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. You can join APWU by completing form 1187, which you can find here. Postal Support Employees (PSEs) are hired for a term not to exceed 360 calendar days per appointment. 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. 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. 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. and possibly discontinue them. *City carrier assistants receive the additional 1.0% increases referenced above in lieu of cost of living adjustments pursuant to Article 9.7 of the National Agreement. DATA COLLECTION TECHNICIAN LEVEL 7 Let me be clear that the APWU is not in agreement with all these changes. 0000010595 00000 n Unlike previous temporary USPS workers, PSEs have the right to join the APWU. 0000018118 00000 n 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. COVID is not over and the APWU is still losing members to this horrible disease. 0000002559 00000 n They are hiring a bunch of new PSE's over the next couple weeks, o that list will have additional people added in the near future. Phone: (202) 833-9095, Copyright 2023 National Postal Mail Handlers Union Regular and 38% PSE and all career duty assignments are Full-Time Regular 0000018555 00000 n 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. The following will be affected by the. Click Here to be taken to the page & notice. Washington DC 20005, Financial Issues for Local, State Union Officers, Clerk Craft Negotiates Improvements in 2021-2024 CBA, Questions & Answers for the MOU, Re: Additional Function 1 Staffing, Gearing up for Contract Negotiations in 2021, Major Agreement Reached on Function 1 Mail Processing Staffing, Interest Arbitration and the Fight to Come, From PSE to Full-Time Career: Retirement Buy Back. 0000006599 00000 n The agreement also establishes the additional conversion of at least 3,641 PSEs to career. Effective advertising doesn't have to break the bank, though, and we've rounded up a few ideas you can try with any size budget. 0000012852 00000 n "Movement within Schedule" is movement from one schedule step to the next higher step of the same schedule. This way the Postal Service can now make the claim it was not them who put anyone off work. SUMMARY OF TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING TERMS OF 2019 NATIONAL AGREEMENT (PDF), ESTABLISHING TERMS OF 2019 NATIONAL AGREEMENT. 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. 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. 11. In addition, during the peak mailing season, there will be a 56-day period for unlimited hiring of MHAs instead of casuals. trailer PSEs "will be converted based on their relative standing on the PSE rolls" within the affected installations. 0000198566 00000 n 0000015311 00000 n startxref Clerk Craft Award Notice for December 7, 2022 have been posted on the Bid Results page of this website. 0000229042 00000 n 0000001572 00000 n Article 37.4.A -Fulltime flexible employees and unassigned regular employees are considered unencumbered employees. We are discussing the issue with representatives from USPS Headquarters. 363.1 Definition. These amounts automatically are paid with pre-tax dollars, so the actual out-of-pocket cost to each Mail Handler should be less by the percentage of income taxes usually paid. For Employees Covered by the National Agreement For Employees Covered by the IT/AS Agreement The Postal Service has significantly changed their COVID-19 policies. Employees in these steps will move up into the remaining higher steps. Postal Service (USPS) met for the first session of main table bargaining at Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, DC. 0000074598 00000 n The language of Article 12.3B12 has been improved, so that a temporary supervisor returning to the craft for one continuous pay period of 14 consecutive days in order to bid is required to complete that continuous pay period prior to submitting a bid. Postal Support Employees (PSEs) are hired for a term not to exceed 360 calendar days per appointment. 0000017401 00000 n Level 4 RMPO PSEs to get 1 hour additional AL per pay period after 2 360 day appointments PSEs will be offered 1 non-scheduled day per week except Dec. with Wed prior notification UNIFORM ALLOWANCE INCREASE 2.5% EACH YEAR DSSDA WILL RECEIVE TYPE 1 UNIFORM ALLOWANCE New roll-over program where unused funds can carry over the next year, ADDITIONAL WORK RULE IMPROVEMENTS SEE APWU.ORG FOR COMPLETE LIST, SIGN UP AT APWU.ORG FOR TOWNHALLS DECEMBER 16TH. August 18, 2021. 0000161221 00000 n 0000013882 00000 n Washington DC 20005, Financial Issues for Local, State Union Officers, Everything Youve Always Wanted to Know About Postal Support Employees (PSEs), and Where to Find It, MOU: Resolution to PSE Salary Exception Issues Addendum, MOU: Workforce Benefits Fund, Case Number Q10C-4Q-C 15215794, 2015-07-15 PSE Fingerprint Compensation Agreement. Article 12.5 is clarified to ensure that meetings about potential relocation of mail handlers will be held at the Regional level, and that Local Union representatives may attend. 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. The December 9, 2022 Clerk Craft Vacancy Notice has been posted on the Bid Postings page of this website. 