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).
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.
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.
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.
Attached to this letter is a new MOU signed by the NPMHU and the Postal Service to provide for additional Mail Handler staffing by converting 230 Mail Handler Assistants to full-time regular career employment no later than July 22, 2022.
Since the Biden administration has made available a third round of free COVID-19 test kits for the public, the parties have agreed to extend this COVID-19 Test Kit Fulfillment Pilot for an additional 63 days ending July 29, 2022.
NALC and the Postal Service have reached agreements on two new memorandums of understanding (MOUs) to adjust staffing, maintain compliance with the contractual caps on city carrier assistant (CCA) employment in several districts, and move to an all-career model in a number of installations across the country.
The APWU and the Postal Service have agreed to a moratorium on grievances, disciplinary actions and arbitration hearings at the national, regional, state and local levels from August 8 through August 22, 2022
While postal workers already enjoy quality health insurance, the APWU believes that a single-payer system like Medicare for All would benefit not only the uninsured, but postal workers as well.
The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will conduct its annual national food drive this Saturday, May 14. NALC’s food drive, first held in 1993, helps feed millions of Americans.