St. Louis, EEO on those lead tech jobs, you can prove that the senior guys are the BEST QUALIFIED!!!

VMFs are the only installations authorized to hire from the street, sounds like you guys in St. Louis need to push for that to happen and fill those vacancies if the Ereassign has been exausted.

What a mess the St Louis VMF ha s become! Six Techs and just under 1000 vehicles have been moved. The VMF manager is promoting lead techs. with very little experience and senority. They are idividuals that he can play like a puppet. The manager is doing what he pleases with total disregard to the contract. Has anyone got a clue how the point system for lead techs is supposed to work? One of the supervisors reported that the people figuring the points did not know how to add so the manager had to correct the scores. What a joke! All of the people promoted are very junior individuals. Does seniority and experience have no bearing on promotions in the VMF? We have been hearing about a 20% reduction in force. Now the latest is 40%. Does seniority have any weight here? It does appear that hte VMF is being set-up for total failure. This makes since if the Post Office is going to contract all vehicle repairs. Where is the strong union influence in the Post Office? Has this also been broken? What other action is it going to take?

re:925- Pissed. I work at the NDC. We only take the spotters out on short trips. One of those audit teams took out our three over the road tractors because we weren't putting on any miles. The HCR contract I was referring to is local but, is too far for the spotters so the craft director said, "No go," on the bidding. I asked him about having the P&DC bid on it, but again he declined to even pass the word on to the craft director over there. Another line haul HCR dropped out of sight a week or two ago, Multi-Group, they were out of Chicago. Too bad, they had some of the best equipment of the bunch, new trailers too. Their trips got picked up by a long time HCR, Alan Richey.

   HCR's suck. Eagle Express in Columbus Ohio have had 2 Roll aways. We get fired for this..NOT HCR's. Our retired Fag sucked %&^& with hcr's. We got shit on. F-all hcr's and all scum bags in organizing. These people need to be banned from the APWU. They organize the piece of shits that replace us. Maybe they need to be replaced by HCR's and then see how they feel about hcr's in the union. I voted against organizing hcr's and feel the same today. I am glad I retired. Talking to the drivers in Columbus, they like the money that they get from being a Mailhandler. They would rather be drivers than mailhandlers. Get rid of all in DC . Next election is your time to take a stand.

To the HCR driver, you don't know shit. I have gone out to many of your accidents that were horrific in nature, watched one driver being scraped off the highway estimated speed was over 100 mph!!!. A lot of these accidents were from lack of sleep so I don't believe your shit about being home with your whore!!! HCR's suck the jobs from all of us. Just wait until the Mexican truck drivers start coming in and you will be whining about them taking your jobs. I have even seen HCR's taking fuel out of their trucks tank and put it into their own vehicle did the inspectors do anything? hell no!!!

I don't recognize any hcr as a apwu member....they're still SCABS TO ME!

Edited by author 11-13-2009 09:53 AM

GUESS MVS IS BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL

Spotterron you hit the nail on the head when a portion of we MVS employees fought agianst organizing the hcr drivers we were right! The Clerk Craft and Maint all were miss informed! The APWU has spent millions to organize the few and the babbling idot at the helm said he would continue to do just that!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wonder how he feels about Obama now that the APWU backed him. Burrus did it just for the history books!

Can't argue with that, trucker's wife. He's right. The APWU, in all it's wisdom, has been signing up HCR drivers for over 10 years now. Thank the Clerk Craft, the Maintenance Craft, and a bunch of misguided MVS members at the Nat'l. convention for that backstabbing. Why do you think the APWU doesn't give a crap as our MVS Craft is slowly but surely being eliminated, soon to be history, just like the Special Delivery Craft? They've been signing up our replacements for years. Dues money is dues money, no matter where it comes from.......

HCR was here first the mvs was just trips from the amf to sorting plants starting in 1913 and did not bargain till 1971.
oh did I say do your homework yes I did! ups is so much a brother teamster they force ups freight to be separate not unified but separate and they have the same employer and there are hcr drivers in the apwu so where is your brotherhood toward fellow apwu members what a looser.

Any HCR is just a SCAB to me.

 truck driver, shut up & get a life man, you wish one day to be a brother TEAMSTER please man , you want to be a real BROTHER TEAMSTER driver then check with,ups,yellow freight,pepsi,all the BROTHERS TEAMSTER, port workers, let me guess, looser by the way you sound you have to be a Pat Solmon hcr driver, brother teamster WANNABE

we have a pension as well I work 40 hours a week and extra if I choose to. My wife and I work around the same hours so I have dinner with her quite often and we are always going on day trips and have fun. I have seen plenty of mvs drivers that look like slobs I at least look presentable whenever I am working and the dot likes our company because of our safe good running fleet. like I said get your facts straight before you post you looser. contracting started in 1775 originated by Benjamin Franklin contracting started to be called Star Route in 1845 and in 1970 it was called just Highway Contract Route, where was MVS during these early years... they did not exists hcr is older then this country 234 years old next year it will be 235 years old so I ask who is taking who's jobs

Get real lady I AM A TEAMSTER and I do not live in my truck thank you very much. what a looser.

this message is for the hcr who calls himself a truck drive, you dont know the first thing about being a truck driver, you HCR drivers "make me wonder all the time". I respect all truck drivers but hcr driver like you is the reason why the ownwer of the hcr contracts are living well and drivers like you and many others are living in trailer parks!!!!!!!! Not as you say in the begining of your message that you make good wages, benefits and vacations. That is why you hcr drivers sleep, eat and shit in your trucks trying to get as many hours as you can to make a decent pay check. This website is for real postal drivers, not money hungry, lazy whinning contractors like you. By the way when was the last time you were home to have dinner with your family and shower and look like a professional postal truck driver. Next time your on the road keep looking in your mirrors for the dot I see how dangerous you guys drive!!! and how unsafe your truck and trailers are.