NEW: Settlement on 2008 National Mail Count

New: Settlement on 2008 National Mail Count

Shortly into the 2008 national mail count the National Office started to receive calls with concerns of low volume. Just a few days following the mail count there were numerous calls of concern about mailings with in home delivery dates for the mail count period that were now being received after the mail count. The National Board decided that a national level grievance needed to be filed to address this mail flow issue. Shortly after filing the national level grievance, an all call went out to the state stewards to gather and provide the National Office with documentation so that a full investigation could be conducted by the National Board. After receiving the documentation from the field, many hours of research up to and not limited to contacting mailers and tracking mail from entry point to delivery by the carriers.

The burden of proof with a contractual grievance lies with the union. The union needed to prove that management manipulated the mail flow, mainly the requested in home delivery dated mailings during the 2008 national mail count. Although we had a tremendous amount of documentation provided from the field on dated mailings, we were unable to prove that management was the cause of these dated mailings arriving outside of the in home requested delivery dates.


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