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No. 04-16 July
27, 2004 |
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Convention
Delegates Approve
Action on Route Adjustments
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Executive
Council to Work on New System |
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President Young outlines
issues facing NALC as it moves to modernize Postal
Service's route adjustment structure.
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After a lengthy, intense discussion of
the many problems of the current Postal Service systems
of route adjustments and evaluations, delegates by voice
vote overwhelmingly authorized the NALC Executive Council
to develop a better system for the future based on the ideas
presented.
The action followed remarks by President
Young who said his aim was to avoid continuing the daily
confrontations that occur between letter carriers and supervisors,
and comes in the wake of a summer-long moratorium on route
inspections and adjustments in connection with the mail
count verification project.
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2006 Convention
Set for Miami
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National Business
Agent Judy Willoughby and South Florida Br. 1071 President
Mike Gill (pictured) invited delegates to come to
the 65th Biennial National Convention in Miami in
2006. The invitation was well received. It will be
the union’s first convention in that Florida
city since 1964.
The 65th Convention
is scheduled to be held from August 7 to 11, 2006
in Miami.
In 2008, the convention
is scheduled for Boston, MA.
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Young explained that a better system of
route adjustments would be based on taking an average of
a letter carrier’s street time and office time over
a specified period of weeks or months selected by the union.
Use the Average!
“Average every letter carrier’s
office time. Average his street time. That is his time.
No deductions, no nothing,” Young said. “Whatever
it took you to do your route, that’s what you get.”
In that system, Young said there would
be no holding back of mail by management during the designated
week(s) of inspection, but also no regulating of performance
by carriers. “It is what it is,” he said.
Young stressed that the Executive Council
will have to consider many factors before moving ahead with
any specific proposal.
Stop Management Abuse
He said a priority would be to protect
local joint processes that are successful, but emphasized
that a national process must be developed to protect letter
carriers who are being abused by management.
Young addressed directly some idle comments
by critics who are saying the NALC is headed to a system
of evaluated routes. “Wrong,” he said, pointing
to a 1994 Convention action that placed the union on record
against evaluated routes. “Those are my marching orders
and I won’t deviate from them.”
Young said his motivation is simple: “We
want to develop a better, fairer system. Anybody against
that?”
Commenting on the DOIS, Young said the
volume verification confirmed that DOIS was deeply flawed,
but added that the Postal Service was committed to it. “So
we’ve got to make it right,” he said.
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Delegates
Vote to Seek
‘Early Out' Approvals
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Resolution
Aimed at Soliciting OK from OPM
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On a voice vote on the last day of the
convention, delegates adopted a legislative resolution supported
by the Executive Council calling for the NALC to seek approval
from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for an
early out for letter carriers under certain circumstances.
The resolution seeks early-outs for letter carriers with
(1) 25 years service regardless of age, and (2) 20 years
service and 50 years of age.
Resolutions adopted by the convention concerning the next
National Agreement included those seeking contract language
to:
- Require an 88 percent full-time workforce in all 200
work-year (or more) installations, and reinstate language
requiring USPS to maximize full-time employment even where
that ratio has been achieved.
- Require USPS to combine auxiliary routes to create a
full-time position.
- Develop jointly with USPS a simple, accurate overtime
tracking system.
- Permit all career postal employees to donate leave regardless
of geographic area or postal district.
- Credit time served as transitional employee toward retirement.
- Permit letter carriers to reverse badges when wearing
them on the street to protect their full names from public
view.
In addition, amendments to the NALC Constitution were
adopted to:
- Allow regular members on the rolls 90 days prior to
the date a proposed contract is reached to be eligible
to vote on ratification. (The old deadline was July 1
of that year).
- Set October 1 as the date membership determines the
number of Convention votes and delegates for branches.
(It has been December 31).
- Eliminate the $15 convention delegate registration fee,
which is currently collected and then refunded.
- Require that national election ballots be received,
rather than postmarked, by a certain date.
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Sombrotto
Tops AFL-CIO Delegate Vote
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President Emeritus Vincent R. Sombrotto of Br. 36, New
York, NY led all candidates for election to seven spots
as AFL-CIO delegates from the NALC. Sombrotto, who had been
a constitutionally mandated delegate while serving as NALC
president for 24 years, captured 11,091 votes.
Separately, Sombrotto addressed delegates in his first
convention since leaving the union presidency, praising
President Young for his “commitment, desire, and boundless
energy.”
The seven elected AFL-CIO delegates will represent the
union at conventions of the labor federation along with
President Young and Secretary-Treasurer Jane E. Broendel,
who are delegates by virtue of their offices.
The top seven vote getters were elected in balloting by
delegates to the convention. Results were (•
denotes elected):
• Vincent R. Sombrotto
Br. 36 New York, NY 11,091 votes
• Anita Guzik
Br. 24 Los Angeles, CA 10,873 votes
• Denise Brooks
Br. 1433 Medford, OR 10,822 votes
• Prissy Grace
Br. 283 Houston, TX 10,563 votes
• Phillip Wilkes
Br. 11 Chicago, IL 10,258 votes
• Andrew T. Petersen
Br. 47 Denver, CO 10,172 votes
• Ingrid Armada
Br. 15 Providence, RI 10,144 votes
Alesha A. Chappell Br. 43 Cincinnati, OH 1,159 votes
Joni Evans Br. 426 Hamilton, OH 970 votes
John R. Dyce Br. 385 Youngstown, OH 887 votes
Jill Charbonneau Br. 521 Burlington, VT 794 votes
G. Wally Hodges Br. 3867 Pasadena, TX 687 votes
Brian M. Houghton Br. 44 Manchester, NH 658 votes
Paul Long Br. 2202 Corinth, MS 561 votes
Thomas (Ted) Delage Br. 233 Columbia, SC 520 votes
Aubrey C. Fisher Jr. Br. 1977 Newark, DE 416 votes
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Above: NALC Executive Vice President
Jim Williams installs Lynne Jester for another term.
Right: President Young greets MDA
Ambassador Dominic Norbriga.
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Jester Re-elected
Auxiliary President
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Hawaii
MDA Ambassador Visits Delegates |
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Jester of Wisconsin was reelected, without opposition,
as president of the NALC National Auxiliary for the
next two years during the Auxiliary’s 49th Convention
held in conjunction with the NALC Convention.
Also elected were: Joan Spero, vice
president; Gloria Alexander, secretary; Susan McNees,
treasurer; Linda Kirby, assistant secretary; and Bonnie
Christy and Kathy Miller, Directors/Laws.
NALC Vice President Jim Williams
installed the officers for 2004-2006 on July 22.
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Dominic
Norbriga, ambassador of the Muscular Dystrophy Association
for Hawaii visited the convention on July 22 and was
warmly welcomed by the delegates and NALC’s MDA
Coordinator Halline (Chug) Overby.
NALC President Young presented gifts
to Norbriga, who was accompanied by Tom Boyle from
MDA Headquarters and addressed the convention before
awards were presented to top branches in 2003.
Boyle thanked NALC for its 50-year
affiliation with the fight against neuromuscular disease.
The 2004 Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon
will be aired September 5 and 6 from Los Angeles.
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