USPS report

[Gotrope]

This is great. Misses the facts by a mile. The reason sick leave has exploded is because the labor options are miserable. If you have no bodies, you won't approve leave.

Audit Finds Postal Employee ‘Availability’ Slipping; Calls on USPS to Tighten Controls

The Postal Service employee “availability” percentage—the share of scheduled working hours that they are on the job versus on some type of leave—has

www.fedweek.com

 

[Worve]

Not to mention across the nation many employees are aging out. Many are choosing to get surgeries etc done while they can be paid to be off. Add in the parcel volumes just growing and all crafts are impacted. Way to go cherry picking what data points to highlight and which too ignore as always.

 

[Surprise!]

Thank You for posting the above article. I believe it to represent a real danger to Postal Employees.

I think the article would be considered a creditable source while our response to it is not a creditable source.

This article does not tell us if the accident rate is going up. I suspect that it is but I have no way to check other than gut feeling.

I think we should ask the NRLCA leadership to respond to this article. Will they respond? I think it unlikely. However, if they refuse to respond we may show this refusal. If we assume a refusal and don't ask then they can't be shown to have betrayed the craft.

 

[Gotrope]

Thank You for posting the above article. I believe it to represent a real danger to Postal Employees.

I think the article would be considered a creditable source while our response to it is not a creditable source.

This article does not tell us if the accident rate is going up. I suspect that it is but I have no way to check other than gut feeling.

I think we should ask the NRLCA leadership to respond to this article. Will they respond? I think it unlikely. However, if they refuse to respond we may show this refusal. If we assume a refusal and don't ask then they can't be shown to have betrayed the craft.

USPS hides OSHA injuries better than a mob informant from the Gambino family.

 

[Gotrope]

Thank You for posting the above article. I believe it to represent a real danger to Postal Employees.

I think the article would be considered a creditable source while our response to it is not a creditable source.

This article does not tell us if the accident rate is going up. I suspect that it is but I have no way to check other than gut feeling.

I think we should ask the NRLCA leadership to respond to this article. Will they respond? I think it unlikely. However, if they refuse to respond we may show this refusal. If we assume a refusal and don't ask then they can't be shown to have betrayed the craft.

I would think Don would be happy to read between this articles idiocy and respond in media. He likes calling out stupid.

 

[Old Fart]

This is great. Misses the facts by a mile. The reason sick leave has exploded is because the labor options are miserable. If you have no bodies, you won't approve leave.

Audit Finds Postal Employee ‘Availability’ Slipping; Calls on USPS to Tighten Controls

The Postal Service employee “availability” percentage—the share of scheduled working hours that they are on the job versus on some type of leave—has

www.fedweek.com

Our offices must be out of the survey, as any illness lasting over three days consecutive, the employee is referred to HRSSC and medical department to approve leave. Our timekeepers get approval back from HR before indicating leave in the system. HR approves all medical documentation. This way, a local manager isn't responsible to determine what's acceptable and what's not.

 

[ATCBigE]

USPS hides OSHA injuries better than a mob informant from the Gambino family.

I was thinking that they hide it better Jimmy Hoffa's body got hidden or Ray Lewis's suit?

WHERE' S THE SUIT RAY?!?!?!?!?!

 

[K]

There has been a narrative being built for the last couple decades. People who don't touch mail increasingly demonize people who do. Thus you get the managers who say "discipline them for anything and everything, they are all pieces of and they are stealing from us" That is according to reports from multiple states that overheard a telecon. Just imagine the things that people who actually believe that statement, would be willing to do...

 

[Surprise!]

I would think Don would be happy to read between this articles idiocy and respond in media. He likes calling out stupid.

Only one way to put it to a test.

 

[ATCBigE]

How about an article about HOW MUCH LEAVE HAS BEEN DENIED?!?!?! Wonder which direction that has gone since 2019???

 

[oi veh.]

There has been a narrative being built for the last couple decades. People who don't touch mail increasingly demonize people who do. Thus you get the managers who say "discipline them for anything and everything, they are all pieces of and they are stealing from us" That is according to reports from multiple states that overheard a telecon. Just imagine the things that people who actually believe that statement, would be willing to do...

sounds like our MPOO.

 

[Gotrope]

Our offices must be out of the survey, as any illness lasting over three days consecutive, the employee is referred to HRSSC and medical department to approve leave. Our timekeepers get approval back from HR before indicating leave in the system. HR approves all medical documentation. This way, a local manager isn't responsible to determine what's acceptable and what's not.

West coast has a very different organization chart than most other areas. Most things are automated for mgmt. Other parts of the country have either had difficulty or refused to buy into USPS IV system. Mostly because they don't want to lose mgmt positions in less populated areas.

 

[Surprise!]

How about an article about HOW MUCH LEAVE HAS BEEN DENIED?!?!?! Wonder which direction that has gone since 2019???

Perhaps the NRLCA leadership needs to purchase the services of a high quality copy writer.

If the Postal Service uses arbitration to prevent it from being worth while for people to become RCA's, then claims it can't find personnel to take the job for less than the market will bear the shortage may be considered artificial.

 

[ATCBigE]

Perhaps the NRLCA leadership needs to purchase the services of a high quality copy writer.

If the Postal Service uses arbitration to prevent it from being worth while for people to become RCA's, then claims it can't find personnel to take the job for less than the market will bear the shortage may be considered artificial.

I know this 1st hand. 14 times job has been posted. Only 1 applicant on 14 times and he didn't take the job. So

 

[Gotrope]

Perhaps the NRLCA leadership needs to purchase the services of a high quality copy writer.

If the Postal Service uses arbitration to prevent it from being worth while for people to become RCA's, then claims it can't find personnel to take the job for less than the market will bear the shortage may be considered artificial.

We sorta did. Hired a former teamster organizer.

 

[U caught my attention]

But the rca's aren't working the hours. They are getting done early in order to get evaluation pay. Won't their hourly rate appear higher because of this?

 

[U caught my attention]

Don't carriers starting out step one table 2 make $24.00 per hour? Shouldn't RCA pay stay below this? Would a reasonable rca wage boost table two wages up?

 

[Worve]

Don't carriers starting out step one table 2 make $24.00 per hour? Shouldn't RCA pay stay below this? Would a reasonable rca wage boost table two wages up?

Correct for what table 2 step one makes, in order to not cause a huge uproar. They would need to increase starting wages across the board and up. Honestly and personally I am ok with subs making equal to step 2 table one wage wise. The gap will widen as years go by anyways 1% a year is not diddly squat of a raise.