{"id":4567,"date":"2012-06-09T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2012-06-09T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T23:46:13","slug":"apwu-usps-settle-dispute-protect-maintenance-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/06\/09\/apwu-usps-settle-dispute-protect-maintenance-work\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU, USPS Settle Dispute, Protect Maintenance Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/APWU-News4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4568\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/APWU-News4-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The APWU and USPS have reached an agreement that will preserve Maintenance Craft duties for employees in the craft, Maintenance Director Steve Raymer has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The June 8 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/webart\/2012\/12-073-maint-dbcssettlement-120608.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">agreement<\/a> [PDF] stipulates that opening of the DBCS-EC machine stacker panel doors to clear jams, etc. should remain the duty of the Maintenance Craft, despite the fact that there is no longer a lock and latch on the rear panel doors.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was reached as a result of the union\u2019s objections to the Postal Service\u2019s May 22, 2006, issuance of Maintenance Work Order (MWO) 014-06.<\/p>\n<p>The Step 4 settlement provides that, \u201cThis alleged directive is no longer in effect.\u201d Local grievances held pending the outcome of the dispute are remanded to the grievance-arbitration procedure for resolution including regional level arbitration if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/webart\/2012\/12-073-maint-dbcssettlement-120608-exp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">explanation of the agreement<\/a> &#8211; PDF]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The APWU and USPS have reached an agreement that will preserve Maintenance Craft duties for employees in the craft, Maintenance Director Steve Raymer has announced. The June 8 agreement [PDF] stipulates that opening of the DBCS-EC machine stacker panel doors to clear jams, etc. should remain the duty of the Maintenance Craft, despite the fact [&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-4567","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\/4567","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=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}