"The steward is clearly the union's first line of defense. The steward can and should act to file grievances when he or she discovers a wrongful action by the employer."
- Alex Aleman (July 2002 Dispatch)

Downloads
Forms, Manuals, Handbooks


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  • SAAAL Constitution and By Laws - MS Word Format   |   Updated Jan, 2008
  • SAAAL LMOU Word
  • APWU Form 1187 - (Authorization for Deduction of Dues - PDF)
  • Bargaining Unit Work Log Word - Supervisors/Managers/Carriers Performing Clerk Work - Please use this log to report non-Clerks performing Clerk Duties. This information is essential in filing grievances and returning our work to the Clerk Craft. The job you save may be your own!
  • Doctors Certification Word - The Union Office has developed the attached form that members can use when management requires medical documentation (warranted or not). This form should be sufficient for this requirement. Whether the requirement is justified would be the subject of an investigation by the steward. Hopefully this form will make it easier on those members who are unclear of the exact requirements for proper documentation to include the specific "incapacitated".
  • Work Hours Tracking Sheet Word - The local produced the work sheet to keep track of your hours. We cannot rely on management to accurately account for our paid hours. Use the form for accountability and ask for the Every Thing report to ensure your hours have been accounted for.
  • Remain Live Bidder Word - When you are awarded a job (successful bidder) please use this form when requesting to remain a live bidder on a previous bulletin. Remember that failure to do so will result in cancellation of all previous bids.

  • CA 1 pdf - Federal Employee's Notice of Traumatic Injury Claim for Continuation of Pay/Compensation
  • CA 2 pdf - Notice of Occupational Disease and Claim for Compensation
  • CA 2a pdf - Notice of Employee's Recurrence of Disability and Claim for Pay/Compensation
  • CA 7 pdf - Claim for Injured on Duty Compensation
  • CA 7a pdf - Time Analysis Form
  • CA 7b pdf - Leave Buy-Back Worksheet/Certification Form
  • CA 10 pdf - What a Federal Employee Should Do When Injured at Work
  • CA 11 pdf - When Injured at Work Information
  • CA-14 pdf - OWCP process for notifying claimants of their entitlements and claim number
  • CA 17 pdf - Duty Status Report
  • CA-810 - A handbook for Federal agency personnel specialists, compensation specialists, and supervisors prepared by OWCP, ESA and DOL for dealing with injured employees.
  • Fit For Dutypdf - Management Instructions - Provides information about the levels of fitness-for-duty examinations and their application by Postal Srvice and consultative medical personnel
  • Workers Comppdf - Relationship Between Retirement Annuity and Compensation for Work-Related Injuries and Diseases - An employee who is disabled or injured in the line of duty may be eligible for workers' compensation benefits from the Department of Labor and how the employee's entilement to workers' compensation benefits affects present and future retirement and survivor annuity rights under CSRS and FERS
  • EL 307pdf - Guidelines on Reasonable Accommodations
  • EL 401pdf - Supervisor's Guide to Scheduling and Premium Pay
  • EL 505pdf - Injury Compensation Procedures
  • EL 801 pdf - Supervisor's Safety Hanbook
  • EL 860 pdf - Employee Medical Records
  • EL 921 - SUPERVISORS GUIDE TO HANDLING GRIEVANCES in MSWORD format. Thanks to the Denver Local.
  • F-21 Time and Attendance Hanbook pdf

  • Pub 133pdf - What You Need to Know About EEO
  • Pub 317 pdf Managers Guide to Reasonable Accommodation
  • Pub 223 - Directives and Forms Catalog -Updated With Postal Bulletin Revisions Through September 18, 2003

  • DMM - in pdf or HTML - The DMM is the mailers' Bible, providing detailed information about the latest rates and rules for mail, such as eligibility, preparation, sortation, rates, fees, worksharing discounts and the availability of special services.

Caution on the Use of USPS Publications
Note: Check for the latest issue. The Postal Service updates its various manuals and handbooks according to different schedules. (For instance, the ELM has been revised several times during the past couple of years.) To see if you have the current edition of a particular publication, obtain the latest Publication 223, Directives and Forms Catalog, from the USPS Web site, http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub223/welcome.htm. Use the site’s search function to locate a publication.

  Steward Resources
Stewards Update

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  Steward Training Manuals



Grievance Forms

  • Step 1 Grievance Outline Worksheetpdf
  • Step 2 Grievance Appeal Formpdf
  • Step 3 Grievance Appeal Formpdf
  • Appeal to Arbitration From Step 2 Formpdf
  • Request for Informationpdf


    Ode To The Shop Steward


    author unknown

    Who Is The Person Of Lowly Pay
    With The Haggard Look And Hair Of Gray ?
    Who Gets No Rest By Day Or Night,
    Who Is Always Wrong And Never Right.
    Who Doesn't Have A Law Degree,
    But Who Goes To Bat For You And Me.
    Though Seldom Have They Been To College
    They Must Possess The Widest Knowledge
    Of Labor Grades And When To Grieve,
    Of Vacation Pay And Sickness Leave.
    Of Overtime And Who's To Do It,
    And Coffee Time And Who's To Brew It.
    Then How and Which And Why And When
    And All The Problems Known To Men.
    If With The Foreman They Agree,
    Then They're The Rats Who Have Weak Knees.
    But, If To The Workers They Try To Cater,
    Then They're Branded As Agitators.
    The Guy Or Gal Who Has To Take The Slop,
    Is Proudly Called Steward Of The Shop !





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