Any Modifications to the 110 HCR Subcontracting Awards Must be Discussed at National Level 11/22/2016 – According to correspondence between the Postal Service and APWU, all discussions to modify any of the 110 Highway Contract Route (HCR) subcontracting must be done at the National level. In the award summary, Arbitrator Shaym Das stated, “By agreement, […]
November 7, 2014- We are extremely pleased to announce that the NPMHU has prevailed in its National arbitration against the Postal Service over the ability of the Postal Service to allow Lead Clerks to supervise or in any way to assign or direct the work of members of the Mail Handler craft. Arbitrator Das’ Award […]
212 Violations? That’s Not an ‘Isolated Incident’ 212. That’s how many times the USPS failed to properly notify the APWU of management decisions to renew Highway Contract Routes (HCRs) in one year. Yet at a recent arbitration hearing, the Postal Service urged the arbitrator to deny the union’s request for a nationwide remedy for the violations, […]
NPMHU Local 308 represents approximately 2,200 USPS mail handlers in Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Southern New Jersey. NPMHU and USPS are parties to a national collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”), The CBA provides a detailed four-step procedure for processing and deciding grievances lodged by the union. The CBA requires the union to appeal or otherwise escalate […]
July 2, 2014 – Arbitrator Shyam Das has denied a national-level grievance that protested the subcontracting of Postal Vehicle Service (PVS) operations in Columbus, OH. In an award dated May 16, Das concluded that management’s decision to convert the entire Columbus PVS operation to a Highway Contract Route “did not rise to the level of […]
The following is an arbitration award regarding excessing from the clerk craft within/outside of the installation in Oakland. The employees were excessed in 2009 to some locations in the USPS Bay Valley District, some locations as far north as Sacramento (Calif.) and as far south as Fresno, (Calif). Also, the Union’s position is that those […]
In 2013 the United States District Court granted APWU’s motion to vacate an arbitration award regarding the elimination of a injured on duty postal clerk’s position. APWU argued that the Arbitrator had exceeded his powers under relevant agreement by applying the doctrine of collateral estoppel against union . USPS appealed the 2013 judgment of the […]
Arbitrator Dennis R. Nolan has ruled that APWU members holding Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) assignments may not be excessed into full-time positions in the Letter Carrier Craft if they don’t meet the definition of full-time employees specified in the Postal Service’s contract with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC). In a decision [PDF] issued Feb. […]
NALC Delivers Halt To Excessing of Certain Clerks Omar Gonzalez, APWU Western Regional Coordinator The Letter Carriers’ Union prevailed in arbitration securing an award by Arbitrator Nolan prohibiting the Postal Service from reassigning any clerk craft employee who does not meet the definition of full-time employee under the NALC contract into a full-time carrier craft […]
HISTORIC ARBITRATION AWARD IN CFS CLASS ACTION GRIEVANCE USPS’S RECKLESS VIOLATION OF THE NATIONAL AGREEMENT PROVIDES $1,000,000.00 PLUS WINDFALL FOR 24 FORMER CFS POSTAL CLERKS According to Fredric Jacobs, Oakland, CA Local #78 President–The holiday season will be a lot merrier for 24 former Oakland, CA Computer Forwarding System (CFS) postal clerks, thanks to an […]