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Pending

CDS Routes

2008 Mail count 

PO603 Revision on DPS Reviews 

More info on the PO603 revision of DPS Reviews

DPS Review Changes

Appealed to National Arbitration

Official Revision

 

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.
·         The issue of mutual exchanges which USPS has unilaterally suspended  Settled
·         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

Wells Award

2002 Interest Arbitration after failure to negotiate a new contract

Wells arbitration testimony

 

Eischen Award

Pertaining to Management's conduct during the 2002 Mail Count

 

Mail Count 2002--SUPPLEMENTAL AWARD

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...