Arbitrator Byars determined that Article 7.3.B applies only to the relationship between full-time and part-time flexible employees. The Postal Service has no obligation to combine the hours of non-full time employees (i.e., part-time regular, part-time flexible, transitional and/or casual employees and regularly scheduled overtime hours of full-time regular employees, in order to maximize the number of full-time employees pursuant to Article 7.3.B. NOTE: In the Clerk Craft, this decision was subsequently overridden by the language added to Article 37.3.A.1 in the 2010 CBA that "[e]very effort will be made to create desirable duty assignments from all available work hours for career employees to bid." [emphasis added]
Document Type: National Arbitration
GATS Number: Q06C-4Q-C 10191368
Craft: Clerk
Arbitrator Name: Linda Byars