July 21, 2012
"This is an excellent win for all postal workers! NALC in Los Angeles
went to arbitration concerning an abusive supervisor and the zero
tolerance policy."
"The USPS had already fired the supervisor after the Union filed this
grievance and the removal was upheld in MSPB. But the arbitrator
goes after the Los Angeles District Manager for their lack of
enforcing their own "ZERO TOLERANCE" policy. The district Manager
has to now do a written apology to the employees at the Redondo
Beach Office and, in addition, has to go there and apologize to each
person for not taking any action sooner."
"Notice the date of the hearing and the award are both July 13, 2012."
21 Century Postal Worker
Via Louis M. Kingsley Jr.
California State Maintenance Craft Director
Arbitration / Staffing Advocate
Award Summary:
Redondo Beach Post Office management and Los Angeles District
Management violated the Joint Statement on Violence and Behavior in
the Work Place when local management engaged ignored and Los Angeles
District Management failed to act on a supervisor's egregious
conduct in sexually harassing, bullying, intimidating, threatening,
humiliating and demeaned letter carriers in the Redondo Beach Post
Office. The remedy shall be as stated on pages 3 and 4 of this
decision.
PostalReporter note: MSPB remanded the Postal Supervisor's case to
the Regional Office. It is not clear if the supervisor's case has
been settled.
USPS ZeroTolerance Arb Award 7-13-12
NALC Arbitration Award - F06N-4F-C 10264533 - July 13, 2012 [pdf]
