Federal Court rejects Fired Disabled Postal Clerk’s Retaliation suit

October 9, 2019 Case: Disability Discrimination/Retaliation (D. Alaska) After a bench trial, a federal district court in Alaska rules that a discharged disabled mail processing clerk for the U.S. Postal Service failed to show that he was discharged in retaliation for filing an informal EEO complaint five years earlier and complaining about the terms of […]

APWU: District Court Orders Clarification in Arbitration Award on BMC Staffing

03/24/2016 – The Postal Service sidestepped a fight in federal court on March 16 over enforcement of an Oct. 19, 2015, arbitration award on staffing at Bulk Mail Centers (BMCs).  After the USPS filed a “consent motion,” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered interpretation of the award to be returned to Arbitrator Ira F. Jaffe. The […]

Postal Supervisor Loses Lawsuit on Hostile Work Environment

Postal Supervisor Claimed A Hostile Work Environment aggravated his medical condition and USPS failed to investigate. The following facts are based upon the allegations in John Pell’s amended complaint filed in the United States District Court and information from the EEOC case. Pell is a former employee of the USPS who worked at the Framingham, […]

APWU To Appeal District Court Decision On Address Management System Work

Fr: Greg Bell, Director Industrial Relations Date: June 1, 2010 Re: Decision of Federal District Court on Address Management System Work Enclosed you will find a copy of a recent decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia regarding the enforceability of a 2003 award by Arbitrator Snow in which he ruled […]