NAPS to sue USPS over EAS representation issues
From the NAPS web site:
NAPS Headquarters today requested our attorneys to prepare a lawsuit against the Postal Service on the representation of EAS employees.
One issue behind the lawsuit is the denial of NAPS representation to our EAS employees at Shared Services in Greensboro. 02/04/09
February 5th, 2009 07:31
WHat is wrong with this picture, NAPS is spending the money to sue the PO over representation at Greensboro. But, they won’t spend a dime to sue the PO over pay negotiations or the fact that our NPA was pushed back an entire pay period to the first PP in Feb.
February 5th, 2009 09:05
Don’t forget the fact that our NPA goals are being shoved down our throats instead of negotiated. Add in the lack of employees to make goals and I’d be grateful to have a COLA again. The system is broke.
February 5th, 2009 10:31
Many EAS employees that have been in the management ranks for 4 or 5 years would be making more money if they had stayed in their bargaining unit job. This is not a joke, calculate it yourself and many of you will see you would have been making more money if you had stayed in the craft. We get the stress, the added work, no overtime, the lack of job protection and less money – something is wrong with this picture. Give us our COLA’s back, our steps, or really treat the merit system as merit, and not a buget balanancer unrelated to performance.
February 5th, 2009 18:55
To those who have access to liteblue.usps.gov, go to eOPF, look at your Form50s from 1991-1993 . Notice the large COLA & Step payouts– surely beats the 3 to 5%’s we get now.
February 6th, 2009 17:55
I have to agree with Bigwheel, NPA was established to give us a false sense of hope a few years ago and now look at us! Why would anyone want to go into managment when we get the shaft each year. The goals are unattainable and with staffing cuts it only gets worse. We are supposed to be paid a certain % above the craft, well that went out the window years ago. Craft gets two or three raises a year and we get what a few dollars at the beginning of the year. Why doesn’t NAPS and NAPUS focus on that!! Who are they talking about representing anyway, contract employees?? What about the abuse we as EAS take from EAS!! What about making us work more than 40 hours a week and get nothing in return. Other than it is expected of us to do this.
February 8th, 2009 19:19
USPS tried to take away our PFP this year. NAPS and NAPUS objected and we got it. . .a pay period later. The USPS is going to get even with us this fiscal year one way or another. My manager made me type in two extra goals to each of the four I already had. Those two relate to the NPA scorecard and don’t have a thing to do with me or my personal performance. Now I have a total of 12 goals to meet and I have been intentionally set up to fail and fall into the non-contributor category this year.
If people don’t agree with their ratings they are scared to challenge them. Their managers are told from higher ups deny the recourse requests. It’s a no win situation for EAS. Who cares about Greensboro? There are bigger fish to fry.
February 9th, 2009 08:57
Why not add all EAS to the NAPS,,this means HQ and HQ related. We need our COLA back
February 10th, 2009 16:00
What we need is to do whatever we can to save the organization. I say, Freeze “Everyone’s” pay for one year, close about 5 or 6 hundred post offices that we don’t need, then worry about getting a raise.
We need to close post offices, boot the unions, freeze pay, streamline HQ, Area, and District positions, and stop trying to automate mail that’s declining faster than we could have processed it in the first place.
February 13th, 2009 13:58
I agree with Spector…ONLY after closing 2-3000 small postoffices stream line all functions, then freeze pay for one year, other wise they will freeze pay and not accomplish anything else.