During our recent Joint Labor/Management Committee meeting certain questions concerning temperature control in postal facilities were raised. You questioned the intent of the heating maximum of 65 F and the cooling minimum of 79 provided for under the Postal Service's Energy Conservation Program. For your information, the objective at each postal facility where these temperature guides are relative is to maintain temperatures as close as reasonably practicable to these guides without exceeding the maximum heating or minimum cooling requirements. Obviously, implementation of these objectives requires a commonsense approach. If the temperature in space regularly occupied by employees performing everyday work is significantly out of line, temperature readings can be taken and, when necessary and reasonably possible, adjustments made. This document contains two Article 14 related issues; a USPS Position Letter on Page 1 and a Step 4 Agreement on Page 2.
Document Type: USPS Position Letter
APWU National Grievance Number: None