For example, the seven COLAs paid during the 40-month term of the 2016 National Agreement averaged $345 per COLA, even though one COLA was 0 and another was only $21 because of minimal inflation in the economy. Article 6 will be amended to ensure that layoffs of career employees, if ever implemented, are prohibited unless preceded by reductions in overtime, MHA hours, and PTF hours. Many PSEs to be converted by 3/13/2021. Holiday Pay Juneteenth added to the holidays for career employees for a total of 11 paid holidays PTF pay rate will be increased effective January 1, 2022 to reflect 11 holidays each year. As soon as additional information is available, it will be posted here on the NALC website. I put little faith in the Postal Service doing this in a manner that actually takes the safety and health of Postal Workers into consideration. Based on the CDC guidance that businesses no longer need to do close contact tracing, the Postal Service has decided to change their decision tree and turn over the close contact tracing to public health officials. The average annual salary for full-time non-postal employees has. The selected noncareer employee should not be separated and then given a career appointment unless the employee's appointment expires before the employee can be converted to career status. Under the 2016 National Agreement, the Postal Service has been allowed 3% casuals, down from prior contracts when casual percentages have been as high as 12.5%. Unscheduled Leave Number 1-877-477-3273 USPS Emergency Hotline 1-888-363-7462 Pay/Benefit Help 1-877-477-3273, NALC: Thirty-six additional installations added to, USPS-NAPS Agreement on Exempt Managers & Postmasters, NALC and the Postal Service open negotiations for sixteenth, USPS Issues Additional Guidance re: PostalEase and LiteBlue, How lawmakers are looking to change the COLA for federal, Concerning trend shows more than 100 USPS blue mail drop, National Rural Letter Carriers Association, National Association of Postal Supervisors, USPS Moves Forward with Awards to Modernize and Electrify the Nations Largest Federal Fleet, The secret to faster delivery is clear: overhauling the street address as we know it, Feds investigating Sacramento post offices following workplace injuries, Postal Police union head reacts after Postal Inspection Service refuses to reinstate route patrol, 1.1% General Wage Increase effective November 23, 2019, $166 Cost of Living Adjustment effective February 29, 2020, $188 Cost of Living Adjustment effective August 29, 2020, 1.1% General Wage Increase effective November 21, 2020, $416 Cost of Living Adjustment effective February 27, 2021, 1.1% General Wage Increase and additional 1.0% increase effective November 23, 2019, 1.1% General Wage Increase and additional 1.0% increase effective November 21, 2020. For MHAs, at Level 4, the rate that started in 2013 at $13.75, and has recently been $16.21, will immediately go to $16.55 per hour retroactively effective in November 2019. Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM), Click Here to be taken to the page & notice, How to File an OWCP Claim When Diagnosed with COVID-19 | American Postal Workers Union (apwu.org), APWU Constitution Bylaws as Amended August 18, 2022, February 14, 2023 Clerk Craft Award Notice, February 10, 2023 Clerk Craft Vacancy Notice Revised, January 26, 2023 Clerk Craft Award Notice, Wear masks at work, when in public, and at union events. 0000017401 00000 n
Most eligible city letter carriers will receive retroactive pay pursuant to the 2019-2023 National Agreement on their August 20 paychecks. American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO 0000198566 00000 n
NALC - Backpay and COLA update. Legal Privacy Policy Site Map, SUMMARY OF TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING TERMS OF 2019 NATIONAL AGREEMENT. PSEs "will be converted based on their relative standing on the PSE rolls" within the affected installations. If any such employee, then tests positive for COVID-19 they need and should file an OWCP claim. The Postal Service is supposed to send each newly converted employee a benefits book with all the necessary forms and instructions for making these extremely important decisions. 1.3% November 19, 2022; . Social Security Recipients Night Shift Differential For time worked between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., employees shall be paid additional compensation at the applicable flat dollar amount at each pay grade and step. If that average were to repeat itself during the term of the 2019 National Agreement, the COLA provision, by itself, would provide over $1,800 in additional base wage increases over the next three years. 0000012252 00000 n
