Please participate in protecting your craft work. Please completely fill out the following
Small Office Survey (SOS) and mail to: Gary Phillippee, 5600 57th Ave S.W., Great Falls, MT 59404
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 you'd like: ____________________________. The color we send will
depend on what we have available. Note: If you have already rec'd a MPWU shirt for
completing a SOS - then another union-made and/or Made in the USA item will be mailed to you.
APWU Survey of Bargaining Unit Work in Small Offices (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 level ____ Office phone # __________
# of years you've worked in this office _____________ Today's date ________________
Postmaster/OIC's Name ____________________ Number of employees in your office:
_____ full-time clerks ______ PTF clerks _____ PTR clerks ______ clerk casuals
_____ Postmaster relief (PMR) ____ letter carriers _______ rural carriers ______
Other __________________________________________________________________
Email address ___________________________ Add to MPWU Email listing: yes or no
I am a member of the Montana Postal Workers Union - yes or no
I'm not a MPWU member - please send me a form 1187 to sign up - yes or no
1. My Postmaster/OIC performs the following amount of bargaining unit work (window
transactions and/or distribution tasks) - no more than _________ per _________.
(number of hours) (day or week)
2. The POA (craft employee that fills in during the Postmaster's absence) performs the
following amount of bargaining unit work (window transactions and/or distribution tasks)
no more than ____________ per _____________ when filling in for Postmaster.
(number of hours) (day or week)
3. The Supervisor/204B (if applicable) in my office performs the following amount of
non-supervisory tasks - no more than _____________ per _____________ .
(number of hours) (day or week)
4. This has been the practice in this office for ___________________ years.
NOTE: It is imperative that you give a specific number of years that you are aware
that this has been a past practice in your office. Phrases such as "for many years" or
"for as long as I can remember" cannot be accepted - please put down a specific #.
5. 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).
______________________________________________________________
6. Which person in your office handles bulk mailings? (this is higher level 7 work)
What type of employee are they - full-time clerk, PTF clerk, casual clerk, PM, OIC, etc.?
_________________________________________________________________
7. Which person does window close-out duties? (this is higher level 7 work)
What type of employee are they - full-time clerk, PTF clerk, casual clerk, PM, OIC, etc.?
_________________________________________________________________
8. Is this person doing the bank deposit without someone to verify the cash and
checks? __________________________________________________________
9. Are some employees in your office performing cross craft work (doing carrier work
if they are a clerk, doing clerk work if they are a carrier, doing clerk work if they are
a rural carrier? _____________________________________________________
10. Who does the cleaning in your office? __________________________________
Is this person a contract or postal employee? __________________________________
11. Who maintains the sidewalks and the outside of your facility? ________________
Is this person a contract or postal employee? __________________________________
12. 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? _____________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
13. 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:
_________________________________________________ ( 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/grievances 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 MPWU members in your office who complete this survey (one per person).
If they are not MPWU members - have them send it over anyway - I'll make
sure they get something for their troubles (union made or Made in USA item).
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Rec'd survey on ________________________ MPWU member? _________________________
Added to Excel spread sheet _____________ T-shirt/mug/bumpersticker mailed on ____________
Copy sent to MPWU Officer's ______________ Copy sent to NBA's in Portland ________________
Added to MPWU email listing _____________ File copy __________________________________
