{"id":3152,"date":"2011-11-16T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2011-11-16T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:10:51","slug":"apwu-asks-are-those-posted-duty-assignments-desirable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/11\/16\/apwu-asks-are-those-posted-duty-assignments-desirable\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU Asks Are Those Posted Duty Assignments Desirable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/APWU-News2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3153\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/APWU-News2-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Are Those Posted Duty Assignments \u2018Desirable?&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Collective Bargaining Agreement obligates the Postal Service to make \u201cevery effort\u201d to create desirable duty assignments from \u201call available work hours for career employees\u201d when management posts full-time Clerk Craft assignments for bid, Clerk Craft Director Rob Strunk is reminding union members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Every effort\u2019 means just that,\u201d he noted. \u201cA 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll available work hours\u201d also means just what it says, Strunk notes: All work hours \u2013 including overtime, hours worked by Postal Support Employees (PSEs), hours worked by part-time flexibles from other offices, and cross-craft hours \u2014 must be considered when management creates new NTFT assignments. The contractual language clearly requires management to consider \u201call available work hours,\u201d not \u201cearned hours,\u201d which are generated by management computer models.<\/p>\n<p>But what are \u201cdesirable duty assignments?\u201d 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?<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the question of desirability will be answered by members of the Clerk Craft. Each time employees choose to bid \u2014 whether by computer, telephone, or through the manual bid box \u2014 they are telling management and the union what they consider \u201cdesirable duty assignments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Those Posted Duty Assignments \u2018Desirable?&#8217; The Collective Bargaining Agreement obligates the Postal Service to make \u201cevery effort\u201d to create desirable duty assignments from \u201call available work hours for career employees\u201d when management posts full-time Clerk Craft assignments for bid, Clerk Craft Director Rob Strunk is reminding union members. \u201c\u2018Every effort\u2019 means just that,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","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=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}