Small Parcel Sorting System (SPSS) Arbitrator Sharnoff Decision

Arbitration Snip: "... The bottom line is that the Mail Handlers remain the primary craft for dumping and loading mail onto the SPSS and for sweeping the SPSS, while the Clerks remain the primary craft for the singulating and facing work on the SPSS and for that portion of the sweeping needed for ergonomic rotation. The arbitrator reached this conclusion for various reasons, including by analogizing to the APPS and APBS machines: [T]he Arbitrator finds, in these circumstances, that the USPS, in reaching its determination to award the “singulating”/“facing” work on the SPSS to the Clerk Craft, was acting in a manner which was consistent with its determination of the award of jobs on these two machines, with the assignment of such duties to the Mail Handlers on the APPS in light of the limited amount of such work to be performed and to the Clerks on the APBS in light of the more significant amount of such work required. To that extent, the Arbitrator finds that the USPS, in awarding the “singulating”/“facing” work on the SPSS to the Clerks as the Primary Craft, based in part on the assignment of such work to the Clerks on the APBS, was not acting in a manner which was arbitrary or an abuse of its discretion...Read Full Decision Here"

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CITATION REFERENCE RELATING TO: Small Parcel Sorting System (SPSS): Case Nos. Q11M-6Q-J 15281315 & Q10C-4Q-J 15291805;(Small Parcel Sorting System -Merits)