Union, Management Clarify Order of Movement

Some mail handlers were concerned about the order of movement for the relief jobs. They thought that management would be moving people who bid on the relief positions as freely as they would PTF’s and casuals. But management clarified that movement is now and will continue to be based on mail volume. If volume is light in any particular area, the junior person working in that area will be moved. It doesn’t matter if that mail handler is holding down a regular bid job or one of the new relief jobs. Order of movement is based on mail volume – not bid job.

Management said it has yet to decide on whether relief mail handlers will report to a specific SDO or an MDO. Or they may report to the SDO in the area they’re working in on any particular day.

Earlier in the day Bill Hanna told the union he was posting a correction to the mail-handler relief jobs on Tour 2. The job listing showed that all of the relief jobs had to report at 11:55 a.m. on Saturday. That is not the case. Seven of the jobs do not have a different start time on Saturday.

The union also asked management to allow mail handlers to swap their drop days on an as-needed basis. If, for example, John was running out of annual and needed a particular day off, he could swap his drop day with Mary for that week only. The two mail handlers would simply present two Change of Schedule requests to the MDO. Senior Plant Manager Judy Herrick said she couldn’t see why an MDO wouldn’t honor the requests.