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The Twig of the Branch Branch 1477 West Coast Florida Letter Carriers The Twig of the Branch Branch 1477 West Coast Florida Letter Carriers Serving: St. Petersburg — Largo — Dunedin — Pinellas Park — Indian Rocks Beach Punta Gorda — Englewood— Bradenton Beach — Palmetto — Ellenton VOLUME 604 VOICE OF BRANCH 1477 March, 2020 Inside This Issue: PRESIDENT’S REPORT By President Joe Henschen President’s Report 1-2 by Joe Henschen Twitter @ JaHe1 St. Pete Grand Prix 2 MDA Annual Golf Outing 3 This month is dedicated to the members of Branch 36 who on March 17, Entry Form 1970, voted to walk off the job, then backed it up. Executive Vice President 4-5 article—Hubble’s Troubles On Saturday March 21, 2020 at the Manhattan Center, 311 W. 34th Street by Chris Hubble New York NY 1000 where the vote took place the NALC will Vice President 5 commemorate the Wildcat Strike of 1970 and honor the heroes who went by Zulma Betancourt out on strike. Editor’s Corner 5-7 th by Judy Dorris Celebrating the 50 anniversary of the walkout in New York City Last Punch Retiree 7 It can be difficult for letter carriers to understand what it was like for our Minutes of the Branch 7-9 brethren to have launched, at 12:01 a.m. on March 18, 1970, what is now by Recording/Financial Secretary called the Great Postal Strike. Today, we are guaranteed a decent wage Ken Grasso and benefits, are protected from management abuses, and are Sergeant at Arms 9 represented by a strong union. But it wasn’t always like that. by Clay Hansen Auxiliary 181 News 9 Letter carriers in the late 1960s were poorly paid and denied collective by Dottie Tutt-Hutchinson bargaining rights. Their low pay and benefits were dictated by Post Office Meetings and Breakfast 10 managers and a negligent Congress. Attendees Postal workers had suffered a 50-year losing streak beginning with World Union’s Data Page 11 War I. Pay scales were frozen, then cut back, and even the prosperity of Calendar 12 the 1950s passed them by as President Dwight Eisenhower vetoed four bills to raise postal salaries. By 1967, things were so bad that post office NEXT BRANCH MEETING: THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2020 AT THE LETTER CARRIER HALL job turnover was around 25 percent a year, and the ability to arbitrate contract disputes and unsurprising with many carriers having to work a enforce members’ rights. Too often, we assume second job or take food stamps to support things have always been the way they are, but the themselves and their families. Letter carriers became foundation for today’s postal workplace was laid by increasingly frustrated about being bullied and the strikers of 1970. As we have for each of the last denied a living wage. 50 years, we remember - and thank - the brave men and women who made the present and future Our union, the National Association of Letter better for all of us when they put their jobs and Carriers, was caught between a political rock and a freedom at risk by going on strike.¹ legal hard place. Congress was incapable of raising wages and letter carriers couldn’t go on strike There is a great deal more to this story. The hall because of a law against strikes by government has a several copies of “Carriers in a Common employees. Cause A History of Letter Carriers and the NALC” They are available for any member interested in Complicating matters, President Richard Nixon our history. proposed in May 1969 to replace the cabinet-level ____________________________ Post Office with a self-supporting postal corporation. ¹ “What prompted the Great Postal Strike” NALC and other postal unions objected because the March 2014 Postal Record. plan would have kept the ban on strikes while stripping away Civil Service benefits and job ____________________________________________ protections. In June, NALC President James Rademacher announced a court challenge to the federal no-strike ban. A week later, he testified before Congress warning of a strike over the low postal pay. That wasn’t enough for many members. Within New York Branch 36, a “rank-and file movement” had formed around 23-year carrier Vincent Sombrotto, who later became NALC president. They pressed the union for meaningful action. On March 12, 1970, Branch 36 President Gus Johnson was interrupted at a branch meeting as he described a compromise reform bill, worked out BRANCH 1477 and the SUNSHINE CITY secretly between Presidents Nixon and Rademacher. CARRIERS CHARITIES INC. Shouts broke out: “No, no! Not enough! Strike! Enough talk! Strike!” Volunteers wanted to staff concessions A tumultuous debate ended with agreement to hold a at the 2020 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg strike vote on March 17. When the tally was March 13-15 announced at 11 p.m., the branch had voted 1,555 yes, 1,055 no - an almost 3-to-2 margin in favor