
December 24, 2020 – Memorandum of Understanding Re Additional Mail Handler Staffing; Conversion of MHAs (pdf) Continue reading
December 24, 2020 – Memorandum of Understanding Re Additional Mail Handler Staffing; Conversion of MHAs (pdf) Continue reading Mail Handlers Union President Paul Hogrogian issued the following update, addressing the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, as well as PMG DeJoy’s attemped “reforms”: Continue reading On October 7, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Yvette Luster, former Treasurer of Postal Mail Handlers Local 314 (located in St. Louis, Mo.), was charged with one count of embezzlement of labor union assets in the amount of $184,138, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). Continue reading The terms of the 2019 National Agreement between the NPMHU and the U.S. Postal Service were officially ratified on April 7, 2020, after a short delay in counting the votes caused by the ongoing pandemic. Continue reading National President Paul Hogrogian and National Secretary-Treasurer Michael Hora today announced that representatives of the NPMHU and the U.S. Postal Service have reached a tentative agreement over the terms of their 2019 National Agreement. Continue reading As previously announced, the Update MOU on RI-399 that was signed by the NPMHU, the APWU, and the Postal Service in June 2018 included a monetary payment to individual Mail Handlers. Here are the details, except for the payment date, which is still to be determined. Continue reading We are pleased to provide a linked copy of a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding – executed earlier today by the NPMHU, the American Postal Workers Union, and the U.S. Postal Service – that updates the RI-399 Dispute Resolution Procedures that were originally signed in 1992. Continue reading From the Mail Handlers Union: As provided for in Article 15, Section .3E of the National Agreement between the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the United States Postal Service, both parties have agreed to jointly produce a Contract Interpretation Manual (CIM), which represents a good faith effort to identify contractual issues on which the National parties are in agreement regarding interpretation and application of the parties’ National Agreement. Continue reading From the National Postal Mail Handlers Union: USPS management continues to implement its ill-conceived plans to realign its work force. Their plans involve massive bid reversions and job abolishments in almost every mail processing facility throughout the country. In most cases, management is basing its staffing needs on the flawed Function 1 Scheduler that the Postal Service uses to determine staffing levels at the large mail processing plants. Postal management continues to argue that these reversions and/or abolishments are necessary because of the continuing decline in mail volumes. Continue reading The National Office has been in contact with Postal Headquarters to discuss the deluge of bid reversions and abolishments that are being implemented across the country as a result of the Function 1 Scheduler. Continue reading
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Mail Handlers Union Negotiates MOU With USPS Converting 5,288 MHAs to Full-time Career Status
Mail Handlers Union president addresses COVID impacts, PMG’s “reforms”
St Louis mail handlers union official charged with embezzlement of labor union assets
Mail Handlers Ratify 2019 National Agreement
Mail Handlers Union, USPS reach tentative contract agreement
Mailhandlers Union Releases Details on RI-399 Payments
NPMHU, APWU and USPS Reach Agreement to Update RI-399 Dispute Resolution Procedures
Mail Handlers Union and USPS Finalize Contract Interpretation Manual
Mail Handlers Union secures delay of proposed involuntary reassignments
Mail Handlers Union Moves to Challenge Wholesale Job Cuts