anyone know what happens to a limite duty -on the job injuried clerk who is first to be excesed? Not in a bid job but have a modified position. I am bottom regular and wonder what hapens. are they putting us on OWCP roles or exces us to other make up work?

Currently I have the largest route in the office but there is a route that is in danger of falling below 39 hours. My PM told me today that if that route falls below 39.42 hours that he would make my route smaller by giving a piece to the smaller route. How is that fair??? Is this true? I thought that they were going to be consolidating routes not redistibuting them? Has anyone else heard this?

http://gkcmal.blog.com/

Bombshell

We met today with members from the district and western area concerning the centralization of KCKS with the KCMO P&DC. Up until today we were under the impression that all of the clerks in the KS facility would be coming to our plant. That was to be a total of 140 clerks. Today we learned that the clerks coming to KCMO will be 39. 101 clerks will be excessed to other areas, possibly up to a 750 mile radius.

The package presented to us is as follows: Management is creating 71 new jobs. 53 of those jobs will be absorbed by our unassigned regulars which will leave 18 jobs available. 21 new clerk jobs will be created for the incoming FSS machines. 18 plus 21 equals 39, the remaining positions. Thus 39 clerks from KS.
As I always state, this information is subject to change.

I feel for our fellow brothers and sisters. Management gave no hint that this was a possibility. We were all blindsided.

The struggle continues...

President, GKCMAL #67
APWU, AFL-CIO
3824 E 16th
Kansas City, MO 64127

http://www.huntcal.com/cgi/eventview.cgi/t...t&id=229570346&bg=w

Informational Picket - Return of Union President Clint Burelson and Return of Mail Operations in Olympia
 
Date: Monday, January 12, 2009
Time: 11AM - 1PM PST WHAT: Informational Picket

WHEN: Monday, January 12 from 11-1:00

WHERE: Olympia Downtown Post Office
WHY: Our Union President, Clint Burelson, was fired. We want to bring him back to work and resume mail operations in Olympia.

The community is invited to join us in our efforts.


FOR MORE INFO: Contact Louie Mackey at louiemackey@comcast.net

READ ON-- The Postal Service recently fired Local Union President Clint Burelson for his union activities and major role as a whistleblower in exposing the fact that mail consolidations would reduce service and not save money. The Postal Service’s plans for over 150 consolidations all across the country have been stopped once communities learned the truth about mail consolidation. Clint is a strong advocate for workers in the Post Office and Management is firing Clint for performing his duties as a union representative. Despite many grievance settlements signed by the Postal Service in which they agreed to cease and desist in discriminating against Clint for his union activities, management continues to discriminate against Clint. The Postal Service needs to stop the discrimination and bring Clint back to work. The Postal Service recently admitted in a required review of the consolidation that they have lost $1.5 million dollars in 6 months as a result of the transfer of outgoing mail operations from Olympia to Tacoma. The Postal Service had previously claimed that the transfer of the mail to Tacoma would save the Postal Service $1.2 million. The Postal Service therefore made at least a $2.7 million mistake in judgment. After the last picket held by the union, a Postal Service spokesperson told the media covering the picket that the Post Office saved money by the consolidation. However, despite information requests from the union, the Post Office has not provided any documentation in support of their spokesperson’s claims of savings. As it stands, the official documentation provided by the Post Office shows the consolidation to be a financial mistake. The Post Office has said that they would bring the mail back to Olympia if the move were not cost effective. The reduction in mail service, the loss of the Olympia postmark, and the financial costs of processing local mail in Tacoma is clear evidence that it is now time to bring the mail back to Olympia.