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COVID is not over. For the first time since 1996, the Postal Service and the NPMHU have agreed to unlock, each year of the contract, the flat dollar amounts paid for night differential at each grade and step of the wage scales. The exact amount of the COLAs will be based on future increases in the Consumer Price Index. The following is a summary of the tentative agreement reached between representatives of the NPMHU and the Postal Service to establish the terms of the 2019 National Agreement. For Employees Covered by the National Agreement For Employees Covered by the IT/AS Agreement The importance of these conversions cannot be overstated, Clerk Craft Director Lamont Brooks said. Click Here to be taken to the page & notice. Entry-level candidates typically start at $14 per hour, which can rise to $26 per hour over time. 0000001199 00000 n
Article 12.2G is being amended to provide that Mail Handlers who are involuntarily excessed outside of the installation will have their seniority established by the employees service time in the losing installation, not the employees complete Mail Handler service. The 2019 National Agreement will cover a period of three years, and will expire at midnight on September 20, 2022. 0000029868 00000 n
PTF Clerks' One-Time Voluntary Reassignment. et Then, determine the number of pay grades within the structure. Article 30 is amended to establish the period for negotiations over Local Memoranda of Understanding to run for 30 consecutive days between May 2, 2020 and June 30, 2020. There are two minor changes to Article 15 in the tentative agreement, including (a) the addition of Employer Letters of Demand (up to $3,000) to the list of expedited arbitrations and (b) the holding of grievances at Step 3 if locally-filed grievances present the same interpretive issue as interpretive disputes pending at the National level at Step 4. Unfortunately, the CDC significantly weakened their guidance on COVID-19 which the USPS is citing as reason for these changes. This does not include the retroactive pay! and possibly discontinue them. in union solidarity, the struggle continues. Of course, should inflation moderate, these guaranteed COLA payments will be lower, and should inflation increase more than expected, these guaranteed COLA payments could provide larger wage increases. Many PSEs to be converted by 3/13/2021 : r/USPS. All career Mail Handlers employed as of September 20, 2019 will be protected against layoff or force reduction during the entire term of the Agreement, unless Congress repeals or significantly relaxes the Private Express Statutes. Employees in these steps will move up into the remaining higher steps. 0000224941 00000 n
The Joint Education and Training Fund will be continued, with additional funding of $1 million per year. rights The following will be affected by the. Moreover, after an MHA completes one 360-day appointment, beginning in each MHAs second year of employment, an MHA will be able to choose coverage under the USPS Noncareer health plan (at $125 per pay period for self only, or with the Postal Service paying 75% of the total premium for self-plus-one or family coverage) or the MHA will be able to use the same dollar amounts from the Postal Service to obtain coverage from the MHBP Consumer Option or the MHBP Value Plan, which are two of the three plans sponsored in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program by the NPMHU. TENTATIVE APWU/USPS AGREEMENT REACHED THREE YEAR AGREEMENT SEPT. 21, 2021 TO SEPT. 20, 2024, General Wage Increases 1.3% Nov. 20, 2021 (retroactive) 1.3% Nov. 19, 2022 1.3% Nov. 18, 2023 6 COLAs for Career employees PSEs will receive 2.3% each year PSEs will get a $0.50 a month after ratification Job Security No lay-off protections remain in full-force No lay-off extended to all career on rolls 9-20-21 50 mile limit on excessing Holiday Pay PTF pay adjusted for new holiday Juneteenth Holiday added Health Insurance No change to USPS contribution 95% USPS contribution to APWU CDHP PSEs converted will receive credit for time enrolled in CDHP toward 1 year qualifying period within 90 days of ratification 1 time voluntary transfer opportunity to larger facility Enhanced Level 8 and 11 Pay Scales Elimination of Steps FF-AA See apwu.org for slotting information of present employees in these levels PTF WORK RULE CHANGES Pay Period Guarantee increased to 24 hours from 2 hours 4 hour guarantee when scheduled 40 hours Annual Leave advanced at start of leave year Guaranteed 1 non-scheduled day a week with Wednesday notification prior week, AUTOMATIC CONVERSION OF PSES IN LEVEL 20 OFFICES AND ABOVE PSEs converted to career standing upon reaching 24 months Clerk PSEs Level 21 or higher converted to FT-Flexible Clerk PSEs Level 20 converted to PTF MVS PSEs converted to PTF DOES NOT APPLY TO CLERK PSES IN LEVEL 4 RMPO OTHER SLOTTING ISSUES SEE APWU.ORG, PSE WORK RULE CHANGES 40 hours Annual Leave advances at beginning of leave year. 0000012279 00000 n
