Are Those Posted Duty Assignments ‘Desirable?’
The Collective Bargaining Agreement obligates the Postal Service to make “every effort” to create desirable duty assignments from “all available work hours for career employees” when management posts full-time Clerk Craft assignments for bid, Clerk Craft Director Rob Strunk is reminding union members.
“‘Every effort’ means just that,” he noted. “A local manager cannot be excused from the requirement to post desirable schedules simply because his boss or someone at the District level insists that all Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) duty assignments must be established with 35 hours per week or less,” he said.
“All available work hours” also means just what it says, Strunk notes: All work hours – including overtime, hours worked by Postal Support Employees (PSEs), hours worked by part-time flexibles from other offices, and cross-craft hours — must be considered when management creates new NTFT assignments. The contractual language clearly requires management to consider “all available work hours,” not “earned hours,” which are generated by management computer models.
But what are “desirable duty assignments?” It is easy to surmise that an assignment with five 8-hour days and weekends off is more desirable than five 6-hour days with split days off. But are four 10-hour days more desirable than five 8-hour days?
Ultimately, the question of desirability will be answered by members of the Clerk Craft. Each time employees choose to bid — whether by computer, telephone, or through the manual bid box — they are telling management and the union what they consider “desirable duty assignments.”
Sorry about your job and home.
I hope you get a job and a little seniority and 8 hours with weekends off!!!!
In answer to Bandon. To some degree you are correct. But you are missing
the point. It’s not about not wanting your job. It’s about doing the right thing
for the postal worker……..
I FEEL THAT WORKING 5 DAYS AT 8 HRS AND WEEKENDS OFF IS A DESIRABLE DUTY ASSIGNMEMNT. I ALSO FEEL WORKING 4 DAYS AT 10 HRS. WOULD BE DESIRABLE, IN FACT THAT WOULD MAKE MORE SENCE BECAUSE THERE WOULD NOT BE ANY NEED FOR OVERTIME IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE WORKING 10 HR DAYS ALREADY. YOU COULD SET UP A ROTATION OF 4 DAYS WITH EVERYONE AND THAT WAY EVERYONE WOULD GET A CHANCE TO HAVE A LONG WEEKEND. YOU COULD ALSO HAVE 12 HR DAYS 3 DAYS A WEEK AND THAT COULD BE ROTATED ALSO. I USE TO WORK 4DAYS AT 10 HRS AND ALSO WORKED 3 DAYS AT 12HRS AT LOWES AND IT WORKED OUT GREAT.
Please don’t post your comments in all capital letters. PEN
There are so many people out there with NO jobs who would GLADLY take any kind of job that payed as well as the USPS, regardless of the schedule! Those with jobs should be glad they have them, and stop crying about the undesirable aspects of their duty assignments. If you don’t want your job, give it to someone who lost their home because they lost their employment!