Excessing: Know Your Rights

Don't be intimidated by the process or management. Familiarize yourself with the process.

From the APWU national website:

Excessing: Know Your Rights

Burrus

Update 06-2009, May 14, 2009
In response to significant reductions in mail volume and revenue, postal management is aggressively adjusting employee complements. These modifications are generating thousands of excessing notices to local unions and employees, indicating that junior full-time employees will be reassigned to other crafts or more distant facilities.
Through collective bargaining, the union and management have established rules governing the reassignment of employees, and it is important that the rules be followed.
Unfortunately, management seems to be engaged in a dangerous game of “chicken” with workers — hoping to reduce the complement by coercing employees to resign. Management is attempting to accomplish this insidious deed by “reassigning” employees to non-existent positions in facilities far from the employees’ homes....

...More information about the rights of employees when they are excessed can be found on the APWU Web site in the pamphlet, “When Excessing Occurs.” [PDF]
For more information on the rights of limited duty/rehab employees when being excessed, visit the Human Relations Department pages of the APWU Web site.

William Burrus President