{"id":8665,"date":"2014-10-10T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2014-10-10T08:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T13:42:34","slug":"pecking-order-set-for-filling-new-positions-in-postplan-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/10\/10\/pecking-order-set-for-filling-new-positions-in-postplan-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pecking Order\u2019 Set for Filling New Positions in POStPlan Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"

10\/09\/2014<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The APWU and USPS have agreed on a\u00a0<\/span>\u201cpecking order\u201d for filling newly created positions in POStPlan Installations<\/a>. A recent arbitration award will result in the creation of 9,000 new Clerk Craft jobs in six-hour and four-hour offices affected by the POStPlan. The pecking order is based on the\u00a0<\/span>arbitration award<\/a>\u00a0and the subsequent\u00a0<\/span>Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe union attempted to come up with a clean and quick pecking order that would place bargaining unit employees from the area into the positions as soon as possible and make it easier for the locals and state organizations to manage the staffing process,\u201d said Clerk Craft Director Clint Burelson. \"1aa-APWU-small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the 3,000 or so jobs expected to be filled in six-hour Remotely Managed Post Offices (RMPOs) and the almost 12,000 part-time flexibles in the bargaining unit, the majority of the jobs are expected to go to PTFs within the installation (bid cluster) and\/or in a 50-mile radius from the Administrative Post Office (APO),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will present a good opportunity for many PTFs to increase their hours. It also will offer an opportunity to improve their \u201chigh three\u201d earning years, which are used to calculate retirement annuities,\u201d Burelson pointed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of PTFs filling positions in the six-hour RMPOs, it is expected that Postal Support Employees (PSEs) will be converted to career by filling the vacant PTF positions.\u00a0 PSEs are also expected to fill the jobs in four-hour offices, where they will be able to move to career as future vacancies come up in the installation (bid cluster),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmployees in six- and four-hour RMPOs will be the only person working in their offices and will have the opportunity and responsibility to help preserve the post office for their community,\u201d Burelson noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe APWU is working to gather the resources to help employees, locals, and state organizations preserve and enhance living-wage jobs and good service in our communities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For more information about the POStPlan arbitration award and the MOU,\u00a0<\/span>click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

10\/09\/2014\u00a0–\u00a0The APWU and USPS have agreed on a\u00a0\u201cpecking order\u201d for filling newly created positions in POStPlan Installations. A recent arbitration award will result in the creation of 9,000 new Clerk Craft jobs in six-hour and four-hour offices affected by the POStPlan. The pecking order is based on the\u00a0arbitration award\u00a0and the subsequent\u00a0Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665","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=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8666,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions\/8666"}],"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=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}