Bargaining Update #12 | Mail Handlers Reach Tentative Agreement with USPS

  Mail Handlers Reach Tentative Agreement with USPS

"The 2022 National Agreement will cover a period of three years, and will expire at midnight on September 20, 2025.

General Wage Increases

All career Mail Handlers will receive three general wage increases during the term:
-- the first, retroactively effective to November 19, 2022, will be 1.3%;
-- the second, effective on November 18, 2023, will be 1.3%; and
-- the third, effective on November 16, 2024, will be 1.3%.
In addition, for career employees hired since February 2013, an additional 1% will be provided to Steps BB, AA, and A retroactively effective to November 19, 2022. ... The MOU on Purging Letters of Warning has been obtained again for all Mail Handlers, and it will again apply to MHAs. ...Article 11.1 was amended to add the Juneteenth National Independence Day holiday"

Article 11.1 was amended to add the Juneteenth National Independence Day holiday.

Under Article 8, NPMHU was able to secure a guarantee that, in postal installations which 200 or more man year of employment, career employees shall have consecutive scheduled days off. Additionally, the negotiated agreement includes a guaranteed nonscheduled day each service week for MHAs and PTFs.

SUMMARY OF TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING TERMS OF 2022 NATIONAL AGREEMENT (pdf)

CONTRACT RATIFICATION PROCEDURES (Adopted November 2022) (pdf) Labor deal: USPS, union reach tentative agreement 

Reference: www.npmhu.org