Article 12.3B6 is amended to provide that changes in starting time for purposes of bid posting and incumbency rights will be measured on a cumulative basis from the latest of ratification of each National Agreement or the start time at the beginning of each bid. Grievances will need to be filed, but I suggest placing the power point presentation in all grievances where it shows the Postal Service wants employees to stay home. Get vaccinated when able and when recommend by your medical practitioner. 0000014783 00000 n
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The agreement also eliminates all casual employees from the Mail Handler craft within 120 days of the ratification of the agreement. Pse conversion to career 2022 pay scale iq Fiction Writing 1. The parties have resolved the matter in accordance with the attached Memorandum of Understanding. Postal Support Employees (PSEs) are hired for a term not to exceed 360 calendar days per appointment. The CDC has greatly reduced when isolation/quarantine is even necessary based symptoms, vaccination status, and the expectation that exposed people will wear well-fitting masks. As a reminder, as newly converted career employees, these PSEs will have sixty-days (60) from May 9, 2020 (July 8, 2020), to make benefit decisions. IN MEMORY OF; Retiree's Place.. ci. Backpay is calculated for all paid hours between November 23, 2019 (the date of the first general wage increase in the Agreement) and April 9, 2021 (the day before new pay rates were implemented as explainedhere). Health Insurance No change to the Postal Service contribution to premiums for those participating in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. The following is a summary of the tentative agreement reached between representatives of the NPMHU and the Postal Service to establish the terms of the 2019 National Agreement. This also will mean approximately 1,400 additional members of our bargaining unit, which will be good for the employees who are new MHAs and good for the overall strength of the Union. 0000029972 00000 n
December 7, 2022 Clerk Craft Award Notice 95535175. There will be a 2.5% increase in clothing allowance during each year of the contract. Retroactive payments will not be in the pay check dated June 24, 2022. Please note that the listed bid assignments will become effective Saturday, January 14, 2023. All career Mail Handlers will receive four general wage increases during the term: -- the first, retroactively effective to November 23, 2019, will be 1.1%; -- the second, effective on November 21, 2020, will be 1.0%; -- the third, effective on November 20, 2021, will be 1.0%; and, -- the fourth, called a special pay adjustment, also effective on November. Please note that the listed bid assignments will become effective Saturday, December 17, 2022. A change in Article 8 will guarantee that MHAs receive overtime pay for work performed in excess of eight (8) hours on duty in any one service day or in excess of forty (40) hours on duty in any service week. xref
The November 9, 2022 Clerk Craft Vacancy Notice has been posted on the Bid Postings page of this website. Clerk Craft Award Notice for December 2, 2022 have been posted on the Bid Results page of this website. This is a historic achievement, as non-career and non-union casuals without a path to career employment have been used in the Mail Handler craft since the 1970s. 0000015311 00000 n
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In return, the tentative agreement will increase the percentage of MHAs to allow up to 24.5% by Installation (up from 23.5% by Installation and 18.5% by District), and this cap will apply at the Installation level, making enforcement easier for the Union. For a Level 4 Mail Handler at top step, the wage increases during the three years of the 2019 National Agreement not including COLA will total $2,370, including $668 retroactively effective in November 2019; $607 effective in November 2020; and $1,093 effective in November 2021. This way the Postal Service can now make the claim it was not them who put anyone off work. 0000073842 00000 n
More than 200,000 U.S. As set forth in the MOU, the Postal Service h All other provisions of the 2016 National Agreement are being maintained, except for date changes or other cosmetic changes that may be necessary to accommodate the new contract. A separate letter from USPS management will reaffirm that local union representatives must be given advance notice of these orientation meetings. Articles 12.3B4 (fixed days of work), 12.3B5 (change in duties or change in principal assignment area), and 12.3B6 (change in starting time) have been amended to provide for an expedited selection process within the section when these changes require that an assignment be posted installation-wide bidding.