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Subject: {{ruralc...@rootsweb.com}} NJ Postal and Rural News, Issue 35-X2, Dec. 15, 2007 (List 11)
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NEW JERSEY POSTAL AND RURAL NEWS
Issue 36-X-2, Vol. 1 December 15, 2007 Saturday Hier...@comcast.net
Issues of the New Jersey Postal and NRLCA News are now posted and available on the following website: http://groups.google.com/group/rlc_onliners_pub?hl=en
_________________________________________________________________________
Issue Codes = Issue A(A is not usually used and constitutes just the issue #)-E are news and human interest stories; Issue NJ are New Jersey related issues; Issues SP are special issues with important news; Issues ST are steward related articles and Issues-X are breaking news articles of importance. _________________________________________________________________________
PARTIES REACH AGREEMENT ON REMEDY-2002 MAIL COUNT GRIEVANCE
The objective of the 2002 national mail count grievances and each successive national mail count grievance was to cause the Postal Service to cease and desist from its improper conduct and afford each and every bargaining unit rural letter carrier a meaningful remedy.
We were gratified by Arbitrator Eischen’s May 15, 2006, award which was a stinging 88-page rebuke of the Postal Service’s conduct before and during the 2002 national mail count. However, we were disappointed that the application of Arbitrator Eischen’s remedy would affect rural carriers serving on only 21% of all rural routes. That left almost 80% of the routes and the carriers serving those routes without any monetary relief.
As you know, the Postal Service and Association sought clarification of several remedial issues and, as a result, on June 15, 2007, Arbitrator Eischen issued a supplemental award on remedy which, in all but one respect (the demand for immediate payment of interest), affirmed the Association’s positions.
In the supplemental award, Arbitrator Eischen invited the parties to consider alternative remedies, if mutually acceptable. The attached settlement reflects the Association’s efforts to maximize, to the greatest extent possible, the number of rural carriers who will receive compensation for the Postal Service’s improper mail count conduct. Instead of only 21% of the routes receiving a monetary award as the result of Arbitrator Eischen’s remedy, fully 100% of the bargaining unit rural letter carriers on the rolls on specified dates in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, will receive compensation for the Postal Service’s improper mail count conduct. Retirees and those who have left the craft are still eligible for settlement payments, provided they were on the rolls on any or all of the five listed dates which correspond to the effective date of the national mail counts in each of those five years.
The attached settlement will cost the Postal Service in excess of 60 million dollars for payments to bargaining unit rural carriers. All pending nationally-filed mail count grievances are withdrawn. Rural carriers should begin seeing the settlement payments in their regular paychecks in January 2008.
Click here to view the settlement. (Acrobat Reader Required)
ADJUSTMENT OF EMA RATE TO 57 CENTS PER MILE
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released the November 2007 CPI-W Private Transportation Index. Based on this release and the contractually mandated base increase of 3.0 cents per mile, Equipment Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for NRLCA employees will increase by 6.0 cents to 57.0 cents per mile.
In accordance with the provisions of Article 9, Section 2.J.3 of the USPS/NRLCA National Agreement, effective January 5, 2008 (Pay Period 02-08), the equipment maintenance allowance (EMA) will increase from 51.0 cents per mile to 57.0 cents per mile, or a minimum of $22.80 per day, whichever is greater.
Auxiliary Rural Carriers, Rural Carrier Reliefs, Rural Carrier Associates, Rural Carrier Part-Time Flexibles, and Auxiliary Assistance
Employees providing auxiliary assistance or serving auxiliary routes under the provisions of Article 9, Section 2.J.5, will receive EMA of 57.0 cents per mile or $6.30 per hour, whichever is greater. The EMA will not exceed the amount provided in the special EMA chart for route stops and miles.
The new special EMA chart will be posted when it becomes available.
DISCLAIMER: I have no affiliation with USPS or the NRLCA and as such any information that I pass on is unofficial and constitutes advice and/or suggestions for your consideration. You may be advised to double-check with official sources before depending on its use and while you are doing that ask why is it that someone without official contacts has this information and is passing it on and its not coming from official sources.
Note: These email messages are being sent to the entire NJ State Board and almost all of the senior stewards in New Jersey. There should be no concerns about this being done secretly.
**If you know any rural craft employee who would like to receive this dissemination, please send email address, and office of employment to Hier...@comcast.net.
**If you do not wish to receive these disseminations, please notify Hier...@comcast.net and request removal from dissemination list.
**Please address all comments, submissions, stories to Hier...@comcast.net and be sure to mark it as confidential or note if it is OK to share.
RURALC...@ROOTSWEB.COM MAIL LIST.
FOR DISCUSSION OF POSTAL AND RURAL CARRIER RELATED SUBJECTS.
STEWARD CONTACTS
http://www.nrlca.org/stewards.html
NRLCA CONTACT INFO.
