Converted Unencumbered Regulars to be Assigned to Residual Vacancies
The Postal Service has withdrawn a challenge to provisions in the Collective Bargaining Agreement that require management to post newly created duty assignments using all available work hours — including hours worked by Postal Support Employees, Clerk Craft officers report.
“I am happy to announce this dispute has been resolved,” said Assistant Clerk Director Lamont Brooks. “All available work hours, including those worked by PSEs, can be used to create desirable duty assignments.”
The Postal Service initiated a Step 4 Interpretive Review on Oct. 24, 2013, asserting that management was not required to cobble together hours worked by PSEs when creating new assignments.
As a result of the dispute, all grievances involving the use of PSE hours to create desirable duty assignments have been held in abeyance, pending settlement of the case. Those cases should now be heard in accordance with Article 15 of the contract.
The Feb. 25 settlement [PDF] says, “After further discussion the parties agree there is no interpretive issue of general application in this grievance and as such the Postal Service withdraws this case from Step 4. Article 37.3.A.1 obligates the Postal Service to make every effort to create desirable duty assignments from all available work hours for career employees to bid; however, this does not require the conversion of PSEs to career.”
Conversion of Unencumbered
The union and management settled another important national-level grievance on Feb. 25, stipulating that newly converted unencumbered regulars will be assigned to residual vacancies, in accordance with Article 37.4 of the contract.
The dispute arose when management converted part-time regular and part-time flexible employees to full time on Aug. 27, 2011, and placed them in work assignments of less than 40 hours per week.
The APWU asserted that the employees should have been assigned to available residual vacancies, positions that remained open at the completion of the voluntary bidding process. The settlement endorsed the union’s position.
Common sense. Do you know what fraud is? Its a crime.
Does this mean any kind of monetary compensation for us NTFTs who were screwed with 30 hour jobs? or at least new jobs with 40?
On February 21, 2012, in the New York State Court for New York County, Neil Cardoso, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 1241 (located in Long Island City, N.Y.), was indicted with a charge of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, P.L. 155.40 (1) for allegedly using an ATM card to make unauthorized withdrawals of approximately $75,000 in cash from the union’s account. Cardoso was arrested on February 28, 2012 by investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and arraigned on March 2, 2012.
Is there a article in the contract that states PSE must work 60 hours 6 days or you can be fired I thought they where covered by the union they are regularly harassed by management and their union does nothing.
@Youbeingyou! First of all nobody is treating the PSE’s like trash. This settlement will hopefully at some point create jobs that PSE’s through the grievance process can eventually become career employees. The reason you were probably told to not go to arbitration was that you probably had created a situation were you would have been fired! It’s very easy to point the finger at other people when the union agent is not the person that put you in that position any way you were. So instead of looking for other’s to blame for your situation….look within!!! Wait for it…? It’ll come to you!!!!
All you have to do us look at the ex-APWU President Cliff “Goofy” Guffey’s contract he negotiated and pushed on the dumb suckers who voted for it and his actions as President to see he was in bed with Donahoho and that sucking up to management has permeated the union all the way down to the Branch Presidents.
The management and the union treat the pse like trash. The union is on big rip off. I am a worker for almost 27 years. The union agent that was suppose to represent me took away my right to be heard to get my back pay back instead the union agent on the phone tried to talk me out of the arbitration. Then signed off on me not getting my back pay back with some man without my consent. What a rip off. This is called fraud. How many other women have been told to go back to work because if you go to arbitration youll be fired. This is a scam. What happen to me was also fraud. The Good Ole Boys Club. The union is more connected to management than you thank. I hope to tell my story to congress and the newspapers. What is eeo nothing but a cover for management and the union. I feel for the pse’s.