September 1, 2020 NALC and the Postal Service have settled national-level case Q16N-4Q-C 20345187 concerning the Postal Service’s implementation of a test of the delivery initiative entitled Expedited Street/Afternoon Sortation (ESAS). As a result of the settlement, the parties agree that the ESAS pilot test is concluded and terminated as of August 19, 2020. Additionally,…
Let’s tell it like it is concerning RI-399, as follows: 1) Thousands of both Clerk and Mail Handler cases having been sitting at the local and regional level for over 30 years. As a matter of fact, the RI-399 process became known as the “Black Hole”. A place were jurisdictional disputes from both Unions were…
Sisters and Brothers, this is my 15th Book in the 22 Book Strategy Series – Roadmap to Winning: Success Strategies in Our Dispute Resolution Process The follow-up book to Interviews As Evidence, Roadmap To Winning utilizes the compartmentalization model strategy introduced in Interviews for all element categories of Grievance evidence. The key to the model…
The Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) have agreed to extend contraction negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement, USPS announced May 21. Although the contract with APWU expired at midnight May 20, the Postal Service and APWU mutually decided to extend the negotiations deadline by one week to May 27. APWU…
