FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK
In This Edition From The President’s Desk Cont……....2-3 NDC Conner.......……………….…………..4 Nomination Announcement..…...…….…...5 Critical Year for Mail Handlers Power Cont.. …....…..…………...………………...…..6,7,8 You Have to Vote..…...…..………………...9 Happy New Year Brother and Sisters..…10 Looking in the Future...…….………..……11 Recent Development in GJ PDF...………12 This is our Last Chance..………….……...13 Accountability..………...………………13,14 MHBP Information...………………………15 Retirement Pictures………..…16,17 18,&19
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irst, I want to congratulate all 30 MHAs who recently got converted to Full Time Regular (FTR) at the Denver GMF. I also wish to congratulate all 4 MHAs at the Colorado Springs GMF, which also recently got converted to FTR. The union as fought long and hard for these conversions, we are currently By Tony Wilson working on getting 15 MHAs converPresident sion at the Denver, NDC, but lately management informed the union that they would convert 13 MHAs instead and give us four transfers. We will accept this and move forward.
A DIVISION OF THE LABORERS’ INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA
LOCAL 321 NPMHU
The Denver GMF just got a new Machine, the High-Density Universal Sorter (HDUS); this machine supposed to be the first of its type in the Nation. I am happy to announce that the Mail Handlers Craft is assigned the primary craft for this machine. Grand Junction facility will get an AFSM 100, which should boost Mail Handler's staffing in that facility. There are rumors on the work-room floor that management will be taking out one DBCS, and an AFCS 100 from that facility to facilitate the AFSM. In a separate meeting with Management, they assure the union that they have no intention to do so. We will see. Colorado Springs GMF is slated to receive an ABPS machine; management has made a requested to the union to go over the MHA CAP in that facilitythe union will consider this if Postal Management converted all the reminding 5 MHAs to FTRs in that facility and immediately converted the first three new MHAs upon hire. As you all know, that Postal Service has placed withholding on all Postal facilities within a 50-mile radius of the Denver GMF. In management, withhold notice to the union. Management stated that they are going to excess 36 clerk employees from the Denver GMF. So what does this mean for us (Mail Handlers)? Well, it is simple – (From the President’s Desk Continued on page 2)
STATE OF THE UNION
WINTER
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