USPS Signs Tentative Pact With Two Unions

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The U.S. Postal Service and two of its largest employee unions, the American Postal Workers Union and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, have reached tentative agreement on a two year contract.

Terms of the agreements, which would be retroactive to Nov. 20 when the old four year contract expired, were not disclosed. But sources told DIRECT Newsline that the agreements giving postal workers generous pay hikes and improved benefits also include provisions under which the USPS voluntarily agrees to stop contracting out certain postal jobs to private companies for 18 months.

The USPS currently has two major efforts underway to give postal jobs to private workers. In some regions private workers answer calls to post offices and, in the Northeast, transport priority mail parcels.

Postal and union officials, citing continuing contract talks between the USPS and two other unions, the National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, would not comment on the agreements which have yet to be approved by rank and file union members. There was no indication of when the ratification votes would be held.

And, they would not comment on reports that the agreements include generous pay hikes for postal workers. But one union source told Direct Newsline that the pay hikes would be a lot better than the raises won last year by drivers for United Parcel Service who went on strike for 15 days. They ended their strike after winning a five year contract boosting their hourly wages by as much as 36%.

Both postal and union officials agreed that the tentative agreements, the first reached without binding arbitration since 1987, removed the threat of a possible job slowdown by postal workers, who by law, are prohibited from going on strike.

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