{"id":9402,"date":"2014-12-14T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2014-12-14T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:04:48","slug":"maintenance-craft-wins-8-64-million-remedy-for-improper-subcontracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/12\/14\/maintenance-craft-wins-8-64-million-remedy-for-improper-subcontracting\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance Craft Wins $8.64 Million Remedy for Improper Subcontracting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">12\/14\/2014<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Arbitrator Shyam Das has ordered the Postal Service to pay Maintenance Craft employees $8.64 million for improperly subcontracting work that could have been performed by bargaining unit employees, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced. The<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/resource-files\/AOI%20Award.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">decision, issued on Dec. 11<\/a>, concludes four rounds of hearings on management\u2019s decision to subcontract the wiring of more than 7,800 of the largest Associate Offices with computer cable. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7249\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"1aa-APWU-small\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Das first ruled on Feb. 11, 2010, that management violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement when it decided unilaterally in 1996 to subcontract the work as part the Associate Office Infrastructure program. Das instructed the USPS to assign such work to the bargaining unit in the future, but returned the issue of the remedy for the past violation to the APWU and USPS.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2010 ruling, the Postal Service engaged in its \u201cnormal pattern\u201d\u00a0of \u201cdelay and obfuscate,\u201d asserting that no monetary remedy was appropriate and\u00a0refusing to supply the union with\u00a0information necessary to determine a monetary remedy, Raymer said. \u201cConsequently, the APWU had no choice except to go back to the arbitrator,\u201d Raymer said. In two\u00a0subsequent rulings issued on May 1, 2013, and Oct. 9, 2013, Das rejected USPS arguments that no monetary remedy was appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The $8.64 million ruling follows hearings held on March 24 and 25.<\/p>\n<p>To reach a summary of the award, click<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/resource-files\/AOI%20Remedy%20Award%20Analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/14\/2014\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Arbitrator Shyam Das has ordered the Postal Service to pay Maintenance Craft employees $8.64 million for improperly subcontracting work that could have been performed by bargaining unit employees, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced. The\u00a0decision, issued on Dec. 11, concludes four rounds of hearings on management\u2019s decision to subcontract the wiring of more than [&hellip;]<\/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-9402","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\/9402","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=9402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9403,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions\/9403"}],"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=9402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}