Expectations for New Contract

[Montana406]

I heard months ago from my district rep that one of the main areas where we are going to see positive change is in the realm of POV compensation. They are going to be trying to implement additional financial incentives for POV compensation in addition to EMA as it has been for decades. I heard that it has dawned on higher ups that the POV dilemma is the biggest reason for the long term hiring crunch on the rural craft.

 

[She mails rural]

I heard from a city union person today that said nrlca is wanting to have the same contract as the city craft which obviously the only thing we have in common is flats and letters so I think that makes no sense. I just wonder if that happens they are giving us the city wages as well? I think NOT! we will be hounded to death everyday get out get back clock out do this only not that etc. All that better be a great wage! Hourly wage at that point.

 

[Male.mailman]

I know, I edit it and at the end of the day it has gone back to the original wrong number. The edits aren't saving.

Had the same problem. A sub goofed my mileage so now I just go with it and adjust each day, but it's officially over 100K miles when the actual odometer reads 12,000 something.

 

[btdtret]

She mail route et al -- "I heard from a city union person today that said nrlca is wanting to have the same contract as the city craft which obviously the only thing we have in common is flats and letters so I think that makes no sense. "

-- Way back when, like in the early 1970s, all of the postal unions negotiated together with the USPS. Somewhere along the years, the NRLCA figured it could do better on its own. Look how that has turned out over the years!

-- One could say the NRLCA got the same package as the APWU ( two-tier pay system ) thanks to Arbitrator Clarke. Maybe that could be the precedent for getting the NALC pay package. (probably not)

-- Another point to ponder. Why hasn't the NRLCA affiliated with the AFL-CIO, like the other postal unions?

- Is that the reason why the NRLCA is specifically mentioned in a 1995 MOU between the USPS and the NALC regarding cross-craft provisions of the Article 7.2? It only applies to the crafts covered by the 1978 National Agreement i.e. letter carrier, clerk, motor vehicle, maintenance, and mail handler. So cross-craft assignments may be made between the carrier craft and these other crafts, in either direction, in accordance with Article 7.2. However, rural letter carriers are not included. So cross-craft assignments to and from the rural carrier craft may not be made under Article 7.2. They may be made only in "emergency situations"..

 

[U caught my attention]

we will be hounded to death everyday get out get back clock out do this only not that etc.

This isn't directed at you specifically. Your statement just made my thought process go this way.

We personally push ourselves to get done as fast as we can everyday. Skipping lunches and breaks. They pile more and more on us and we get it done in less time. We do this at the deterioration of our own time standards over many years of arbitrated contracts. We are now WILLINGLY agreeing to work other routes beyond our own and most likely doing it all in undertime. We are super employees that management doesn't have to hassel because we over-perform and decrease our own standards all on our own.
We are an embarrassment to organized labor when we are actively performing to counteract any gains we might get in negotitions.

 

[U caught my attention]

My point is, if management would tell city side to do 10 hours of volume in 8 hours by working smarter and faster, they would tell them to pound salt. They also wouldn't skip lunches and breaks to get it all done at a reasonable hour. They have retained their higher time standards over the years.
I am jealous.

 

[Sunofa]

I heard from a city union person today that said nrlca is wanting to have the same contract as the city craft which obviously the only thing we have in common is flats and letters so I think that makes no sense. I just wonder if that happens they are giving us the city wages as well? I think NOT! we will be hounded to death everyday get out get back clock out do this only not that etc. All that better be a great wage! Hourly wage at that point.

Hourly is better than getting paid less than the hours we work. And we can work safer. All the extra time doing scans and cleaning out boxes, deviations, and traffic we don't get paid for. All the stand up talks and questions, calling our personal phones, and homework we have to do. I am too old to have so much job stress right now, that I never had before. I believe it is a young persons job.