Unpaid extra miles from S&DC

Good Ole Greg · 2026-05-10T15:02:26-0500

Last October, they moved us to what they called an S&DC. Really, they just built an addition onto a city office.

Anyway, about 15 of the routes now have 10 more miles for their round trip every day. I was one of the few whose miles went down, so it benefited me. But when we moved the new evaluations that started last October did not reflect the additional mileage.

I advised my coworkers to start a petition for a class action grievance. The manager promised the evaluations would be fixed and they would receive backpay from when we moved. A couple of my coworkers called the district rep and claim they were told not to worry the evaluations would be fixed and they would be paid just like the manager claimed.

Fast forward, one of my coworkers got tired of waiting and filed a grievance a couple months ago. Now the district rep has amnesia and says she never said that and that the grievance is withdrawn and the carriers have no claim because they should have filed route disputes at that time.

The mileage has been fixed on this past evaluations. Funny, people are being paid even less now and driving more. But I feel they are owed probably a couple thousand each for that period. I thought pay issues didn't have the 14 day limit.

RammerJammer · 2026-05-10T17:20:33-0500

Yep it’s a hard thing to take when you find out you can’t trust the word of a union rep. Similar thing happened to our office with first mms results. We weren’t credited as a withdrawal office. Steward stated on several occasions she was filing a class action on it and we didn’t need to dispute individually. She soon retired and I found out she never filed anything on it and it was also too late to file for failure to represent.

neciat · 2026-05-10T17:54:16-0500

RammerJammer said:
Yep it’s a hard thing to take when you find out you can’t trust the word of a union rep. Similar thing happened to our office with first mms results. We weren’t credited as a withdrawal office. Steward stated on several occasions she was filing a class action on it and we didn’t need to dispute individually. She soon retired and I found out she never filed anything on it and it was also too late to file for failure to represent.

That's messed up !!! One thing you or anyone in the office could have done was make the appropriate APWU representative aware that the rural carriers in your office were performing clerk work. The records reflect you WERE NOT a withdrawal office so that would mean the clerks SHOULD be bringing you mail. There are a few other ways to have countered that but this would have brought some attention to the matter.