On December 1, positions considered part time flexible were eliminated and many were converted to full-time in every postal facility older than 200 work-years were, the American Postal Workers Union has announced.
"As the result of contract negotiations, Clerk Craft PTFs will disappear as a job category in every postal installation of 200 work-years or more," said APWU president William Burrus.
"This has been a long-standing objective of postal employees, and it has finally been achieved," he added.
According to the union, there were about 10,000 clerk craft PTFs in the approximately 440 installations meeting conversion criteria last January.
"In the not-too-distant future we may forget that generations of postal employees who began their careers in the Clerk Craft did so as PTFs," Burrus said.
He said the union would continue trying to get PTFs in smaller offices converted to full time positions.
USPS offices must also now begin limiting the number of casuals they employ as well, the union said, adding that as of December 1, with the exception of accounting periods 3 and 4, at most six percent of APWU-represented employees may be employed as casuals.
