Know Your LMOU
The National Agreement is not always the last word when it comes to the rules that regulate our daily work lives. Article 30 of the agreement allows for local unions to bargain with management on 20 specific items and that local agreement - known as the Local Memorandum of Understanding (LMOU) - will be the deciding factor on how those items are handled. Our union's LMOU has been in effect since 1998.
Periodically, different provisions of the LMOU will be posted here for your information. If you'd like your own copy of the LMOU, just click here or ask any steward.
Here's an often-misquoted provision of the LMOU that deals with the order of movement:
The order of movement of people outside the bid assignment area will be as follows:
- Casuals
- Employees from other crafts
- Part-Time Flexible employees
- Employees on overtime who do not have a bid assignment in the area, by juniority
- Employees on straight time who do not have a bid assignment in the area, by juniority
- Employees on overtime who have a bid assignment in the area, by juniority
- Employees on straight time have a bid assignment in the area: The senior Mail Handler, if available, will have the option of accepting the reassignment. If they do not volunteer, juniority will be used, i.e., when mail handlers have the same duty assignment(s) within the same area, but have different start times, seniority shall begin as soon as the mail handlers begins his/her tour (BT) and shall be subject to the order of movement listed in this section.