OK....I was thinking today that we need to make a resolution to change the Christmas overtime issue. Since management is refusing to allow us the overtime for these 3 weeks, then we need to do away with it as it is current written and CHANGE it to something along these lines.
Abolish the Christmas over time as it stands now and replace it as follows:
Since management feels that rural carriers have no need for overtime at Christmas, the following changes need to be made. During the period from the 1st Sat in Dec running through Christmas Eve/Day, rural carriers will ONLY take out the amount of packages they are given credit for during count. This would eliminate the need for management to harass the carrier for not being back at the route's evaluation. If during count, carriers got credit for 10 packages, then they would only take out the 10 packages during Christmas. The rest would fall on management to deliver. After all, doesn't management insist it doesn't take any additional time to do them?
OK....haven't worked out any of the details yet, but....a fair way would be that a special package tracking could be done in conjunction with the count, running the same number of days as would Christmas OT period. Those # of days would determine how many packages a carrier needs to do in a given day.
Day 1 - 10 small (fit in box packages and 5 big ones........Day 2 - 8 small and 3 large. So, for those 2 days, this is how many packages would go to the carrier at Christmas. The rest would be management's problem. If they don't want to pay us to do them, then why should we have to do the work.
Just thought I would toss this out there and see what people think. LOL
Also, along the same lines, if the carrier isn't allowed OT when we're supposed to get it, then, carreirs should NOT be working over evaluations for the rest of the year. PO does the count and can royally screw carriers....thus, the EVALUATION system is NOT an incentive system (mgmt's words) and therefore should be be able to be used against the carriers by making them have to do more work than what they are paid for. Notice that this is how CITY carriers work. Even as hourly, they are only required to do a given amt of work, the rest is either additional pay or aux help.
The evaluation system is only supposed to be a "fair" means of paying the carrier. Since the PO INSISTS this is average mail volume for the year, then that same "average" is all we should be doing all year. It might force the PO to start giving fair counts.
