{"id":2323,"date":"2017-06-08T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2017-06-09T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T14:51:15","slug":"apwu-wins-another-national-level-arbitration-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"APWU Wins Another National Level Arbitration Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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06\/07\/2017<\/span> - <\/span>The APWU scores another victory today, defending postal employees in the union\u2019s bargaining unit. Arbitrator Goldberg issued an award<\/a><\/span> in a national-level case over what remedy was due for the Postal Service\u2019s failure to staff \u2018POStPlan\u2019 offices following an original award on September 5, 2014<\/a> and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)<\/a> negotiated afterward.<\/p>\n

The APWU and the Postal Service agreed that after December 22, 2014, the \u2018POStPlan\u2019 Remotely-Managed Post Offices (RMPOs) open 4 or 6 hours a day would be staffed with bargaining unit clerks, as well as replace Postal Support Employees (PSEs) in Level 18 offices with career employees. Long after the agreement, Postmaster Reliefs (PMRs) were still working in 4 or 6 hour RMPOs across the country and Level 18 offices reported still using PSEs instead of career employees.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service admitted to their widespread violations of the \u2018POStPlan\u2019 MOU. Arbitrator Goldberg held that the USPS owed the bargaining unit for all the hours improperly worked by PMRs and PSEs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an important award for the protection and expansion of Clerk Craft work,\u201d said President Dimondstein. \u201cThis keeps management\u2019s feet to the fire, holding them to the agreements they make with the APWU.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough it was another great win for the APWU, the Postal Service\u2019s continual willingness to blatantly violate the contract indicates a serious problem with the integrity of Postal Service management that together we must continue to address\u201d said Clerk Craft Director Clint Burelson.<\/p>\n

Arbitrator Goldberg held that the Postal Service must make whole all postal employees in the Clerk Craft bargaining unit who were denied craft work as a result of the USPS\u2019 failure to follow the POStPlan MOU.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch thanks goes to Assistant Clerk Craft Director Lynn Pallas Barber, who served as the case officer for the grievance,\u201d Burleson stated. \u201cAlso to Assistant Craft Director Lamont Brooks, Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman and attorneys Mindy Holmes and Jason Veny.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source: APWU Wins Another National Level Arbitration Award | APWU<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arbitrator Goldberg found USPS violated \u2018POStPlan\u2019 MOU\u00a006\/07\/2017 – The APWU scores another victory today, defending postal employees in the union\u2019s bargaining unit. Arbitrator Goldberg issued an award in a national-level case over what remedy was due for the Postal Service\u2019s failure to staff \u2018POStPlan\u2019 offices following an original award on September 5, 2014 and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) negotiated afterward.The APWU and the Postal Service agreed that after December 22, 2014, the \u2018POStPlan\u2019 Remotely-Managed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apwu73.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}