National Grievance File
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The Canadian Union of Postal Workers submits that the Corporation has failed to abide by Appendix “P” of the collective agreement by not maintaining the ratio of regular full-time hours in violation of paragraph 1 (b) of this Appendix.
Further, the Corporation failed to create and maintain the required number of regular full-time positions, as set out in paragraph 2 (d), to achieve, and then maintain, the aforementioned ratio.
The CUPW submits that this was a deliberate and calculated violation of the collective agreement by the employer intended to thwart the intent and spirit of Appendix “P” and clauses 39.02, 39.03 and 39.06 of the collective agreement.
On or about September 18, 2017, the Corporation initiated the implementation of a project aimed at taking tasks away from letter carriers and assigning them to routers.
More particularly, on that date, the Corporation removed from all letter carrier routes at the Laval-West facility the tasks of obtaining and preparing, sorting and preparing the mail. This work was assigned to employees performing routers duties newly created by the Corporation.
These tasks were assigned in violation of the collective agreement.
Article 50 and appendices “V” and “CC” of the collective agreement, as well as the LCRMS, provide that letter carrier routes must contain these tasks. The collective agreement also provides that the role of routers must be limited to situations where the inside portion of a given route is excessive or when a route’s daily workload forces the letter carrier to work overtime on a regular basis and she/he requires assistance.