do not need the USPS that is like saying you do not need UPS. It is the peoples mail from president to pauper. You got a box? You get mail. Simple.
Now someone walked up and smashed the grandfather clock- the way this place ticked and the way hundreds of thousands of employees used to work together. Changing the way mail flows is just what we should not do certainly never all at once. It should be worked into this system where it needs it but not everywhere all at once. The political aspect is a nightmare.
Might as well get ready for some mandatory ot. Management will not fail no matter how much it costs !
run, run
If it isn’t broken, fix it until it is. This should become the new motto for the USPS.
This whole thing is a disaster EVERYWHERE! Here @ SantaAnaP&DC it sounds the same as Tampa! They are sending our outgoing to San Diego (1st only on Sat. then…..) this whole horrible idea is to get the American Public angry and then for
Management to promote privatization! Hold on to your hats folks it’s gonna be a bumpy ride! Senator Sanders (Vermont) has our back so keep your fingers crossed! If the Bill he was able to get an attachment added passes we will get a 2year moratorium!
Your union pres. I worked with for 23 years and she was ghetto then and now. Always sitting on the PM lap, I fact she flunked out of mgmt training and ran right into stewardship
In Shrewsbury, Mass. , we have a central processing center in the middle of the state which is on the closure list and they want to process all of our mail on the east coast in Boston and truck everything to the western part of the state and are telling us they will save money on fuel. We have been told that there are at least 3 trailers full of uncancelled letters sitting outside of Boston Processing Plant that we have to send to them EVERYDAY!
Who ever told you that is wrong. Every truck is unloaded when it arrives and goes right to the 010. And we only get your letter size mail. Your Brothers and Sisters in Boston did not make this decision, so please don,t hate us for it.
They just converted10 PSE(s) to career positions on 12/27/14 at the Oakland Installation within the Clerk Craft. Now they want to excess 50 Clerks. The people who pick the people to be in charge are the ones who are ruining the Postal Service.
AMT is sleeping in his truck.
Adding 9 more supervisor position in Sacramento. How idiotic. We have too many supervisors here doing nothing yet you’re gonna add more positions? This is where the Post Office is losing money. Congress should do an independent investigation on staffing. At this rate of “stupidity”, the Post Office will have supervisors for every 5 people. Imagine the Post Office paying these new EAS between $60-80,000 a year for doing nothing? That’s 9 position at the high rate and it equals to $720,000 a year!
80000 for a supervisor. They start at 5% more than you. No bonuses, no OT although they have to work it at times. That’s why we don’t go for the jobs. Never complain about money for a job that you can apply for and get.
That’s why I said “between”, I didn’t say start. Also they released the “no bonus.” They do get bonuses now depending on how much they “kiss up.” ETs max at @ $63k plus 5% so that falls within the salary I posted.
It’s CRAZY here at the Tampa P&DC as well. They refuse to give 4 hours but are giving 2 overtime end tour every day. Tours 2 and 3 have not been trained on dps mail, so it’s a catastrophe. First pass dps has been transported to the stations and then returned, thus delaying the zones even more. This is like the Labor Scheduler revisited but worse!
If we are removing the craft people why do we keep management? Who is left to supervise??.
We started the new program here in the east Tennessee this week. It is a total flop. All clerks were told Monday until futher notice if you were on early overtime list you were to come in 4 hrs early until told different and those not on list were to do 10 hr days. Mail is backed up so bar it is being trucked to other places to process.
How is it elsewhere folks????
What did they do with Area Maintence Personel? Lewis Moten AMT.