04/24/09

• What is "Closed Bidding"?

  Closed Bidding occurs when employees have been excessed out of a section.  Those excessed employees have retreat rights back to the section from which they were excessed.  To protect those retreat rights, only clerks in the affected section are allowed to bid on Closed Biding jobs.  If a residual vacancy results from the closed bidding, then an excessed employee may retreat back to the section.

• Why are the Window jobs not subject to Closed Bidding?

  The LV LMOU defines a "section" as Level and Tour.  So when excessing from one tour to another it goes by level and tour.  There are, however, two exceptions to this rule.  The LMOU states in Item 18a and 18b that the Window and Bulk Mail Room are separate sections, by tour.  So, when it comes to excessing within the facility there are literally nine (9) different sections.  They are:

Tour 1 - Level 06 jobs

Tour 1 - Level 07 jobs

Tour 2 - Level 06 jobs

Tour 2 - Level 07 jobs

Tour 2 - Window jobs

Tour 2 - Bulk Mail jobs

Tour 3 - Level 06 jobs

Tour 3 - Level 07 jobs

Tour 3 - Bulk Mail jobs

• How long will the Closed Bidding last? 

  The Closed Bidding provisions will remain in place until every employee excessed from a section has had the opportunity to return to that section.  In our case, there are two sections affected:  T-2 Level 06 and T-2 Level 07.  When all clerks with retreat rights, to each particular section, have been given a chance to use those retreat rights the bid restrictions for that section will be lifted.

 

If you have other questions, related to Closed Bidding, Excessing, or T-2 Compression e-mail them to us so that we can share the information with other members. 

 

04/22/09

Management has informed the union that jobs will be posted on Friday, April 24, 2009.  The successful bidders of those jobs will be placed into the jobs effective Saturday, May 16, 2009.  The posting will consist of two separate bidding procedures.  The first will be a posting of jobs for the whole facility to bid on.  The second will be jobs remaining on T-2 that are subject to Closed Bidding. 

Whole Facility Posting:   This posting will consist of new jobs with 12:30 starts and all currently vacant jobs.  The 12:30 jobs will replace the T-2 jobs that are being eliminated.  The drop days of the new jobs will remain the same as as the T-2 jobs with two exceptions.  A Sun/Wed drop day job will be posted as Mon/Tue and a Sat/Fri job will be posted as Mon/Tue.  Management wanted to change the days off of many more jobs, particularly those with weekends off.  We were able to convince management to post them unchanged.  Four of the 12:30 jobs will have a back-up of some type added to the job.  Also anticipated to be on the posting will be:

• Two (2) Window Clerk Positions

  • One (1) T-7 position which requires clerks have one year experience to be eligible to bid. 

  • One (1) Level 06 window job which had been previously reverted.  (The Union filed a grievance on the reversion and a recent settlement means that this job will be posted for bids.)

• The vacant jobs expected to be posted include one (1) T-1 LV Box job, one (1) T-1 automation job, and one (1) T-3 automation job.

Closed Bidding Posting:   This posting will consist of jobs remaining on T-2.  Because management has chosen to excess employees off T-2, all jobs posted for T-2 must be limited to current T-2 employees.   Clerks on T-1 and T-3, even those with retreat rights, are prohibited from bidding jobs on this Close Bid posting.  The Closed Bid posting will consist of:

• Two (2) L-07 Expeditor jobs starting at 11:00 am.  Bidding for these jobs is restricted to current T-2 L-07 Clerks only.

• Five (5) L-06 AI FSM jobs starting at 11:00 am.  These jobs will have multiple back-ups.  Only T-2 L-06 Clerks may bid on these. 

• One (1) General Clerk (POOMs Office) job which has a typing requirement of 45 words per minute.  This job has a start time of 09:00 am.

• One (1) Timekeeper, one (1) General Clerk (MODS), and one (1) Nixie Clerk job with start times on 07:00 will be posted. 

     The Union believes that an additional L-07 Expeditor position, starting at 12:30, should be created and posted.  We have also been informed that there will be no 18:00 or 21:00 start time jobs included in the whole facility posting.  Management stated they will address these jobs on the next posting.