2/12/16 NALC has scored a significant victory in national arbitration involving the authority of regular panel arbitrators to provide a remedy when the Postal Service wrongfully causes a letter carrier to lose accrued annual leave. In an award issued Feb. 3, 2016, National Arbitrator Dennis Nolan has rejected the Postal Service’s attempt to set a […]
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 […]
July 1, 2014 – The APWU won an important arbitration award on June 24, when Arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg ruled that the Postal Service must determine – prior to excessing employees across craft lines – that the employees meet the minimum qualifications for the new position. The APWU filed a national-level dispute on July 24, […]
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 […]
The NALC filed a grievance on October 5, 2009, objecting to the actions of one supervisor. The union claimed those actions violated the Joint Statement on Violence in the Workplace. The supervisor in this case has a long history of complaints concerning his abusive manner. In 1999, an intervention took place as the result of […]