A few days ago (August 11, 2015) the Mail Handlers Union “filed an appeal to arbitration concerning the disputed work on the Small Parcel Sorting System (SPSS), as well as an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).” Now, the NPMHU has filed a federal lawsuit requesting the court to halt USPS’s decision to award primary craft duties on SPSS to APWU.
Late Thursday, August 13, 2015, the NPMHU National Office filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service, claiming that the USPS breached its binding contractual obligations when it unilaterally announced a reversal of its earlier determination that the primary craft for operating the Small Parcel Sorting System is the Mail Handler craft. The NPMHU is seeking a declaration that the Postal Service has breached the tripartite agreement on jurisdictional craft assignments, as well as injunctive and monetary relief to remedy this breach. The APWU also has been named in the suit, as a required party to any litigation on this subject. The suit is now pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Legal actions raising related, but distinct challenges also have been initiated under the RI-399 Dispute Resolution Procedures and through unfair labor practice charges at the National Labor Relations Board.
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Get a life! Screw the PO and the unions.I am no more! Goodbye and good rid dens to all you morons. Carpe Diem! Vayanse todos pa la mierda! There was nothing better than to sit in judgment of an RI-399 panel hearing and watching the greedy unions go at each other’s throats. Great entertainment!
divide and conquer……..been used by armies going back centuries. mailhandlers union never got the memo. clerks union not much better.
Such fighting between the two unions that do 100 percent of the mail-processing is not going 2 lead 2 cooperation needed 2 efficiently move the mail; especially USPS’ s growing and profitable parcels operations.