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Trenton Metro Area Local American Postal Workers Union AFL-CIO
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Phone Numbers, Forms & Links
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Employees Assistance Program 1-800-EAP-4-YOU _______________ _______________ Local's Attorney
Local's Accountant Mark Lavinsky, CPA _______________ From The Past New Building POAC Updates from the past _________________ Conventions 2009 NJ State APWU April 6 - April 8, 2009 Bally's Resorts Atlantic City, NJ _________________ _________________ Clerk Issues Motor Vehicle Issues _________________ _________________ CSRS and FERS Handbook for Personnel and Payroll Offices _________________
Arbitrator rules in favor of the local union in the 370 Trucks subcontracting grievance from the Trenton VMF. He awards $ 336,938.00 to the Trenton VMF bargaining unit. Read award _________________
New Federal Employee Health Benefits Rates
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Enjoy your Fourth of July Holiday & please be safe
FFS Update, currently plans are to begin installing the first of 3 machines in January 2010,
Please take 30 seconds and go to this site and vote in this poll. Although this isn’t exactly a scientific poll these are the types of online polls that NBC often quotes in their news headlines
District Managers will be adding a focus to the discontinuance of operations by reviewing all classified stations and branches in Level 24 and above post office (see enclosure) . These offices have experienced serious volume, transaction, and revenue declines . The Postal Service will be using the current procedures that are in place for studying the activities of an office for possible discontinuance.
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September 12, 2009 V. F. W. POST 491Oak LaneYARDVILLE, NJ _____________________________
Information on remaining a live bidder, bidding phone number. _____________________________
Download 2009 APWU Leave Chart
2009 Pay Days
June 12 and 26 2009 July 10 and 24, 2009 _____________________________
APWU Upcoming Holidays
Fourth of July; July 4, 2009 Holiday period is July 2, 3 & 4, 2009 Holiday Schedule is required to be posted by June 23, 2009
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_____________________________ No Layoff Clause
Attached is the
USPS response to the APWU’s position that the APWU MOU on the No Layoff Clause
continuing to apply to employees excessed from an APWU bargaining unit to
another Union’s bargaining unit that has not negotiated a similar provision.
The USPS as you can see disagrees that no layoff protection follows the employee and argues that layoff protection is predicated on which Collective Bargaining Agreement the employee is covered by at the time of a layoff. Mike Gallagher _____________________________
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Get a copy of Article 12 Excessing: Collective Bargaining Agreement Enforcement of the Process A Study in Strategy and Tactics By Jeff Kehlert, NBA Email your name and local or other info
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Trenton Metro Members must act now!! Click here to send a message to your Representative
Support
Growing for H.R. 22 _____________________________
Central New Jersey District is Closing District Compression a good thing for those who screwed APWU members in excessing, tour compression and other career impacts.
All of 085, 086 & 087 to go under South Jersey District
Monmouth P&DC to go under South Jersey District
Six districts to close, 1,400 supervisor jobs cut Postal
Service Continues Aggressive Steps to Cut Costs Closing administrative offices, eliminating positions, offering early retirements Alert It has come to the attention of the union that management is placing employees on Stand BY Time when they are working. The union has uncovered several supervisors engaging this totally improper /fraudulent conduct. These supervisors are falsifying time keeping records. Management has the right when no mail or work available to instruct employees to go to a designated area and be ready to assume normal work activities as needed and directed by the supervisor. _____________________________
The New Rate is 55.5 cents per mile for privately own vehicles _____________________________
On December 31, 2008 the court granted the NPMHU’s motion to intervene, but denied the motion for relief. We have been advised
by our Attorney that the Court’s ruling today allowing the Mailhandlers to
intervene before the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals will not take place
until one (1) year or longer from Judge Pisano’s ruling of 12/31/08.
In the meantime, the clerks will continue to maintain jurisdiction,
leaving in place the current staffing on the FSM 100.
No matter what kind of spin the Mailhandlers put on Judge Pisano’s ruling today, clerks will continue to perform the work, as the Mailhandlers “failed to demonstrate good cause under Rule 60(b) to vacate the Court’s May 28 and July 22 Orders denying their motion”. AFSM 100 Update - Read the full story _____________________________
Union
Files Second ‘Dispute’ Over Two-Tour Initiative2
USPS Two Tour Operation Initiative Reduction or Elimination of Existing Day Shift Position/Employees By Greg Bell All Clerk Stewards Must Read This
Tour
Compression/Two Tour Initiative Previous Posted Tour Compression info/reports
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Flat Sequence System Deployment / Installation Begins October 2009
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Early Info on the FSS Source APWU
The most recent addition to the Automation stable is a workhorse called the Flat Sorter Sequencer (FSS). This new, large piece of equipment will be deployed for the first time later this year. The schedule calls for 100 FSS machines to be in operation by the end of 2010. There may be even more after that. Anyone who remembers working on an LSM (Letter Sorting Machine) will recognize similarities with the FSS. The mail is inserted into a slot in a cart; at the bottom of the cart, a slot-door opens that drops the piece into the appropriate bin. The preventative-maintenance route is certain to include checking for open cart doors. For many there will be some deja vu. The 360-bin FSS is divided into four logical units of 90 bins each. The automatic feed will process as many as 17,000 flats per hour through the FSS. The Postal Service intends for the FSS to walk-sequence flat mail, and to have it run the same as a two-pass DBCS (Delivery Bar Code Sorter). The FSS machines will be deployed in multiples of two, three, four, or even five machines to an office. Most facilities already have made or are in the process of making floor space available. The latest schedule shows Bulk Mail Centers in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New Jersey to be first in line for FSS deployment. Increased Number of ETs As far as the Maintenance Division is concerned, the additional FSS capability will increase the number of ETs in each office. While it will vary from office to office, you can expect up to 15 additional ETs for the first FSS. Additional machines will require more ETs, just not as many. The effect on the number of MPE employees is not known at this time, but both MPEs and ETs will require six weeks of training at the National Center for Employee Development in Norman, OK. ETs will then spend an additional five weeks of training in Norman. We will keep you posted on our negotiations with the Postal Service over the fine points of training for the FSS deployment.
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few tidbits you need to know once you have been injured on duty:
Recommendations for Family Medical Leave Documentation:
By
Sandy Schleher, Clerk Craft Director
Family Leave Coordinator
Trenton
Metro Area Local
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inquiries, it’s necessary to remind everyone about the three day
waiting period you must endure when suffering a work related injury. Injuries that result from work activity occurring over
more than one day, occupational injuries, have a three-day waiting
period before OWCP wage loss compensation will be paid. The employee
must be in a non-pay status for the first three days. No leave
may be used, but if the inability to work exceeds fourteen
calendar days, compensation will be paid for any wage loss during the
three-day waiting period. These rules are unchanged. Thanks to President Bush signing the “Postal
Accountability and Enhancement Act” into law, as of December 20, 2006,
there is now a three day waiting period before continuation of pay (COP)
is paid for traumatic injuries. Traumatic injuries occur in a single day
or shift. This new rule applies to USPS employees only. During the first three-day period of a traumatic injury, you may choose to use annual leave, sick leave or leave without pay. If the disability exceeds fourteen days, or is followed by permanent disability, any leave that was used will be restored, if LWOP was used, the employee will be paid. |
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Articles
Ventilation Filtration System VFS
By Gary Kloepfer
Installed in Trenton P&DC Main Office Window
Which Re-Hab or District employee will scab our work?
Could this be the first grievance when the building reopens?
The following information is provided to assist locals
in documenting Administrative Leave grievances.
12/60
Work Limitations and the
Appropriate Remedy for Exceeding the Ceiling