The question in this grievance involves whether management in this local office may use employees in other crafts who have less than 40 hours for the week to work in the clerk craft to keep down the use of overtime in that craft. This occurs after clerk craft employees have received 40 hours. Based upon application of Arbitrator Bloch's award in B8C-2F-C 7406, and Arbitrator Mittenthal's award in H8C-2F-C-7406, management does not have unlimited discretion to schedule across craft lines merely to maximize efficient personnel usage. That management may be able to avoid overtime in one craft is not, by itself, contractually sound. It must be shown either that there was insufficient work for one craft or, alternatively, that work was exceptionally heavy in one occupational group and light, as well, in another.
Document Type: USPS Position Letter
APWU National Grievance Number: H1C2BC5148
Craft: Clerk