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APWU
APWU
Thomas
Edwards, President St. Paul, MN Area Local
January 29, 2010
www.stpaulapwu.org
651-778-1637
The St. Paul Area Local
has received the new Eagan facility staffing package. The following are the numbers as we know them today.
Keep in mind that these numbers are FLUID, as management changes their plans i.e.: machinery, sections etc., the numbers
too will change.
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Pay Location |
Staffing Impact |
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110 |
No change |
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120 |
Reduction of one level
6 position |
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125 |
Addition of two level
6 positions |
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129 |
No change to level 7,
reduction of four level 6 positions |
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131 |
Posting two level 6
positions per grievance |
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145 |
Reduction of 14 level
6 positions |
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FSS T-1 |
New section, addition
of 6 level 6 positions |
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210 (REG) |
Reduction of one level
7 position |
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210 (BOX) |
Reduction of three level
6 positions |
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225 |
No change |
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229 |
No change to level 7, reduction of two level 6 positions |
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231 |
Reduction of 18 level
6 positions |
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245 |
Reduction of 9 level
6 positions |
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310 (BOX) |
Reduction of 1 level
6 and 1 level 7 position |
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310 (REG) |
Reduction of 1 level
6 position |
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325 |
Reduction of 9 level
6 positions |
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329 |
Reduction of 4 level
6 positions and an addition of 1 level 7 position |
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331 |
Reduction of 6 level
6 positions |
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345 |
Reduction of 9 level
6 positions |
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FSS T-3 |
New section, addition
of 6 level 6 positions |
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AMC T-1 |
Reduction of 6 level
7 positions and an addition of two level 6 positions |
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AMC T-2 |
Reduction of 5 level
6 positions and a reduction of four level 7 positions |
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AMC T-3 |
Reduction of 6 level
6 positions and a reduction of 8 level 7 positions |
Management has notified
the local that as of 12/24/09, 106 level 6 and 22 level 7 Clerk employees will be excessed from the installation. Junior employees
to be excessed will be excessed by craft, salary level and status. Best Qualified, and part time regulars are a separate status. When excessing occurs the sole criteria for selecting employees to be excessed is
craft seniority. Whether you are recovering from either on or off the job injury
would have no bearing on being excessed. Employees in a light or limited duty
status will be excessed in the same way that employees in a full duty status are excessed, based on the pay level of the duty
assignment that they hold and their seniority.
So far, it has not been determined how the move from the
old (St. Paul) installation to the new (Eagan)
installation will be completed. Management has notified the union that their
plan is to move operations to the new facility in stages, over a 1 to 3 month period beginning possibly in June or July of
this year.
As far as bidding in the new facility, it will depend on
how and when management abolishes, reverts, excesses and posts bid duty assignments.
As of now, it is impossible to determine what jobs will be posted installation wide or posted for in-section bidding.
The
Local still has not received the maintenance staffing package.
We
will continue to meet regularly with management. We will keep you informed as
details become available.
On January 3, 2010,
the St. Paul Area Local APWU received the most recent withholding notice. This
notice is NOT the actual staffing package for the new Eagan facility, however it does give the local a strong
sense of what is to come. The new withholding notice does indicate that there
will be excessing outside of the installation: “It is anticipated that
it will be necessary to excess 22 level PS-7 and 106 level PS-6 clerks from the St. Paul installation by May 2010.”
The Service has authorized the withholding of up to 128 FTR
positions in PS level 7 and below in the clerk craft, carrier, mailhandler, and custodial crafts within 100 miles. Due to the number of clerks impacted and the number of impacts at other offices, the Service anticipates
the need to withhold positions out to a 500 mile radius.
Additionally, the St Paul,
MN P&DC will move its operations to the new Eagan
facility possibly beginning in August 2010. Mnagement anticipates that it will
need 497 clerks for the new facility.
The local APWU will continue to work to reduce the number
of anticipated impacted positions.
Any member having questions concerning bidding, relocation
or general impact questions, please contact a steward.
Respectfully and in solidarity,
Tom Edwards
President
APWU APWU
Tom Edwards, President St. Paul, MN Area Local June 17, 2009
www.stpaulapwu.org 651-778-1637
Attention: Eagan
Move Update!
