Please participate in protecting your craft work. Please completely fill out
the following survey and mail to: Michelle Nielsen, PO Box 1422, Billings, Montana 59103
Note: You are not initiating a grievance by filling out this form. Please contact your union
representative if you feel you have a violation in your office you would like to grieve. For a
listing of MPWU officers please go to or click here -> www.mpwu.org/Eboard.
We will send you an MPWU t-shirt after receiving your completed form - one per person.
Please list the size t-shirt you'd like: _______________________.
The color we send to you will depend on what we have available.
APWU Survey of Bargaining Unit Work in Small Offices
(those offices without their own Local)
It's important that you complete the whole form.
My Name _______________________ Home Address ______________________
City/State/Zip ________________________ Home # _______________________
Office of Employment ___________________ Office phone # _________________
Today's Date ________________ Postmaster's Name ________________________
Email address _______________________ Add to the MPWU Email listing: yes or no
I am a member of the Montana Postal Workers Union - yes or no
Please send me an email invitation to join the MPWU Message Board yes or no
I'm not a MPWU member - please send me a form 1187 to sign up - yes or no
1. The Postmaster in my office performs the following amount of bargaining unit
work (window transactions and distribution tasks) - no more than ___________
per_____________ . (number of hours)
(day or week)
2. The Supervisor (if applicable) in my office performs the following amount of
non-supervisory tasks - no more than _____________ per _____________ .
(number of hours) (day or week)
3. This has been the practice in this office for ____________ years.
4. How are registered items received in your office (we have had past reports of
registers being left on docks by truck drivers with the last person signing for them
being the register clerk that handled them before they went on the truck)?
______________________________________________________________
5. Which person in your office handles bulk mailings (this is now level 6 work)?
___________________________________________________________
6. Which person does window close-out duties (also higher level 6 work)?
_____________________________________________________________
7. Is this person doing the bank deposit without someone to verify the cash and
checks? ______________________________________________________
8. Are some clerks in your office performing cross craft work (doing carrier work if
they are a clerk or doing clerk work if they are a carrier)? ________________
_____________________________________________________________
9. Who does the cleaning in your office? ________________________________
10. Who maintains the sidewalks and the outside of your facility? ______________
11. Do senior part-time flexibles (PTF's) in your office get the majority of the work
hours or are the hours equalized between all the PTF's in the office? _________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
12. Do any Postmaster Reliefs (PMR's) in your office work while the Postmaster is
also working? ____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
I verify that the above is a true and correct statement to the best of my
knowledge ______________________________________________.
(Bargaining unit employee's signature and date)
If you need additional space please use another piece of paper and attach. Please do
not send in any union questions you might have. For a listing of MPWU officers and who
to contact with your questions please go to http://www.mpwu.org/Eboard.
NOTE: If you have other employees in your office who would like to participate
in the survey please make a copy of this form. We will send one MPWU t-shirt to
any other members in your office who complete this survey.
If they are not MPWU members - have them send it over anyway - I'll make sure
they get something for their troubles.
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Rec'd on _______________________ MPWU member? _________________________
Added to Excel spread sheet ______________ T-shirt/mug/bumper sticker mailed on _____________
Copy sent to MPWU Officer's ______________ Copy sent to NBA's in Portland ________________
Added to MPWU email listing ______________ MPWU Message Board invitation emailed ___________
