Mark Oliver et al -- "Seriously, it took NRLCA 9 days to respond to this [ USPS's Colin letter ]?
-- Where as the NALC contract ( Article 8.5.G ) does limit full time carriers to no more than 12 hours of work in one day and no more than 60 hours in a service week, the NRLCA has no such wording aside from how to be paid for work over 12 hours in one day in Article 9.2.....
-- An NALC Step 4 ruled the 12- and 60-hour limits are absolute - except for December.
-- The NRLCA Step 4 does limit manglement scheduling leave replacements to evaluated work hours of 12 or more hours in a single day -- but there is no guarantee the leave replacement can complete the evaluated work in 12 hours.
-- Apparently both parties are willing to overlook ( ignore ) the ELM's Section 432.32 says in part:
- employees may not be required to work more than 12 hours in 1 service day. ....may not be extended over a period of 12 consecutive hours. ( maybe carriers should start calling the office: - Hey, I've reached 11.5 hours for the day and it will take awhile to get back to the office and I certainly don't want you to be in violation of the ELM's 432.32. So, supervisor, what do you what me to do? )
-- The Colin letter is similar to that time when LLVs started to be used for Sunday parcel delivery. Bean counters in one area were amazed / alarmed at the sudden increase in LLV mileage!
-- What did the USPS expect when RCAs were increasingly used to do parcel runs everyday? Certainly the inability of the USPS to hire more RCAs, ARCs, and HARCs will not get mentioned.
-- Dead Horse Time: Past-President Dwyer did send 2 letters to the then PMG Brennan regarding rural carriers working in the dark. The PMG's response letters must have gotten lost in the mails as Dwyer never heard back ( 2018 State of the Union address ) - and carrier continue to work in the dark ( literally ).
-- Back to resolution writing time for the next contract: include some wording like the NALC's regarding 12 hours of work in a single day.
