NPMHU offers 2022 Contract Update #2
You are reading the second Contract Update produced and distributed by the NPMHU during the course of 2022 negotiations.
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NPMHU and USPS Present Opening Statements as National Negotiations Begin in Washington D.C.
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.
APWU – National Jurisdictional Award Issued over Universal Sorting System
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.
NPMHU – Arbitrator Sharnoff Rules on Universal Sorting System (USS)
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.
NPMHU and USPS Reach Agreement to Convert 230 MHAs to Career Full-time Regular by July 22, 2022
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.
NPMHU and USPS Extend COVID-19 Test Kit Fulfillment Pilot
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.
NPMHU – COVID Command Center Termination Clarification/Modification
The NPMHU and other postal unions believed that this decision was premature in that COVID-19 numbers and hospitalizations are slowly rising as of early May 2022, and there are many medical experts predicting a summer surge of COVID infections.
NPMHU – USPS to Cease Operations of COVID Command Center
During the last 2 years the NPMHU and the USPS negotiated a series of MOUs to address COVID-19 and the impact that it had on all postal employees.