The cleveland p&dc is cutting 6 junior cleks in every pay location in the plant. They are forcing them into other positions, this leaves clerks running dbcs machines with only one person running entire machine and dispatching the mail. Sounds like a safety hazard. Our limited duty clerks are getting let go in March. I used to have a better attitude about postal service but i feel as though the post office will fall to the side of the road.

I have to be honest i think i will just have enjoy my front row seat to watching PO make so many cuts that it cut its own throat and be right for the picking by the private sector

Dear Onlineemail,

Your sections for excessing are determined by your Local Contract. If you have no reassingnment section in your Local, you follow the National Contract. In any event, excessing out of you installation is strictly by juniority as per Article 12 ( see excessing out of an installation). The devil is in the details it seems. Management had labelled clerks "rehab" or "modified" without proper paperwork. Their form 50's may not accurately reflect their true position in the postal service.
Here's the thing. The junior clerk is excessed, their job becomes available, you are offered that job. If you cannot do that job you are then released back to Workers' Comp.. Then, the real pain begins.........

The USPS is doing the Enron: a dance with moves designed to drive the company into the ground so deeply that Govt bailout is the only (masked) solution. The 'dance' continues to leave trails of destruction that only the Elite can survive. The USPS is asking for another bailout. The corporate idea is to Piedly Pipe the companies into the gutters and we the employees will eventually become the waste.

I FEEL THIS TAKING UNASSIGN CLERKS FROM THERE JOBS ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE DOING LEAD CLOSEOUT POSITION IS NOT RIGHT. I HAVE BEEN UNASSIGN FOR 4 AND A HALF YEARS NOW IN THE BRONX POST OFFICE. I WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO FILL IN THE LEAD CLERK POSITION FOR ALMOST 2 YEARS. I PRACTICALLY DID EVERYTHING AT MY POST OFFICE. NOW I AM BEING FORCES TO GO TO GPO AND WORK THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT WITH NO SAY OR NOT EVEN AND RECOGNITION FOR THE WORK I HAVE DONE AT MY CURRENT STATION. CAN ANYTHING BE DONE ABOUT THIS?

127 - Don't break you arm patting youself on the back.

Just face the real facts. You took a bite out of management apple then "You were used and now you are abused by postal management."

Sorry but that's rule number one of postal management, the more you do for them, the more they will abuse you in the end.

Why else do you think us old timers let everyone else take the slots you did. Past History of postal management taught us this us this "use and abuse policy" many years ago.

Now you can teach the next generation what happend to you, and they will in turn ignore you, just as you ignored advise from old timers.

 The KCKS plant just consolidated with our KCMO P&DC and it's just about finalized. OT out the ying-yang. 12 hours for MH and penalty for the clerks.... We still haven't gotten all the KCKS employees at our facility but will in the next few weeks. I'm sure management is hoping that the extra influx of workers will stifle the OT completely, but now the mail volume has almost doubled and management is scrambling big time. Our plant is under a re-org right now and a lot of mangers from the KCKS plant and other facilities are coming on the scene here. We were appointed a new Acting Plant Manager from Minneapolis, MN who will be starting soon. It's just like sitting on the side-lines with pop-corn in hand waiting to see what happens next....

nkc; Only getting about 40 clerks out of 140 who lost jobs due to consolidation. Think that will make a difference in OT? Who is new plant mgr? Martinez gone already?

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kc clerk, don't know about Martinez but the new 'acting plant manager' is a Gregory Pobuda out of Minneapolis, MN. our plant manager broke his ankle or something... unclear. and yes, i heard we are only getting about 40 clks out of 140-150. the others will be excessed to other facilities around the area. i know one thing though... the mh's and clk's are hoping that the OT continues... it's a circus right now at the plant. a lot more mail coming in.... Ron Mc Gaha has been on the scene for almost a month making a lot of the managers nervous... i like that guy :).

Isn't Martinez the one the kicked out of Egan MN some years back, for being a dumb ass?

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I too, have been recieved a letter stating that I will be excessed out of my current level 7 positon. In the meeting, I was told if I did not bid, I would be placed into a carrier position as far as 400 miles away and I would lose all of my 16 years of bidding seniority because I would be in a diffrent craft, so I bidded to a level 6 position. Before I even left my current postion it was placed up for bid with the days off changed. I used to really like and respect the postal service but now I am too mad that I had to give up my job to another employee with higher seniority.

I started in 74. In 76 when the first lsm's started arriving I was told that I would be excessed if I didn't go to another craft. I called their bluff and stayed manual untill 2008 when I retired. I am SO glad I didn't blink and go to the mail handlers. I would be getting less retirement now if I had.

'Retired Old Clerk'

Just think how many dumbass stupidviosrs/managers you and I have seen over the years that started on the LSM as clerks.

Bet Potter worked on the LSM, and that would explain his total stupidity, and lack of knowledge on what makes things work properly.