Agreement Reached on POStPlan Award Implementation!
On February 10, the Maintenance Craft and Postal Service signed off on the implementation of Arbitrator Goldberg’s Award on POstplan Custodial Staffing in (APO/RMPO) Installations in case number Q10T-4Q-C 15206030. The outstanding issue in implementing the Award is the process of returning custodial cleaning in POStPlan Installations to the Maintenance Division.
In the settlement, the parties agreed to the following:
Determining whether a contract cleaning service can be utilized in an Administrative Post Office (APO) and its associated Remotely Managed Post Offices (RMPOs) within a POStPlan Installation will be based on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Re: Subcontracting Cleaning Services;
Custodial duties that are currently performed by contractors and other non-Maintenance Craft employees will be assigned to custodial employees within 180 days;
Cleaning contracts that include a penalty for cancelling the contract will be reviewed at the national level regarding cancellation;
Current custodial employees who are within a POStPlan Installation will not be involuntarily reassigned to a different office within the POStPlan Installation or have their duty assignment reposted to change their principal assignment area from one office to another;
The Postal Service may require that future custodial duty assignments require the use a privately-owned vehicle (POV) to travel between offices in a POStPlan Installation. The Postal Service reserves the right to provide postal vehicles and/or transportation at its option. This exception is limited only to PostPlan Installation and Maintenance Craft.
Document Type: Memorandum of Understanding
APWU National Grievance Number: Q10T-4Q-C 1520603
GATS Number: 06030
Craft: Maintenance
Arbitrator Name: Stephen Goldberg