NALC: Memorandum signed on Joint Alternate Route Adjustment Process
TweetPresident Rolando announced May 4 that the NALC and the Postal Service have reached an agreement on the next phase of a Joint Alternate Route Adjustment Process. However, the agreement makes it clear that finalizing a number of incomplete revisits of 2009 MIARAP adjustments must be given priority over the evaluation and adjustment of routes/zones under the new JARAP.
Included among several positive changes to the process are automatic reviews of specific forms to ensure the integrity of the data being reviewed. Additionally, rather than reviewing all routes/zones nationwide, only routes/zones requested by either party will be evaluated and/or adjusted under JARAP. Local parties may also submit locally developed alternatives for adjusting routes to the national parties for review and possible approval.
“NALC is pleased to reach an agreement that improves the joint alternative process,” Rolando said. “The new agreement builds on the key principles established in the IRAP and MIARAP—no decision at any level regarding the evaluation and/or adjustment of any route can be made without the agreement of both the union and management.”
- M-01720: The 23 page joint guidelines to the new Joint Alternate Route Adjustment Process (JARAP) This includes the shaded MOU language itself.
- M-01717: The JARAP Memorandum of Understanding itself
- M-01719: MOU on prioritizing incomplete 2009 MIARAP revisits first
- M-01718: MOU on Alternative Evaluation and Adjustment Processes.
via NALC | The National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO.
May 5th, 2010 06:45
Last time, the “joint” process meant a bored, uninvolved union hack (aka: injured, lazy-ass carrier) got to sit there and watch management do whatever the hell they wanted. Thanks NALC. You suck.
May 5th, 2010 08:44
What about posting routes when a carrier looses more than 50% of their route?
May 5th, 2010 09:50
This is just another soft solution to a hard problem. It takes one hard person to make this into a one-sided scenario, and two hard people to make it a broken process.
If no decision can be made without the agreement of both the union and management, there will be many, many situations in which no decision can be made.
May 5th, 2010 15:31
Just the NALC screwing their members, AGAIN. Taking the easy way out instead of going to bat for their members.
May 5th, 2010 17:28
Why should Rolando give a rat’s ass about letter carriers? He’s in the twilight of his career and it’s been so long since he’s carried a route that he still thinks it’s done on the back of a horse. He just wants an office with a view and a nice desk to put his big feet up on.
May 5th, 2010 21:40
anyone recall the last time they asked any of us what we thought……no…….didnt think so
May 6th, 2010 05:31
There is nothing in this memorandom that helps letter carriers. The NALC needs new leadership, if it is to survive in the future. local unions cannnot protect their union members when union leaders at the top deprive stewarts of the ability to represent their members.
May 7th, 2010 06:52
Has anyone ever noticed that the NALC has NO PLACE to give them feedback? I wrote a letter once, and someone from Washington called my local president and asked him what my problem was. Um, it was in the letter, idiot! Call ME, not my union rep. THE NALC SUCKS.
May 29th, 2010 01:37
I went from walking 3 hours a day with apartments to walking 5 hours a day with apartments. When I complained they said, “it’s your route, you bid on it!”
September 3rd, 2010 22:21
Rolando must hang his balls on the coat rack before entering the room for these worthless agreements