39 USC 404 - Sec. 404. Specific powers
39 USC - US Code - Title 39: Postal Service (January 2003)

http://vlex.com/source/1038


US Code - Title 39: Postal Service - January 20, 2006

39 USC 404 - Sec. 404. Specific powers ... (b)(1) The Postal Service, prior to making a determination under subsection (a)(3) of this section as to the necessity for the closing or consolidation of any post office, shall provide adequate ...

http://vlex.com/vid/19236237?ix_resultado=...o%5D=all&sort=score





US Code - Title 39: Postal Service - January 20, 2006

39 USC 2803 - Sec. 2803. Performance plans ... activities, except that any aggregation or consolidation may not omit or minimize the significance of any ...


http://vlex.com/vid/19236003?ix_resultado=...o%5D=all&sort=score

http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/newsnow/

Bill could delay postal consolidation

Posted by Ron Fonger | The Flint Journal January 04, 2008 22:00PM

FLINT -- The plan to move at least 70 postal jobs from Flint to Pontiac has been knocked off track by a federal funding bill that could block the move for a year or more.

"We really have got them stopped in their tracks right now," said U.S. Rep. Dale Kildee, D-Flint. "Delay is on our side."

The U.S. Postal Service proposal would shift 70 to 100 jobs and some mail processing operations from here to a new facility in Pontiac, but a congressional appropriations bill passed in late December now requires fresh reviews -- by the General Accountability Office and a congressional committee -- of studies that led to the plan.

Kildee said the consolidation proposal was based on faulty information and false projected cost savings.

"We're trying to do everything we can to keep the service and the jobs," Kildee said. "I think they made a mistake (by building a new facility in Pontiac), and now they've got to fill the building."

Postal workers have been fighting the consolidation, picketing and rallying at a public meeting late last year in an effort to block or slow down the proposal. All the while, the USPS contended it could save nearly $1.5 million annually by making the change.

Postal Service spokeswoman Shannon LaBruyere said officials are reviewing the new requirements in the appropriations bill before commenting on it or how it will affect the consolidation proposal.

The plan is still considered to be "under review" internally, LaBruyere said.

"I can honestly tell you its (status) is an unknown at this point," she said Friday.

Debbie Lutz, president of the Flint Area Local of the American Postal Workers Union, said she hopes further congressional and GAO review will expose the problems in the consolidation.

"They are going to find out the numbers are not correct," Lutz said. "They can't save anything by consolidating."

Postal consolidation studied

http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2..._s1.2217977_loc.txt

Not if all of us get together and fight this. We need to show the public and the politicians what will happen to the service. Look at the Flash Report, the 1800 cancellations, and a few other of the Postal Services own reports. Wilkes-Barre cancels the same or more then Scranton on a daily basis and all our performance numbers are better. So it makes no sense to move us somewhere that will hurt the service we provide our customers.

At leaset I know we will not go without making a lot of noise, hopefully we can come out victorious.

I just heard that Scrandon and Wilkes Barre PA are going to be consolidated, Wilkes Barre into Scranton

I hope you burn in HELL with the NAZI,Steve Yost.

not sure, but the KCKS GMF is merging with the KCMO P&DC next month... some 120 or so employees there will be excessed to our plant. I believe with all the excessed employees here now from as far away as Harrisonville, MO will be over 175 or more.

does anyboby has anythin g about stockton calif pdc

Stop the Ban, Lu


Webmaster Lu, stop banning my posts:
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Are you in management, or just a prude?
Because not all of my posts are very crude

I see others moan, bitch and whine,
and you seem to think, that this is just fine

You cannot block me, as much as you try,
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and my poems will be funny, mostly in jest

I’m sure my office has called you, several times,
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St. Pete Psycho | 09.22.08 - 9:05 am | #

Daywalker, please keep us posted as to what is going on in Cleveland. The PO is making major changes now and we all need to know what is going on in other cities. Thank you.

So far here in KC... cities that lie around the outskirts are being consolidated into our facility here in KC. St. Joseph employees are now working at our P&DC... and Chillicothe, MO and Harrisonville, MO will be next. These employees will be traveling upwards of 2 or more hours to get to work.

im a flatsorter clerk in cleveland and all we hear is cleveland closing down and employees moving to columbus trying to find the truth. Our union doesnt know anything what a surprise right