Results of a recent study shows RSMC members are working longer hours than are currently reflected by CPC calculations and the CUPW Transition Committee is meeting to resolve this issue.

At present RMSC hours are based on a Route Management System. At issue was the way in which work times are calculated. In order to do that the Working Group studied the six elements that Appendix C of the Collective Agreement identified. 

Those elements included external values

• Rural Mail Boxes (RMBs)
• Community Mail Boxes (CMB)
• Groups Mail Boxes (GMBs)
• Business Points of Calls (POC’s)
• Driving Time

Internal values included

• Business Sortation

These elements are the key to calculation of RSMC hours worked and CUPW is determined to see that actual hours worked are reflected in member earnings.

In order to achieve the documentation that is required to prove hours worked are underrated the CUPW Working Group used scientifically-based analysis to study the issue.

In one example of the work that went into the study, routes were selected in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Both internal and external activities were studied. It included sortation and delivery of mail to business points of call as well as vehicle travel time. One day of study was taken for the following routes. These were the routes studied.

In another area five days of observation were done per RSMC route.

A report of the Working Group study was submitted to the Transition Committee in May. Meetings are being held to determine recommendations that will give representatives the information needed in order to come to a resolution of the issue with CPC.

The study and the results will form the bases of recommendations put forward to the National Executive Board to assist in the negotiations of the distribution of the   $ 4.1 million financial cap this summer.