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Assignment of Duties Improper
Union Appeals to Arbitration
(03/14/08) The union appealed a national-level dispute to arbitration March 11, protesting the assignment of non-Maintenance Craft employees to install software on the Carrier Sequence Bar Code Sorter. (Case # Q06T-4Q-C-08083300) The duties in question are properly the responsibility of Electronic Technicians, the union asserted.
The case arose in January, when the Postal Service issued Software Modification Order 001-08, assigning the duties to Senior Mail Processors or Operations Support Specialists. The union filed a Step 4 dispute Jan. 23, and outlined its position in a Statement of Issues and Facts on March 5, 2008.
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MAINTENANCE DIVISION
Steven G. Raymer, Director
Gary Kloepfer, Asst. Director A
Greg See, Asst. Director B
Idowu Balogun, National Representative-at-Large
Telephone: 202-842-4213
Fax: 202-289-3746
The Maintenance Craft is a diverse and complex division of the APWU. In addition to the four national officers who work at the union’s headquarters in Washington, DC, representation is provided by nine Maintenance National Business Agents (NBAs) and three all-craft NBAs.
