APWU and USPS Agreement Will Protect Maintenance Staffing

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Floor Deduction Dispute Resolved, Duty Assignments Restored

(5/25/2012) The APWU and the USPS reached a settlement on May 25 that will protect staffing, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced. The agreement prohibits the Postal Service from deducting square footage of floor space, including under mail processing equipment, in developing a Building Inventory. The agreement resolves Case #Q06T-4Q-C 10269698, which was scheduled for arbitration next week.

Management began deducting the square footage as a ploy to reduce staffing.

The agreement requires the Postal Service to inform USPS representatives and to have restored the  deducted square feet of floor space within 30 days. The settlement does not permit “new” staffing packages to be created.

“Local management needs policing by local unions to ensure that the only adjustments made are in fact restoration of the square feet of deducted space,” Raymer said. The agreement stipulates that all other entries on the inventory and the frequencies of work remain the same.

Duty Assignments
The settlement also provides that local postal management take immediate action to restore any duty assignments established by the return of the deducted floor space. Such duty assignments must be posted and filled within 60 days of the settlement, which is in accordance with Article 38.4.A of the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement.

The initial vacancies and all following vacancies are to be filled with career employees. The Postal Service may fill any of these vacancies with PSEs.

All other issues and remedies regarding, for example, posting and filling of other duty assignments; other reasons for challenging the current staffing package; or anything outside of the returning of the deducted floor space; which may be in grievance cases that were held pending the outcome of this case, will be sent back to the field for resolution or arbitration.

8 thoughts on “APWU and USPS Agreement Will Protect Maintenance Staffing”

  1. This is a maintenice thread Sue. Take your management hate mongering somewhere else. I’ve worked most of the jobs in the post office and nobody except for some of the carriers is breaking a sweat. Custodial job was set aside by congress for disabled vets. Not as a clerk or carrier working retirement.

  2. OCCUPY 1300 L STREET NW, WASHINGTON DC! FIND OUT ABOUT YOUR DUES FUNDED APWU OFFICER RETIREMENT PLAN THAT YOU CAN’T USE AND THAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT.

  3. Watch “On the Waterfront” and keep paying dem dues bruthas n sistas. What? That was a long time ago? Yes it was. Much more covert nowadays but same ole, same ole.

  4. Where I am a few custodians are great, the majority are hiding and doing nothing. No one is watching them. They start at 6 am and by 7 am they are outside smoking. Nice job if ya can get it. The ones who are good try to pull the weight of the others, typical for the po.

  5. Cliff Goofey got confused at the negotiations and thought a cola was a 12 oz. drink.
    Ever notice in a postal plant there are about 10 to 20 different people collecting empty cans and bottles?

  7. It’s coming and no doubt you do absolutely nothing for anyone except bitch and complain about how hard you have it. Get over yourself. No one in the PO is overworked. Just a bunch of whiners and crybabies.

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