Web News Article #: 100-2017 10/26/2017 – After several meetings with the Postal Service, we are happy to inform you that we were able to SETTLE the outstanding issue of using the newly created eWHEP in a BMC environment. The attached Step 4 Settlement, N19T20160356, dated October 19, 2017 states: After reviewing this matter the…
07/06/2016 – In a supplemental decision issued on July 5, Arbitrator Ira Jaffe ruled in favor of the APWU on staffing at Bulk Mail Centers (BMCs), also known as Network Distribution Centers (NDCs). The supplemental decision clarified an Oct. 19, 2015, award in which Arbitrator Jaffe ruled that the USPS violated Article 19 of the…
Attached please find the award of Arbitrator Jaffe on whether the Service violated Article 19 when they issued a new maintenance staffing MMO (112-10) for NDCs to replace MMO 022-04, aka BMC-Gold. The posting page included does not go into the Article 19 items in great detail as those are of primary interest mostly to…