On Wednesday, 6/17/09, Vice President Ecker and I attended a meeting at the
Minneapolis P&DC with District Manager Anthony Williams and Lead Plant manager Erica Brix concerning the move to Eagan. Also present were
representatives from the the Minneapolis Area Local APWU, Mailhandlers union both St. Paul
and Minneapolis, the BMC, Labor Relations and respective management
officials. As of 6/17/09, I am happy to report, the new facility will be named
the St. Paul Processing and Distribution Center Eagan Minnesota. This is a positive
outcome for the employees of St. Paul. Several questions remain concerning staffing issues, what type of equipment (machines) will be deployed
to the facility, and an array of Article 12 issues. All of these questions will
be addressed at future District Level meetings. So for now I can say to you the
new facility is St. Paul.
I will continue to forward updated information as it becomes available. If
you have questions this bulletin does not address, please contact a union steward.
MOVE TO EAGAN UPDATE
Excavating
contractors have begun prepping the site for construction of the new building. The
completion date of the new facility is late 2010, early 2011. We will probably
begin meetings on the move mid-season of 2009. We will keep you informed in the
move through the process.
MOVE TO EAGAN
UPDATE
by Pat McCann, President
About a month ago, (August 1, 2008)
District Manager Tony Williams held an informational meeting for the labor organizations and management personnel in regard
to the Eagan project.
He indicated at that meeting that the Postal Board of Governors had approved the building of a mail processing plant
on the property owned by the USPS in Eagan. He further indicated that we would be seeing an official announcement in the local newspapers the week
following our meeting.
Well, it has been about four weeks
since the meeting and no announcement from the Board of Governors.
I spoke with District Manager Williams
on September 2, 2008 about the announcement he had indicated would occur, and he had no comment as to why there was no official
announcement.
Without an official announcement from
the Board of Governors on what has been approved, i.e. what type of mail processing will be done in the new building, everything
is open to speculation.
Once the union is provided exactly
what the Postal Board of Governors has approved and what operations will be placed in the new building, then the union will
be able to provide you with concrete timetables and what the contractual affects move will have on the membership.
Hopefully, the September, 2008 Board
of Governors meeting will provide us with the official announcement.
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UPDATE
ON MOVE TO EAGAN
By Pat McCann, President
Approximately three (3) weeks ago,
the Postal Board of Governors met and approved the sale of the concourse and parking lot to the Ramsey County Rail Authority. The Post Office building itself was not part of the deal.
Apparently Ramsey County has funds already allocated for
this purchase and are working out the details of the purchase with the USPS. I
don’t have any information at this time as to when the final agreement will be signed.
The union has begun to make inquiries as to the affect this will have on employee parking after the purchase is completed.
As for the future site in Eagan, the parties (USPS, Dakota
County, City of Eagan) still have not come to an agreement on where vehicles will access and egress to the facility and who
will pay for it.
As you can see, the project
is still moving along at a snail’s pace and it does not appear that it is going to pick up speed anytime soon.
Update on Move to Eagan - from the March 2008 Postmark
The latest proposal is to build another road on the Eagan property that would eliminate the need for a stop light at Lexington Ave. This
road would allow postal trucks and employees’ vehicles easier access to enter the property or leave the property. This is in addition to the already agreed upon connection of Denmark Ave through postal property.
It appears that all parties involved think this is a good
idea except that no one wants to step up and pay for it and there in lies the problem.
At this point, the politicians involved are trying to come
to an agreement on how to get funding for the proposed road. Until that hurdle
is cleared, the project is at a stand still.
It also appears that since there is no agreement on the road,
the Postal Board of Governors probably won’t take up the proposed move at their March 2008 meeting. They will probably delay action until sometime this summer. This
delay will most likely impact the timeline for completion if the proposed move is approved this summer.
THE MOVE TO EAGAN UPDATE - from the January 2008 Postmark
by Pat McCann, President
The USPS and the various
government entities (Dakota County, Ramsey County, City of Eagan,
etc.) continue to haggle over who is going to pay for the various upgrades to the infra structure needed for the City of Eagan,
Dakota County and the USPS to have a facility that meets the needs of all concerned.
The main sticking point
that is yet to be resolved is the USPS wants the truck traffic that the facility
will generate to be able to exit and enter the property through a controlled intersection (i.e.: stop sign/traffic light). Dakota County which governs the roads around the USPS property does not believe that the increase
in truck traffic, coupled with the current traffic conditions, requires there be a control device installed.
The disagreement between
the parties has pushed back the meeting of the Postal Board of Governors on the issue until at least March of 2008.
I believe between now and
March, the parties will come to an agreement on the issue allowing the Postal Board of Governors to approve the funds to build
the new facility in Eagan.
Even with the delay, the
USPS time frame for completion of the facility is late 2010 if they get approval from the Postal Board of Governors in March
of this year.
I am still sticking with
my prediction that we will not be in the new facility until 2011 or later.
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