For the full description & application, please go to the Best Qualified Positions page. 0000001930 00000 n In return, the tentative agreement will increase the percentage of MHAs to allow up to 24.5% by Installation (up from 23.5% by Installation and 18.5% by District), and this cap will apply at the Installation level, making enforcement easier for the Union. Phone: (202) 833-9095, Copyright 2023 National Postal Mail Handlers Union Holiday Pay Juneteenth added to the holidays for career employees for a total of 11 paid holidays PTF pay rate will be increased effective January 1, 2022 to reflect 11 holidays each year. 0000018555 00000 n pq; hu. The following definitions apply for the purposes of 510:. The APWU still encourages all employees to do the simple things that help prevent the spread of COVID or other illnesses: The updated Decision Tree is attached and we will update you if any other COVID protocols are altered. Entry-level candidates typically start at $14 per hour, which can rise to $26 per hour over time. Please note that the listed bid assignments will become effective Saturday, January 14, 2023. 0000012852 00000 n The MOU on Purging Letters of Warning has been obtained again for all Mail Handlers, and it will again apply to MHAs. Another change to Article 8 will allow employees who bid or are reassigned during a calendar quarter to a duty assignment in a different facility, in a different section, or on a different tour may add their names to the overtime desired list, even if not on the OTDL in their prior assignment. All career Mail Handlers will receive four general wage increases during the term: -- the first, retroactively effective to November 23, 2019, will be 1.1%; -- the second, effective on November 21, 2020, will be 1.0%; -- the third, effective on November 20, 2021, will be 1.0%; and, -- the fourth, called a special pay adjustment, also effective on November. The position is open to Clerk Craft in Oakland Bid Center, Opening Date: November 18, 2022 A change to Article 16.5, providing that a suspension of fourteen (14) days if a timely grievance is appealed to Step 2 will not be served until disposition of the grievance, either by settlement, withdrawal, or an arbitrators final and binding decision. There will be a 2.5% increase in clothing allowance during each year of the contract. Backpay for some former city carrier assistants that were converted to career status between November 23, 2019 and April 9, 2021 must be calculated manually, resulting in a delay in payment. In addition to having a voice and a vote in your union, and all of the collective bargaining rights you rely on you will have the opportunity to participate in the following programs: 846 0 obj <>stream Over 2,500 current PSEs will be converted on May 9, 2020, the beginning of pay period 11. Regular and 38% PSE and all career duty assignments are Full-Time Regular Postal Support Employees (PSEs) are hired for a term not to exceed 360 calendar days per appointment. Click Here to be taken to the page & notice. Closing Date: November 29, 2022. 0000002559 00000 n The Joint Education and Training Fund will be continued, with additional funding of $1 million per year. Close contact tracing is no longer done by the Postal Nurses but returned to local health departments to conduct. APWU and USPS reach agreement. These conversions are consistent with the Interest Arbitration panels award issued on March 10, 2020. 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 The tentative agreement will eliminate the District cap, and instead apply a hard cap at the Installation level. The Postal Service has informed the APWU of the date that Postal Support Employees (PSEs) who have been employed in 125 workyear or larger offices for more than 2.5 years (30 months) will be converted to career status. Conversions of PSEs was one of the demands your negotiators made from the very start of negotiations. 803 0 obj <> endobj Article 6 will be amended to ensure that layoffs of career employees, if ever implemented, are prohibited unless preceded by reductions in overtime, MHA hours, and PTF hours. NPMHU and USPS Extend COVID-19 Test Kit Fulfillment Pilot. And, of course, protection against future inflation is precisely why the COLA provision remains an important component of the National Agreement. A change to Article 17.5 will ensure that union representatives may attend orientation for new employees transferred to the Mail Handler craft. 0000074598 00000 n All cost-of-living adjustments paid during the 2019 National Agreement will be rolled into basic salary immediately. 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. City carrier assistants will receive additional 1.0% increases effective November 20, 2021 and November 19, 2022 in lieu of cost of living adjustments pursuant to Article 9.7 of the National Agreement. The following is a summary of the tentative agreement reached between representatives of the NPMHU and the Postal Service to establish the terms of the 2019 National Agreement. Other changes in Article 10 and related MOUs will provide: - That access to choice vacation periods for MHAs will be a mandatory topic of discussion during local implementation, - That PTFs have access to the Annual Leave Exchange Option, - That employees will be authorized to receive donated leave under the Leave Sharing MOU to provide care to children born or adopted within the past twelve months, - That guarantee the continuation of National Days of Observance upon the death of former U.S. Presidents, - That the current instructions governing Wounded Warrior Leave are incorporated into the National Agreement. In todays dollars, the 1% increase in health care contributions is equivalent to an increase of approximately $75 per year for self-only coverage and between $100 and $175 per year for family coverage, depending on the particular health plan selected. The Decision Tree no longer grants administrative leave under any circumstances. The 2019 National Agreement will cover a period of three years, and will expire at midnight on September 20, 2022. Grievances will need to be filed, but I suggest placing the power point presentation in all grievances where it shows the Postal Service wants employees to stay home. 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. For MHAs, during their first year of employment, MHAs will be able to maintain their participation in the USPS Noncareer health plan. 0000020129 00000 n Many PSEs to be converted by 3/13/2021 : r/USPS. If you do test positive, employees stay home for at least 5 days and once you leave home wear a mask through day 10. 