On December 6, 2011, NAPUS President Bob Rapoza and League President Mark Strong met with Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and agreed to re-open Postmaster pay talks. This agreement was reached in the midst of the selection of a fact-finding panel from a list of panelist received from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. If no agreement is reached by the January 27, 2012 deadline, the fact-finding process will resume.
Presidents of both Postmaster organizations continue to meet with postal leaders to request the establishment of a RIF-avoidance process that offers VER’s and incentives (including adding years of service) for retirement eligible employees. Every effort is being made to get this issue resolved by the end of this year. Additional information will be posted on the NAPUS website as soon as it becomes available.
For more on these two developing stories, please check President Rapoza’s Update.
NAPUS and League Presidents are scheduled to meet with legal counsel next week to continue discussions on how to proceed on renewing a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission concerning the Postal Service’s Final Rule, which became effective on December 1, 2011. The rule created changes to the PO-101, ASM, POM and ELM, which allows for the conversion of post offices to stations or branches. The rule also allows a post office to be staffed by someone other than a Postmaster and for Postmaster to serve in more than one post office. See details and chronology of events concerning the Final Rule decision by linking to the December 2, 2011 Breaking News story on the NAPUS website.
On December 10, 2011 Postal Headquarters issued a letter to all Area Vice Presidents, directing them to temporarily suspend all current or planned actions to convert post offices to stations or branches, until further notice. The directive also instructed field managers to stop any permanent staffing changes in post offices until instructions are distributed by Headquarters.
Charlie Moser
December 9, 2011
source: NAPUS– Discussions Continue with Postal Headquarters on Voluntary Early Retirements (VERs) and Incentives for Retirement Eligible Employees
Were not sorry.
I see the APWU is putting out a public were (so sorry)
Who’s next? United States President, Congress, HQ, PMG. all you Vice Presidents and managers?
Are you? (SO SORRY) too?
Where is the money coming from for the PM retirement package???? give me no penalties and I’m gone in a flash!!!Keep the $$ go ahead give them more $$ to do nothing… I say give the carriers an out and let the morons deliver the mail they know so much about.. They haven’t a clue! let’s see them deliver 700 homes in 6 hours!! SCREW THEM!!
the post office can not afford to give us old vets an early out. then they would have to go out and hire a bunch of casuals to replace us. i see just enough mail to keep people busy for 8 hours so management is lying when they say they don’t have enough mail. they aren’t working it only counting it and if anyone needs to have a job excessed is those people who have these made up jobs getting 70 grand a year when they can have an extra person do it everyday. or they should make the line managers do it instead of standing around talking for hours harrassing the workers and joking it up with their friends while watching you and if you talk to your COWORKER they tell you while talking to their friends to shut up and go back to work. the only reason people put up with this mess is because of the pay and bonuses if it were not for that the whole work force would be casuals because they wouldn’t be able to keep permanent people around for less pay and put up with their BS. i know management would never make it in private industry (fired before the 3 months are up) so they should stop wishing for it. they think they stuff they do is cute. NOT. and they would soon find out, their skills and game playing are not transferable.
F all these EAS asswipes.
Mojo you are totally correct. PMs and MPOOS are increasing route deliveries by eliminating route due to volume decline. The decline is not in junk mail as it has increased. Carriers leave at 10;00-11;00 clock due to receiving mail late from processing office.. Late leaving expected to be back on time without any regard as to leaving late and percent of delivers with mail. Delivering mail at nite is dangerous. Overtime is good even though one maynot be on overtime list.
Yeah. Figures all the talk is for PM’s and not for craft, the people who actually deserve it for puuting up with the BS the managers and supervisors have been dishing out! Give us all enough to retire and then just turn off the lights and ,leave the buildings to all the homeless people out there!
I want to get in on the action! (including adding years of service)
$50K & 5 YRS..Up front , l’ll play my guitar too 🙂
“On December 10, 2011 Postal Headquarters issued a letter to all Area Vice Presidents, directing them to temporarily suspend all current or planned actions to convert post offices to stations or branches, until further notice. The directive also instructed field managers to stop any permanent staffing changes in post offices until instructions are distributed by Headquarters”?
Or is it more like until instructions are distributed by Congress?
One or the other cant have both- Vice Pres. or field managers. Your way to Top Heavy- IMO!!!!!
I’d be cutting management jobs like butter and FAST!
I need to add 3 years to make it worth my while I could care less about 5-10-even 15 grand after taxes. By adding almost 6% I can add 25k in just 3 years outside 4.
That way they can save their cash, they are going to need it!!!
The hard part is getting everyone to the table especially that Congressional bunch of $phonies.
if they give VER to just PM’s and management , then we will have one hell of a walkout, sick out, we will have a disaster, no doubt, if the scum who intimidated us and were abusive towards us get to walk, a pound of flesh will be taken.
And Cliff the Faggot Goofey of APWU shame, still does nothing for his members, your finished you piece of crap !, you and your faggot Business agents, all your crap between you and them was it not robert the skunk who said how great the CBA was, we are going to leave the APWU in droves, no VER for APWU, no frigging union !
The craft need the VER, why is it that scum who were morons and abusive, who had to have sex with anything to move up, or party till dawn, abusive dead pigs, and they get VER?, where is that pig crap Cliff Goofball APWU million dollar man, all you pigs deserve to be slaughtered, you cannot taste any worse than a pig, we can eat your carcasses, and soon.
How about 10 cents worth of licorice.
How about PMs that have 35 years but are only 53?
How about an early out for carriers, who PM’s have been forcing overtime, increasing route sizes and bullying/harassing for years? After all, the PM’s always seem to think the carriers are not doing enough: ultimately, the perfect opportunity for the PM’s to get out and carry some routes the way they always have said they should be done.