The Next Meeting of the APWU Local 208 Memebership will be
January 8th, 2012 at 10:00am.
The Meeting will be held in the Mail Processing Annex Conference Room.

All members are invited and encouraged to attend. 

A couple of hours of time is worth your
CAREER isn't it?

TOWN HALL MEETINGS SCHEDULED

HELENA - The Town Hall Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the Great Northern Best Western, 835 Great Northern Blvd, Helena MT.

Information to be presented can be found here:
http://about.usps.com/streamlining-operations/public-mtg-presentation-helena-01-04-12.pdf

BUTTE - The Town Hall Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 7 p.m at the Montana Tech auditorium Butte MT.

Information to be presented can be found here:
http://about.usps.com/streamlining-operations/public-mtg-presentation-butte-01-03-12.pdf
 
Contract Dates to Remember
Conversion of PTR/PTF to fulltime.
No more PTR/PTFs in Great Falls.

8/23/2011
In the clerk craft, the total number of PSEs used in mail processing (function one) within a district, shall not exceed 20% of the total number of career mail processing (function one) clerk craft employees within the district, except in accounting periods 3 and 4, beginning two years from the effective date of the contract.

5/23/2011
The casual category of supplemental employees will be eliminated within three months of the effective date of this Agreement.

8/23/2011
Not later than June 2, 2012, the Employer will eliminate the usage of 204-Bs except in the absence or vacancy of a supervisor for 14 days or more. The usage of 204-Bs in this exception is limited to no more than 90 days. The parties shall meet within 30 days of the execution of this Agreement to review the audits of EAS jobs and career position descriptions.

6/23/2011
The process of posting Non-Traditional Full-time Employee (NTFT) should begin by
7/23/2011. It will be rolled out from Headquarters with local opportunity so it will
be a gradual process.  Effective six months of the signing date of the Agreement, full-time career clerk craft employees, who are not on the Overtime Desired List and are in an installation with employees working in NTFT duty assignments in the same Function area, will not be required to work overtime.

11/23/2010
The parties agree that there will be a onetime purge of Official Disciplinary Letters of
Warning from the personnel folders of all employees represented by the
American Postal Worker Union. To qualify to be purged, a Letter of Warning must meet the following conditions:

1. An issue date prior to the effective date of the 2010 National Agreement between
the parties;

2. The Letter of Warning has been in effect for six months and has not been cited as
an element of prior discipline in any subsequent disciplinary action;

3. The Letter of Warning was not issued in lieu of a suspension or a removal action;

4. All grievances associated with any discipline purged as a result of this
Memorandum shall be withdrawn.
General Disclaimer:
Although every reasonable effort is made to
present current and accurate information regarding our new contract, the local makes no guarantee that some things will not get tweaked a bit. Tweaking refers to fine-tuning or adjusting a complex system.
Small modifications are to be expected.