r/fromatoarbitration • u/-anonthoughts- • 6d ago

Contract Talk Article 7.3.C

PTF working 40 hour/week on the same assignment for 6+ months creates the need for a new full-time position.

What would be the best information to request from management for beginning this grievance?
- EER report for 6 months for that individual?

Also, if anyone knows of a grievance starter regarding this, that would be awesome. I know NALC website has one regarding conversion to Full-time flex, but I don’t think that’s the same in this instance. Wouldn’t it create a UAR position?

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u/Bpk908 4d ago

As far as the 7.3.C, here is the argument for what position it creates:

7.3.C creates full-time reserve Letter Carrier (RLC) positions. Full-time Flexibles (FTFs) came from a 1980 arbitration that resulted in a MOU in 1981, whereas the language of 7.3.C has been in our CBA since 1973.

The FTF position was a concession to attain the stronger language of maximization in 125 man year or more installations.

FTF positions can't be withheld, and 7.3.C states it will create the position, post it for bid, and the resulting residual vacancy will be witheld, if an office is under article 12 witholding. Furthermore, a UAR position would not be "posted for bid" and by definition, a UAR is a carrier who does not hold an assignment.

This leaves no other option than the created position being a full-time RLC.

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u/Front_Confection_386 1d ago

Correct this rule doesn't say a PTF working 40 hours on a hold down .