Pending 2008 Mail count PO603 Revision on DPS Reviews Pending at Step 4 are 5 separate disputes involving Highway Contract Routes and Contract
Delivery and another 3 cases involving DPS implementation and DPS issues. In one case USPS arbitrarily suspended DPS to maximize
DPS processing for city delivery and simply stopped running DPS and then restarted DPS after a significant interval of time
in violation of the DPS procedures and processes and without adjusting compensation or returning the routes to sector-segment
or raw mail credit.
Other cases pending National Arbitration include the following:
· Requirements to deviate for Express mail delivery.
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The issue of mutual exchanges which USPS has unilaterally suspended
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An issue involving the timely filing of a grievance based on delivery confirmation date of a notice of removal used as proof
of delivery/receipt
· Compensation for inverted DPS mail presented
for carrier casing/delivery. City/Rural Territory
Disputes Alexandria, Virginia
– The NRLCA announced that Former NRLCA Executive Committeeman Francis Raimer will be responsible for working to clear
the long term backlog of approximately 200 pending rural/city territory disputes.
Francis Raimer replaces Former NRLCA President Scottie Hicks who had been evaluating and attempting to clear the pending
cases until medical issues associated with heart bypass surgery and his farming interests prevented him from effectively working
on the remaining cases pending.
In the interim, an additional 100 cases
have advanced for a determination as to whether the parties in tri-partite pre-arbitration negotiations can resolve the cases.
Currently there are 7 cases pending arbitration that involve rural/city disputes
that the parties have been unable to resolve and which involve substantial impact to the rural carriers and city carriers
involved including territory representing multiple routes that could be switched from one craft to the other.
source: Hierofont News Arbitration Awards Bloch Award Pertaining to a decrease in DPS percentage 2002
Interest Arbitration after failure to negotiate a new contract Wells arbitration testimony Pertaining
to Management's conduct during the 2002 Mail Count The Supplemental Award modifies and clarifies the original
May 15, 2006 Eischen award . The NRLCA and the USPS agreed
to a different settlement than the Eischen award... Eischen agreed to let
them come to a different settlement if they could do so. The settlement paid 60 million to ALL rural carriers working during the 2002-2006 mail counts...
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