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"Shall not be displaced..." By Jeff Riddell, Vice President Article 37 is the clerk craft section of our National Agreement. This section consists of 39 pages of mutually agreed upon items that deal directly with our lives, both on and off the clock. Article 37.3.F.10 states, "Normally, the successful bidder shall work the duty assignment as posted and shall not be displaced by a junior employee. This does not prohibit the employer from assigning other employees to work the assignment for training purposes." This section of the contract has been there since I started in 1981. It has not been modified or changed. Article 37.3.E establishes what that assignment is. It is specific in nature, to your particular bid. Principal assignment area is not window/distribution. If you are a window/distribution clerk, who has a scheme, with a 0450 begin tour, and as contractually required, the bid states that the physical requirements (article 37.3.E.7) include repetitive bending and lifting of parcels, then your principal assignment area is parcel post. That is what you cannot be displaced from. That is your duty assignment. This is not an opinion; this is what the contract says. If you are the A.M. cage clerk, then be the A.M. cage clerk. Stop being a ping pong ball, to be bounced around at your supervisor's whim. If you bid a window job, then that is your job. You are not to be replaced at the window by the box clerk, and you put in the box section simply because you get the mail up faster. That is the box clerk's job. Article 37.3.E.5 mandates that each job has a principal assignment area. You have the right to know what you will be doing. Do not give your rights away! |
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