Dear Small Office Montana Postal Workers Union Member,
       
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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Please don't write below this line ------------------------------
   
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 __________________________________
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