Long Awaited Impact Statement Is Finally Out

On Friday, August 21, 2009 Plant Manager Dave Caproni informed the APWU and Mail Handlers unions that he had received the impact statement from Area concerning NDC activation. The impact statement determines the number of jobs that will be eliminated. For the Cincinnati NDC, a total of 89 employees will be impacted. This means Area has determined that after we become a tier 1 NDC we will no longer need 89 employees. The majority of these will be casual positions. The number that may be excessed outside the facility may be reduced or eliminated through attrition in the other crafts.

At this time, management has not “officially” notified the Unions of the need to excess any employees. The sole intent of the information shared on Friday was to allow the Unions to hear it directly from management instead of through rumors. No APWU represented employee in this building has been notified that they will be excessed. Management is still required to give the Union 6 months notice prior to excessing.

Based on other NDC conversions around the country we expected Motor Vehicle to be the APWU craft impacted the most. Regrettably, the impact for our facility is a reduction of 14 TTO’s. Again, management is still required to give the Union 6 months notice prior to excessing and as of today’s date, no such notice has been given While no other APWU employees are impacted at this time, a secondary impact statement normally occurs approximately 3 months after the conversion. This secondary statement will be based on mail volume.

NDC activation is scheduled to begin October 19th and be completed by November 20th, 2009. In fact all 21 NDC’s are slated to be online by the November 20th deadline. The APWU will continue to vigorously enforce the contract during this conversion.