0000012252 00000 n For career employees, in 2020 there will be no change in the percentage of employee contribution to health insurance. And, of course, protection against future inflation is precisely why the COLA provision remains an important component of the National Agreement. For the full description & application, please go to the Best Qualified Positions page. 0000014508 00000 n endstream endobj 804 0 obj <>/Metadata 26 0 R/Pages 25 0 R/StructTreeRoot 28 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> endobj 805 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]/Properties<>/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 1008.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 806 0 obj <> endobj 807 0 obj <>stream Other membership benefits include: "The American Postal Worker'; a bimonthly magazine reporting on issues and programs affecting you, a safety and health program that educates workers about possible hazards in the workplace and provides technical assistance, and members are eligible to enroll in the APWU Health Plan, which provides comprehensive coverage at a very reasonable cost. The parties agreed on July 27, 2022 to an additional Function 1 Staffing MOU that will convert 2,404 PSEs in 157 Installations to career status. The MOU on Relative Standing of MHAs and Subsequent Conversion to Career Mail Handler is amended to require management to provide, upon request, a hard or electronic copy of the relative standing list to union representatives at the Installation level. The 2019 National Agreement will cover a period of three years, and will expire at midnight on September 20, 2022. Over 2,500 current PSEs will be converted on May 9, 2020, the beginning of pay period 11. When projected COLA payments are added at the consensus estimate of $250 per increase, at top step for career employees there will be an additional $1,500 in base wage increases over and above the general wage increases described above during the term of the 2019 National Agreement. The Postal Service has said we will be provided proposed changes in advance and have an opportunity to review them and give input on the changes. I do not agree that this is in the best interest of Postal Employees. IN MEMORY OF; Retiree's Place.. ci. 0000224777 00000 n 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. Thus, the Postal Service will contribute 73% of the weighted average in 2019 and 2020, and 72% of the weighted average in 2021 and 2022. So here are things to note: I know the Postal Service will probably still attempt to discipline folks for missing work for COVID-19. 22 Bargaining Unit Employees Bargaining unit employees permanently assigned to a higher equivalent grade in the nonbargaining unit schedule receive a salary adjustment of 5 percent of their basic salary subject to the following: a. The tentative agreement will eliminate the District cap, and instead apply a hard cap at the Installation level. PSEs will be converted to career status upon reaching 24-months of relative standing Clerk PSEs assigned to offices Grade 21 or higher will be converted to Full-Time Flexible with such assignments made in accordance with the Clerk Craft provisions of Art. Conversion refers to the process of changing a noncareer employee's status to a career appointment in one personnel action. 1.3% November 19, 2022; . 0000020291 00000 n Clerk/PSE (Current Employee) - Washington, DC - November 22, 2022 The post office pays good and have some good benefits but the Customers are rude if you work at they retail counter and they don't want you to take off working 6 days a week from 8:30am-5:30pm until you turn over as a regular Many PSEs to be converted by 3/13/2021. PTF Clerks' One-Time Voluntary Reassignment. 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. The MOU on Purging Letters of Warning has been obtained again for all Mail Handlers, and it will again apply to MHAs. On your behalf, the APWU has negotiated basic seniority . A separate letter from USPS management will reaffirm that local union representatives must be given advance notice of these orientation meetings. I believe they did this so that it is an outside agency or medical provider who is telling the employee to stay off work instead of the Postal Service. Grade 11 Pay Scale increased by an average of 2.3% prior to any general increases or COLA Note: There was a correction on 12/16 to Grade 8 Pay Scale -Steps A- . National Postal Mail Handlers Union jp. 0000028108 00000 n This isnt the end of our battle for more career employees. 0000014783 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. 846 0 obj <>stream hb```b``e`c`~ B@167n>``(t`L[K,iTMK'sg[qe 7& 6N\n,.`V ; "$(llV8M@ld`|&p&&0E2b!8q/C'[#.jWg&HbPh h,`0,J3,y Q The position is open to Clerk Craft in Oakland Bid Center, Opening Date: November 18, 2022 $20 - Plating; Prices are effective as of January 1, needs (transportation, housing, some entertainment, etc, to make internal wage decisions, identify, Union would receive six cost-of-living adjustments, most convenient and affordable shipping and mailing services, 0% Additional for Postal Support Employees, midpoint of the ranges from our proprietary Total, to Physician 2-4, Psychiatric Social Worker 1-4, and Psychiatrists, access a wide variety of statistics and information on, nion Pacific LEGACY LionMaster 4-8-8-4 Big Boy #4006 The, the meeting with sincere optimism for positive and productive, span class=" fc-falcon">Service Type Fee Per, reached a pre-arbitration settlement on the interpretive dispute concerning, Due to the recent settlement of national-level case, most residential and small commercial customers, The average annual salary for full-time non-postal employees, General Schedule and Law Enforcement Officer, positions will be an increase to the current workforce. 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