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Contract COLA: Accumulated COLA is $1,810 through June 2022 The projected accumulation toward the sixth regular COLA under the 2019-2023 National Agreement stood at $1,810 annually in June following the release of the May 2022 Consumer Price Index. On June 10, 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the CPI for Urban Wage Earners … Read more
A Negotiated Service Agreement (NSA) is a customized and mutually beneficial contractual agreement between the U.S. Postal Service and a specific mailer, customer, or organization to retain price-sensitive customers and encourage additional mail volume and revenue.
The National Postal Mail Handlers Union bargaining team met with representatives of the U.S. Postal Service on June 10, 2022 to mark the official start of the collective bargaining process for a successor agreement to replace the current National Agreement which is scheduled to expire on September 20, 2022.
Starting June 14 through July 15 2022, the USPS is pushing its annual Postal Pulse Survey. The APWU leadership urges you to not let the Postal Service take your Pulse!
The U.S. Postal Service enters into customer agreements to provide customers with customized shipping solutions and mailing incentives. These agreements provide mutual benefits for the Postal Service and its customers.
Our objective was to summarize the results of prior property condition reviews of Postal Service retail facilities, identify systemic issues, and assess the effectiveness of management’s corrective actions.
Our objective was to determine whether the Postal Service ensured that it did not lose critical knowledge when employees transferred within or left the organization (due to retirement, resignation, reduction in force, or other reason).
Our objective was to determine whether the Postal Service has effective controls to ensure supplier compliance with contract requirements for key personnel qualifications and substitutions.
Arbitrator Sharnoff upheld the Postal Service’s 2019 determination that all operations on the USS should be assigned to the Mail Handlers, except for the Scan Where You Band Operation which he determined to be properly assigned to the Clerk Craft.
We are pleased to report that the NPMHU has prevailed in its National RI-399 dispute concerning jurisdictional assignments on the Universal Sorting System or USS.