National Rural Letter Carriers' Association
Fourth Floor
1630 Duke Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3465
Phone: 703-684-5545
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From: <hier...@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 3:06 PM
Subject: {{ruralc...@rootsweb.com}} NJ Postal and Rural News, Issue 35-X2, Dec. 15, 2007 (List 11)
To: Hier...@comcast.net
Cc: Ruralc...@rootsweb.com
NEW JERSEY POSTAL AND RURAL NEWS
Issue 36-X-2, Vol. 1 December 15, 2007 Saturday Hier...@comcast.net
Issues of the New Jersey Postal and NRLCA News are now posted and available on the following website: http://groups.google.com/group/rlc_onliners_pub?hl=en
_________________________________________________________________________
Issue Codes = Issue A(A is not usually used and constitutes just the issue #)-E are news and human interest stories; Issue NJ are New Jersey related issues; Issues SP are special issues with important news; Issues ST are steward related articles and Issues-X are breaking news articles of importance. _________________________________________________________________________
PARTIES REACH AGREEMENT ON REMEDY-2002 MAIL COUNT GRIEVANCE
The objective of the 2002 national mail count grievances and each successive national mail count grievance was to cause the Postal Service to cease and desist from its improper conduct and afford each and every bargaining unit rural letter carrier a meaningful remedy.
We were gratified by Arbitrator Eischen’s May 15, 2006, award which was a stinging 88-page rebuke of the Postal Service’s conduct before and during the 2002 national mail count. However, we were disappointed that the application of Arbitrator Eischen’s remedy would affect rural carriers serving on only 21% of all rural routes. That left almost 80% of the routes and the carriers serving those routes without any monetary relief.
As you know, the Postal Service and Association sought clarification of several remedial issues and, as a result, on June 15, 2007, Arbitrator Eischen issued a supplemental award on remedy which, in all but one respect (the demand for immediate payment of interest), affirmed the Association’s positions.
In the supplemental award, Arbitrator Eischen invited the parties to consider alternative remedies, if mutually acceptable. The attached settlement reflects the Association’s efforts to maximize, to the greatest extent possible, the number of rural carriers who will receive compensation for the Postal Service’s improper mail count conduct. Instead of only 21% of the routes receiving a monetary award as the result of Arbitrator Eischen’s remedy, fully 100% of the bargaining unit rural letter carriers on the rolls on specified dates in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, will receive compensation for the Postal Service’s improper mail count conduct. Retirees and those who have left the craft are still eligible for settlement payments, provided they were on the rolls on any or all of the five listed dates which correspond to the effective date of the national mail counts in each of those five years.
The attached settlement will cost the Postal Service in excess of 60 million dollars for payments to bargaining unit rural carriers. All pending nationally-filed mail count grievances are withdrawn. Rural carriers should begin seeing the settlement payments in their regular paychecks in January 2008.
Click here to view the settlement. (Acrobat Reader Required)
ADJUSTMENT OF EMA RATE TO 57 CENTS PER MILE
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released the November 2007 CPI-W Private Transportation Index. Based on this release and the contractually mandated base increase of 3.0 cents per mile, Equipment Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for NRLCA employees will increase by 6.0 cents to 57.0 cents per mile.
In accordance with the provisions of Article 9, Section 2.J.3 of the USPS/NRLCA National Agreement, effective January 5, 2008 (Pay Period 02-08), the equipment maintenance allowance (EMA) will increase from 51.0 cents per mile to 57.0 cents per mile, or a minimum of $22.80 per day, whichever is greater.
Auxiliary Rural Carriers, Rural Carrier Reliefs, Rural Carrier Associates, Rural Carrier Part-Time Flexibles, and Auxiliary Assistance
Employees providing auxiliary assistance or serving auxiliary routes under the provisions of Article 9, Section 2.J.5, will receive EMA of 57.0 cents per mile or $6.30 per hour, whichever is greater. The EMA will not exceed the amount provided in the special EMA chart for route stops and miles.
The new special EMA chart will be posted when it becomes available.
DISCLAIMER: I have no affiliation with USPS or the NRLCA and as such any information that I pass on is unofficial and constitutes advice and/or suggestions for your consideration. You may be advised to double-check with official sources before depending on its use and while you are doing that ask why is it that someone without official contacts has this information and is passing it on and its not coming from official sources.
Note: These email messages are being sent to the entire NJ State Board and almost all of the senior stewards in New Jersey. There should be no concerns about this being done secretly.
**If you know any rural craft employee who would like to receive this dissemination, please send email address, and office of employment to Hier...@comcast.net.
**If you do not wish to receive these disseminations, please notify Hier...@comcast.net and request removal from dissemination list.
**Please address all comments, submissions, stories to Hier...@comcast.net and be sure to mark it as confidential or note if it is OK to share.
RURALC...@ROOTSWEB.COM MAIL LIST.
FOR DISCUSSION OF POSTAL AND RURAL CARRIER RELATED SUBJECTS.
STEWARD CONTACTS
http://www.nrlca.org/stewards.html
NRLCA CONTACT INFO.
National Rural Letter Carriers' Association
Fourth Floor
1630 Duke Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3465
Phone: 703-684-5545
-------------------------------
To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to RURALCARRI...@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
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