Due to continued staffing challenges in rural delivery operations, the Postal Service and the NRLCA have signed the attached MOU regarding two temporary modifications to the USPS-NRLCA National Agreement. Beginning Saturday, March 9, 2024 and continuing through Friday, August 23, 2024, regular rural carriers may volunteer to work on Sunday to deliver packages and may also volunteer to provide service on rural routes other than their assigned routes in the office.
Regular rural carriers will not be required to work on Sunday or serve part of any other rural route. Regular rural carriers must volunteer to perform these additional services.
And when you get forced, and the union does nothing about it, the word volunteer doesn’t mean spit
The union got us 250% pay in my office. But that’s all we can get, no escalating penalties possible. It must be chump change to management because they just pay it out and keep violating the same MOU a thousand times.
Maybe pay should increase with each subsequent violation.
250% the first time,
500% the second,
750% the third, etc….
When they have to pay carriers a week’s pay or much more for a days work, things might change.
How about a clause in the MOU that excludes any office that forces a regular to work on Sunday or assist another route? Might give the grievance process some teeth.
I disagree with these continued MOUs on this matter. Force USPS management to solve the real problem not merely continuing to just pay OT, passing these MOUs to just continue allowing USPS to avoid the real issue and pay their way to a solution thereby further kicking the can down the road.
This particular MOU needs to be either put into the next contract (with appropriate penalties if carriers are forced to work involuntarily) or it needs to go away.
Can we sell our right hand drive vehicles on this site?