Remedy for disparate treatment

[U caught my attention]

Maybe rcas in the office should file on no adjustments.
Isnt aux route creation in their best interest?

Is there any language that dictates how aux territory is distributed? Can they make a bunch of sad tiny aux routes or one big beautiful aux that is close to a regular route?

 

[oi veh.]

@RammerJammer - i am going to change this over to general discussion, as there does not seem to be a definitive answer (much as there should be).

p.s. keep going back and forth with dom. he has a good mind for parsing everything out in minute detail. as does @U caught my attention.

 

[RammerJammer]

Maybe rcas in the office should file on no adjustments.
Isnt aux route creation in their best interest?

Is there any language that dictates how aux territory is distributed? Can they make a bunch of sad tiny aux routes or one big beautiful aux that is close to a regular route?

You hit the nail on the head. Relief carriers stand to benefit the most if overburdened routes are timely cut. Unfortunately they don’t seem to want to ruffle management’s feathers and just lay down & accept whatever USPS chooses to do. That’s where the union if they really had any weight should step in and demand route cuts to create more regular/aux routes. We also have had regular routes with carriers out on OWCP for way more than 2 yrs. The union should to able to get access to such information and enforce the pertinent contract because who else is going to be an advocate for subs waiting to go regular?

 

[RammerJammer]

Protection from auto adjust was what I was talking about. Going all in on auto adjustments might be bad in certain situations.
I assumed the grievance procedure for adjustments was a safer mechanism to take into account route specifics.
Just one example is getting hit hard with volume and then loosing that volume, resulting in an overburdened route award only because that heavy volume didnt get washed away yet.

When they get a whim to do route adjustments, they couldn’t care less about the circumstances of your route. If on the date they looked your route was on the list, chop chop. You could be a 35H forever and after a recent mms come out 55:48 and that’s all they would look at if they’re in the mood to cut.

 

[U caught my attention]

they couldn’t care less about the circumstances of your route.

You are right, management doesnt care.

 

[Shannonboy]

10 years-ish to retire. I have 100% been wronged and felt angry about the unfair nature of the evaluated system.
I wont go into details. I still cant talk out loud about it without getting all emotional and bitter. Best to leave it in the past.
The real fun part.....I suspect this particular scenerio might show up again.
Nothing to be done.....its all by contract.
I desperately () try to stay grateful about this job regardless of the blows that come along with it.

I hear ya U caught....I got 8 years left, and it cant come quick enough.

 

[Dominator]

What is the exact language on route adjustment timeliness? Let's see if we can come up with a solution!

 

[neciat]

What is the exact language on route adjustment timeliness? Let's see if we can come up with a solution!

I love it !!!! The reason you ask this is because you know there isn't any language , specific , vague, general or otherwise , that even remotely addresses the time frame(s) for route adjustments. It's the same with the 'ole "you are not regular in attendance" rhetoric. What's THAT definition ? Can one miss one day a week ? LWOP every Saturday ? With 52 weeks in a year and someone with 65 A/L days uses one day of A/L each week is he / she NOT regular in attendance ? Or, how 'bout the employee that does have 65 days of leave carried over AND then gets their leave fronted at the beginning of the leave year so now he /she has A/L days numbering in the 80s and receives the "not regular in attendance" speech or L.O.W. because he/she called in sick twice ? Seems to me if someone has THAT amount of leave, he /she is MORE than "regular in attendance". At any rate , perhaps.................just perhaps , someone somewhere will take note of all of this and engage in a relentless mission to have language regarding specific time lines outlined in our next National Agreement. Heck, with the way "they" MOU all kinds of stuff, why not a MOU addressing this topic especially since the RRECS system isn't functioning as we were told, sold, and as it was designed ?

 

[Dominator]

Throw this in an 8191 box 4:

On matters of interpretation, what factors and elements are exhaustively considered by management when identifying and determining whether a route has been untimely adjusted?