There is a Step 4 Grievance on mgmt requiring Regs to work other routes & Sundays. The only option is to file or risk Direct Order discipline.
No, you are NOT missing ANYTHING !!! It is management that is being insubordinate. Whether it is this MOU or anything in anyone of the handbooks, manuals, Step 4s, etc. , the aforementioned ARE the instructions, guidelines and procedures to which to adhere. With respect to this MOU and the National Agreement as well as any Step 4, the decision(s) and agreement(s) were made WAY above any local management's step and pay grade. These decision(s) and agreement(s) ARE the orders. Myself, you or anyone else CANNOT be wrong until management is correct. One could very legitimately argue that it is immoral to blatantly disregard a signed agreement.
I think it’s very immoral to mandate work without even having an idea of what the compensation for that work would be. There’s no guideline for what fair/accurate compensation should/would be when a regular is working another route and finding out after the work is completed sounds super shady.
I don't know how most people are interpreting the July 20th statement on Rural Carrier Safety but it sure seems the NRLCA was giving everyone the way out. They encouraged it to be spread far and wide, so even non-members would know about it. To me it boils down to filling out a 1767 and going home whenever they violate this. It says "consider" filing a grievance, which sounds to me, secondary to citing safety and going home.
So true, they have zero concern & respect for the NRLCA because they are like the "Little Boy Who Cried Wolf". Nothing more ever happens than the NRLCA filing a Grievance (which the USPS pretty much ignores), The USPS may finally react to the violation at some point without penalties. While they continue violating our contract in a different area. The NRLCA are constantly chasing their tail with filing grievances with no teeth for contractual violations.
That may work in some places. Other places will basically ignore you, continue the mandate, and deal with the consequences(which will probably be ZERO).This is why carriers need to learn to file an 8191 without DR help. ""You need to carry another route (insert responsible, hardworking carrier name here)!". Carrier, "I didn't volunteer". PM, "Its a direct order!". Carrier, "Ok, can you please print me out a 8191 and a copy of the MOU from Aug 4, 2022, or I could just use the one on my phone, Thanks!" Then I'd proceed doing my route duties until I was done, on my way out, I'd check with said PM/Management and ask if they printed what I requested. If so, game on! Lets FIGHT! If not, I go home. They entire time, I'm making notes on my phone of all interactions with management and anyone that may have witnessed or overheard any conversations. If you are like this with ANY issues, management with realize they cant bully or take advantage of you. I've been doing this for over 10 years, sometimes I feel bullet proof. Example, the Form 4015A that management made some carriers sign a few weeks ago so they would use annual if they had 2080 issues, I just grabbed it and walked out, haven't heard a peep in three weeks.
So this says they "have processed literally thousands of grievences" about this issue,
The timeline I followed went like this. In March the NRLCA said the Postal Service refused to extend the MOU, so it expired 3/25. NRLCA comes out with the Rural Carrier Safety document in July. In August the NRLCA says the MOU is back in effect 8/7. They said "...by agreeing to the MOU below, we believe this will help to shut down the Postal Service’s improper practice of forcing regular carriers to work other routes and deliver packages on Sundays and provide some much needed relief to the many overworked RCAs." The NRLCA did not say why the Postal Service reversed its March decision. Or I missed it.
I listened to Mike Caref. He is a Business Agent for the NALC in Chicago. Not sure what our equivalent to a BA is. He was talking about how they are trying to get around "following instructions" as they put it. They are toying with the idea that any instruction to a carrier who is clocked out is not to be followed. Sounds like a tough one. So a CCA comes in after 12 hours, has to do his end of shift duties and get clocked out before a supervisor finds them and instructs them to take 2 more hours of work back out?
No you get your overtime Rate which can be less than 150 percent if you work over your evaluation, and, or, carry Xdays
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There was a Step 4 filed after this Document was released allowing VOLUNTEERS. The Step 4 is on mgmt forcing carriers regardless of “volunteering“. Any Regular being voluntold should be filing on it. The grievance will be held in abeyance until the Step 4 is resolved.
with kindergarteners? shouldn't have to argue that with anyone..