of a We need 40 volunteers over the 3-day strike. event to staff food and beverage concessions. At the stroke of midnight, members of Branch 36 began setting up picket lines around post offices Cooks and Cashiers are in high demand. throughout Manhattan and the Bronx. Within hours, No experience necessary other branches joined in and the wildcat strike eventually spread to other cities across the land. Please call (727) 531-1477 to volunteer or for additional information The end result of the strike was that Congress passed the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, creating the U.S. Postal Service. It gave postal unions the power to bargain for wages and benefits, 2 Mail Completed Entry and Fees to: Branch 1477 MDA 5369 Park Blvd. Pinellas Park , Florida 33781 Attention Golf Outing The Sunshine City Carriers Proudly Present NALC Branch 1477 / MDA Registration: Golf Outing _________________________ Title Sponsor Player Fuccillo / Nissan Automotive Group _________________________ Player Date: Sunday, April 26, 2020 Time: _________________________ Player Brunch served at 11:30 AM Shotgun start 1:00PM Format: Scramble _________________________ Player Award Presentation Following _________________________ Seminole Lake Country Club Captain Team Contact Information: 6100 Augusta Blvd. Include: Address/Phone Seminole Fl. 33777 Entry: $70 / $280 Event Sponsorship Available for To Secure a spot all registration and fees information contact: Glenn Fagan (727) 741-2006 Cell or due by April 7th , 2020 (727) 531-1477 work 3 ELM Section 434.61 Policy 434.611 General Out– of–schedule premium is paid to eligible full-time Hubble’s Troubles bargaining unit employees for time worked outside By Executive Vice President, of and instead of their regularly scheduled workday Chris Hubble or workweek when employees work on a temporary schedule at the request of management. Out-of- schedule premium pay provisions are applicable only when management has given advance notice Don’t be confused, is it temporary and/or of the change of schedule by Wednesday of the permanent…. preceding service week. You come back to the office and there is a notice on 434.612 Timely Notice Payment of out-of-schedule the time clock to all carriers which reads: “All ODL, premium is dependent on timely notice being given WA and CCAs, report at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow. Non- by management of the temporary schedule ODL and 8 hour note carriers, report at their normal change, as follows: starting time”. Every regular in the office, has a permanent scheduled starting time of 8:00 a.m. in a. If notice of a temporary change is given to an this particular office. Can they change our schedule employee by Wednesday of the preceding like that with only a day’s notice? The simple answer service week, even if this change is revised is yes, but that is not the end of it. While we have a later, the employee’s time can be limited to the regular starting time, management does have the hours of the revised schedule, and out-of- right to make changes to our starting time. However, schedule premium is paid for those hours this right is not without consequence. The employer’s worked outside of and instead of his or her rights to change our schedule are mitigated by the regular schedule. contractual provisions found in Article 8 (JCAM pages 8-4 through 8-7), which may require additional b. If notice of a temporary schedule change is not payment to carriers. given to the employee by Wednesday of the preceding service week, the employee is entitled With the additional parcel volume and changing mail to work his or her regular schedule. Therefore, mix, temporary changes to carrier schedules have any hours worked in addition to the employee’s become more common. When temporary schedule regular schedule are not worked “instead of” his changes occur based on the needs of the service or her regular schedule. The additional hours and not for the convenience of the employee, full- worked are not considered as out-of-schedule time regular carriers are entitled to additional premium hours. Instead, they are paid as compensation designated as out-of-schedule overtime hours worked in excess of 8 hours per premium pay. Out-of-schedule premium pay is service day or 40 hours per service week. distinctly different than overtime pay. Out-of- schedule pay is paid at the same rate as overtime; These provisions apply to acting supervisors however, out-of-schedule pay is not calculated (204b) who perform work outside of their regular toward overtime totals for the week. In addition, out schedule as well. Letter Carriers serving in a of-schedule hours are not considered as hours temporary supervisory position (204b) are still worked or opportunities for overtime equitability considered to be craft employees.
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