{"id":11970,"date":"2022-01-14T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=11970"},"modified":"2022-01-18T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:26:52","slug":"usps-apwu-reach-final-remedy-settlement-on-major-clerk-craft-jobs-mou-national-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=11970","title":{"rendered":"USPS\/APWU Reach Final Remedy Settlement on Major Clerk Craft Jobs MOU National Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Clerk Division Director Lamont Brooks signed a settlement agreement to resolve the outstanding issue of the remedy in Case # Q10C-4Q-C 15174956. This issue remained pending based on the decision of Arbitrator Goldberg\u2019s April 21, 2017 arbitration award. The parties were unable to resolve the remedy issue and the matter was rescheduled for January 19-20 2022 before Arbitrator Goldberg. As a result of the award, the Postal Service posted Level-7 Human Resources (HR) Clerk Craft and Training Technician duty assignments on September 17, 2017. The monetary portion of the award, the ripple effect, and the dispute over the Training Technician jobs posted for application remained unresolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This settlement agreement resolves those outstanding settlement issues.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI congratulate Clerk Craft Director Lamont Brooks and everyone involved in the success of this case,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cIt is another important union victory in protecting Clerk Craft work and Clerk Craft jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis settlement agreement enforces the rightful gain of the 2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement Clerk Craft Jobs MOU which required the Postal Service to create an additional eight hundred (800) administrative and technical jobs to the APWU bargaining unit\u201d, stated Lamont Brooks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brooks further stated, \u201cIt also provides for a minimum of an additional fifty-four (54) newly created duty assignments, involving various government service, which is essential to expanding the craft work opportunities, as it relates to new products and services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The settlement agreement memorializes the \u201cripple effect\u201d issued by Goldberg dating back to August 1, 2013, grants out-of-schedule pay to the successful bidder or employees awarded the bids, make whole in pay levels differences, and a make whole remedy for PSE conversions to career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the highlights of this settlement agreement are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.    The monetary remedy for the Clerk Craft Jobs MOU will be administered at the national level. Within 14-days the USPS will provide the APWU with the list of employees who were awarded the HR Clerk and Training Technician duty assignments. This list will also include the successful bidders on subsequent vacancies up to an including PSE conversion.
2.    No later than 60 days the parties will identify the make-whole for those employees identified above.
3.    Any reversion grievances that were filed related to subsequent vacancies will be processed in accordance with Article 15. The parties at the national level will identify the appropriate payee and monetary remedy based on cases adjudicated in the Union\u2019s favor.
4.    In accordance with Article 19 within 90 days, the USPS will create new Clerk Craft job descriptions and qualification standards related to handling various government services.
5.    The USPS will establish and post a minimum of 54 new duty assignments as agreed to in #4 above by 9\/31\/22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would like to thank Assistant Clerk Division Director Lynn Pallas-Barber who was the officer assigned to the initial dispute, Assistant Clerk Division Director Sam Lisenbe, and Michael Barrett of the Buffalo Area Local for their valuable assistance,\u201d stated Clerk Division Director, Lamont Brooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n