{"id":14498,"date":"2016-03-28T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T13:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14498"},"modified":"2016-03-28T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T13:45:23","slug":"apwu-district-court-orders-clarification-on-maintenance-craft-staffing-at-bmcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/03\/28\/apwu-district-court-orders-clarification-on-maintenance-craft-staffing-at-bmcs\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: District Court Orders Clarification On Maintenance Craft Staffing at BMCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">03\/24\/2016<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The Postal Service sidestepped a fight in federal court on March 16 over enforcement of an Oct. 19, 2015, arbitration award on staffing at Bulk Mail Centers (BMCs).\u00a0 After the USPS filed a \u201cconsent motion,\u201d Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered interpretation of the award to be returned to Arbitrator Ira F. Jaffe.<\/p>\n<p>The APWU filed a\u00a0court complaint on Dec. 11, 2015, seeking enforcement of Arbitrator Jaffe\u2019s October ruling, which instructed the Postal Service to \u201ccease and desist\u201d from using Maintenance Management Order (MMO) 112-10 (eWHEP) and to return to using MMO 022-04 (BMC Gold) to prepare Maintenance Craft staffing packages for BMCs (also known as Network Distribution Centers or NDCs). <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7249\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"1aa-APWU-small\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The APWU filed the complaint because the Postal Service failed to comply with Arbitrator Jaffe\u2019s ruling, which made clear that management should have updated its staffing packages to conform to BMC Gold<a id=\"_GoBack\" name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>as of the date of his award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManagement applied some twisted reasoning to avoid complying with the award, interpreting \u2018cease and desist\u2019 to mean that existing staffing packages did not need updating until such time as a new staffing package is required,\u201d Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Once Arbitrator Jaffe rules on the meaning of his original award, any future noncompliance by the Postal Service will place it in contempt of a federal court order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/24\/2016\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The Postal Service sidestepped a fight in federal court on March 16 over enforcement of an Oct. 19, 2015, arbitration award on staffing at Bulk Mail Centers (BMCs).\u00a0 After the USPS filed a \u201cconsent motion,\u201d Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered interpretation of the award to be returned to Arbitrator Ira F. Jaffe. The APWU filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14499,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions\/14499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}