Additional Benefits For Members
I am pleased to announce that the American Income Life Insurance Company has agreed to provide our local’s members with $4000 of accidental death and dismemberment Insurance at no cost to the local or its members and discounts on vision and hearing care. Members are advised that the our local does not endorse any of American Income Life Insurance Company’s programs or products.
Fredric Jacobs
President
California State Convention
The California State Convention will be held on May 18 and 19, 2013 in San Jose California.
Forty Clerks Scheduled To Be Excessed Receive Cancellation Notices
On September 4, 2012, 40 junior clerks in the Oakland Bid Cluster were advised that they were going to be excessed outside of their craft/installation. However, due to attrition, they were notified on February 6, 2013, that the excessing event had been closed and that they would remain in the Oakland installation.
Unions and Customers to Rally to Save PO
In March 18, 2013, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe will be speaking at The National Postal Forum in San Francisco in Mascone West at 10:00am. The Save The Peoples Post Office Coalition along with APWU, NPMHU, and NALC locals will join in a rally starting at 9:15am, to welcome PMG Donahoe to San Francisco. Customers will welcome him also.
PSE, You Might Be Eligible For Unemployment Benefits
When Injured On The Job Seminar
On February 28, 2006 – a date which will live in infamy – 27 injured San Diego Post Office employees were informed when they reported to work that their Limited Duty Rehabilitation Assignments had been terminated. Their ID badges were confiscated, and they were escorted out of the facility by management. This could happen to you!
Join us for the Seminar Things You Should Know If Injured At Work
Sunday, March 10. 2013 at 10am, 7901 Oakport Street, Suite 2300, Oakland, CA 94621
NTFT Duty Assignments and Required Overtime
The CBA Memorandum regarding Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) Duty Assignments, Overtime Rule 1, prohibits management from requiring full-time career clerk and motor vehicle craft employees who are not on the Overtime Desired List (ODL) and are in an installation with employees working NTFT duty assignments in the same Functional area, to work overtime except in an emergency. Accordingly, all clerk and motor vehicle craft employees who are assigned to the Oakland P&DC (a Function 1 Mail Processing area), regardless of tour or section, should not be required to work overtime except in an emergency. In the motor vehicle craft, employees may also be required to work overtime in the event of unforeseeable circumstances (e.g., PVS drivers stuck in traffic, weather conditions).
An emergency is defined as “an unforeseen circumstance or a combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action in a situation which is not expected to be of a recurring nature.” (Article 3, Emergency Situations, CBA)
If you are a non – ODL Oakland P&DC clerk or motor vehicle craft employee, and have been required to work overtime and an emergency situation did not exist, you should contact you steward.
NTFT Duty Assignments and Overtime
OAKLAND LOCAL FILES COMPLAINT WITH OSHA
MAINTENANCE CRAFT NEWS
Arbitration on Subcontracting of MailBox Work has Concluded.
It took over 4000 documents and 3 days of hearing for the parties to present their cases. After the parties have presented their post hearing brief to the arbitrator, a decision should be issued in approximately 60 days.