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Travel and Training
Maintenance Job-Training Selection
Local management may not use non-scheduled days as a criterion for Maintenance Craft job-training selection, because doing so limits the number of potential applicants and excludes viable candidates. Local management may, however, include language on a training solicitation stating that the skill resulting from the completion of the training is necessary for a given set of work days, i.e. Wednesday and Thursday. Language of this nature does not limit the number of applicants. Rather, it incorporates all volunteers within the identified occupational group, level, and tour with scheduled days that meet the required need. [read more]
Personal Belongings
During Interim Trips for Off-Site Training
A Step 4 agreement dated March 11, 2005, [PDF] between the APWU and the USPS addresses the right of postal employees who are engaged in off-site training to leave their personal belongings in their rooms during interim trips.
Prerequisites for Training
The Postal Service has the right to determine the job training courses that are required for promotion. Once it exercises this right, the Postal Service is required to schedule and complete all the identified job training within one year of the posting of the Notice of Intent. The employee is not penalized for the Postal Service's failure to meet this criterion; when this occurs, the employee is promoted. Any additional job training available for the employee must be assigned in accordance with Article 38, Section 6. [read more]
ABOUT THE
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.
