To be voted on at the May 21, 2017 General Membership meeting.

CURRENT LANGUAGE:

Article 10-ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND DELEGATES

Section 9

The President shall, with the 2/3 majority approval of the Executive Board, appoint a member in good standing, to fill the unexpired term of a general executive board member who has vacated his/her position. Vacancies of Craft officers shall be filled by nomination and vote of Craft members present at a special election meeting.

PROPOSED CHANGE TO CURRENT LANGUAGE:

Article 10-ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND DELEGATES

Section 9

The President shall, with the 2/3 majority approval of the Executive Board, appoint a member in good standing, to fill the unexpired term of an a general executive board member who has vacated his/her position. Vacancies of Craft officers shall be filled by nomination and vote of Craft members present at a special election meeting.

NEW LANGUAGE:

Article 10-ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND DELEGATES

Section 9

The President shall, with the 2/3 majority approval of the Executive Board, appoint a member in good standing, to fill the unexpired term of an executive board member who has vacated his/her position.

On Friday April 14, 2017 Vice-President Bill Martin, Clerk Craft Director Kevin Fraser and I attended a meeting with the Senior Plant Manager, District Manager and Human Resources Manager. This was just a short “heads up” meeting. We expect many more to come. The service has determined that mail volume has reached a point that they need to abolish and re-post duty assignments. This is allegedly due to a national applications called “Workforce Dashboard” and “Job Bid Management”. We all know what has happened with their previous national programs. If you remember “Four Walls” or “OWC”, we all know how well that worked out. Within days we all knew it wasn’t working. Within weeks and months, the service started to pack it in. The problem with national programs is that local management goes along with it, no matter what the local circumstances. The service claims that 67 districts are going through this process. One size does not fit all.  How many of those 67 will be consolidating three mail processing facilities into one building in less then a year?

The service would like to eliminate Non-Traditional duty assignments in the Portland city stations. At the same time they would like to move mail for DPS processing from the Portland P&DC to the Mt. Hood P&DC.  The service claims this will result in re-posting and abolishment of duty assignments and laying off of PSE’s.  The service hopes the PSE’s let go in Portland will go to work at Mt. Hood P&DC. The service would like to see this process completed in June. We will be meeting regularly on this issue as well as the consolidating of Mt. Hood P&DC with the Portland Installation.

May 21 and June 14 will be the next General Membership meetings.    As new details become available we will be updating the members at those meetings as well as on the local website and Facebook page.

The Postal Service, as of April 26, still does not know what the details are  for the city stations and have not provided any new information for the stations or P&DC’s.   The service stated that they hope to have more details around May 3.

At the February membership meeting Kevin Fraser was elected to fill the vacant Clerk Craft Director position.

The January meeting is scheduled for January 29, 2017, 6:30 pm.

The Clerk Craft Director Election meeting and February General Membership meeting are  scheduled for February 12, 2017, 6:30 pm.

Appreciation to all the Officers that were able to come in during the recent weather events. Vice President Bill Martin, Secretary/ Treasurer Debbie Battle, Director of Education Cheryl Walton, Director of Legislation Daniel Cortez and Director of Associate Offices Verna Matthews.

The Annual Recognition Luncheon has been rescheduled for Sunday February 12, 2017.  Please RSVP by Friday February 3, 2017.  Please be aware that the invitations went out stating Saturday, the event is Sunday,  February 12th.

Riverview Restaurant 29311 SE Stark St.  Troutdale OR 97060 12:30 pm

The Executive board will be meeting on January 11, 2017 at 1:00 pm.  One of the issues the board will be addressing is the rescheduling of the January General Membership and the Clerk Craft Director election meetings. All members are welcome to attend.

The Local Executive Board has made the decision to cancel the membership and
Special Election meetings scheduled for January 8,2017. Ice is a problem all over the surrounding areas.  The Special Election meeting will be re-scheduled in accordance with the Local constitution.

The Portland Oregon Local APWU annual retirement/recognition luncheon is scheduled for January 7 @ 12:30.  At this time the weather is uncertain.  Snow, ice and rain are all in the forecast.   We will update the status of the event on Friday afternoon, January 6, 2017 via the Local Website and Facebook page.  Any question or concerns, please call the local office.

The Portland Clerk, Maintenance and Motor Vehicle Craft LMOU’s have been posted in the Local Memorandum of Understanding section.