1300 L Street NW The agreement also establishes the additional conversion of at least 3,641 PSEs to career. The Senior Executive Service salary tops out at $226,300 per annum. General Schedule(GS) base payvaries from the GS-1 level at $20,172 per annum to $146,757 per annum at step 10 of the GS-15 grade, not including locality payadjustments. Dont let someone else decide your future, be a part of the decision making! The Office of Personnel Management will make any necessary annuity adjustments. Additionally, effective Nov. 19, 2022, a new top step (Step P) (which is $444 annually greater than Step O) will be added to the career letter carrier pay scales.The agreement also provides for the automatic conversion of city carrier assistants (CCAs) to career status no later than after 24 months of relative standing, providing full fringe. All career Mail Handlers will receive six cost-of-living adjustments, using the July 2019 CPI index as a base: -- the first COLA will be effective in March 2020, -- the second COLA will be effective in September 2020, -- the third COLA will be effective in March 2021, -- the fourth COLA will be effective in September 2021, -- the fifth COLA will be effective in March 2022, -- the sixth COLA will be effective in September 2022. Employees in these steps will move up into the remaining higher steps. Pse conversion to career 2022 pay scale. American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO 0000002445 00000 n This is a historic achievement, as non-career and non-union casuals without a path to career employment have been used in the Mail Handler craft since the 1970s. For Employees Covered by the National Agreement For Employees Covered by the IT/AS Agreement 363.1 Definition. SENIORITY PROVISIONS . 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. For a Level 4 Mail Handler at top step, the wage increases during the three years of the 2019 National Agreement not including COLA will total $2,370, including $668 retroactively effective in November 2019; $607 effective in November 2020; and $1,093 effective in November 2021. Many PSEs to be converted by 3/13/2021. The average annual salary for full-time non-postal employees has. endstream endobj 845 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/Index[28 775]/Length 48/Size 803/Type/XRef/W[1 1 1]>>stream This does not include the retroactive pay! Based on the CDC guidance that businesses no longer need to do close contact tracing, the Postal Service has decided to change their decision tree and turn over the close contact tracing to public health officials. 0000074125 00000 n The following is a summary of the tentative agreement reached between representatives of the NPMHU and the Postal Service to establish the terms of the 2019 National Agreement. Please note that the listed bid assignments will become effective Saturday, December 17, 2022. Postal Service (USPS) met for the first session of main table bargaining at Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, DC. 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. Clerk Craft Award Notice for December 2, 2022 have been posted on the Bid Results page of this website. Click Here to be taken to the page & notice. 1.3% November 19, 2022 . 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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. We have been negotiating on your behalf and will continue to do so. This adjustment will be effective August 28 and reflected in paychecks dated September 17. The retroactive pay date has not been determined by USPS. 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. This also will mean approximately 1,400 additional members of our bargaining unit, which will be good for the employees who are new MHAs and good for the overall strength of the Union. 1.3% November 19, 2022; . 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. Let me be clear that the APWU is not in agreement with all these changes. 0000011571 00000 n 0000014508 00000 n The parties have resolved the matter in accordance with the attached Memorandum of Understanding. %%EOF 0000108874 00000 n The average PSE Mail Processing Clerk salary is $19 per hour. 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 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. Membership in the APWU gives you a voice in determining your future. 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 0000013882 00000 n NALC - Backpay and COLA update. If that average were to repeat itself during the term of the 2019 National Agreement, the COLA provision, by itself, would provide over $1,800 in additional base wage increases over the next three years. 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. For Mail Handler Assistants (MHAs), the first three general wage increases will be 1% higher per year, or 2.1% retroactively to November 2019, 2.0% in November 2020, and 2.0% in November 2021. The Postal Service has informed the APWU of the date that Postal Support Employees (PSEs) who have been employed in 125 workyear or larger offices for more than 2.5 years (30 months) will be converted to career status. The corresponding number of duty assignments will be created and posted in Function 1 in the 31 facilities as identified by the Postal Service, consistent with the. For example, if an employees Sunday tour of duty is from 8 p. Average United States Postal Service Mail Carrier hourly pay in the United States is approximately $17. Retired and separated employees that worked during the backpay period will be paid by check mailed to their last work location. 0000224941 00000 n Unfortunately, the CDC significantly weakened their guidance on COVID-19 which the USPS is citing as reason for these changes. &VKirt!7Wbgzx_L=48ar}y]v~V)V7`)$Ys3jzj+6\k2VL/S\8"zQ\YCfwVfe`"@XL:-^-. Under this agreement, all night differentials will increase by 2% per year, effective in May 2020, in May 2021, and in May 2022. Cost of living increases are paid proportionally to city carriers in Table 2 in accordance with Article 9.3.E of the National Agreement. *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. The December 9, 2022 Clerk Craft Vacancy Notice has been posted on the Bid Postings page of this website. Please note that the listed bid assignments will become effective Saturday, January 14, 2023. DATA COLLECTION TECHNICIAN LEVEL 7 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. If any such employee, then tests positive for COVID-19 they need and should file an OWCP claim. 37.4. The new pay rates can be seen in the new letter carrier pay schedule availablehere. The Postal Service will continue to pay $125 per pay period for self-only coverage, but under the tentative agreement, the Postal Service will pay significantly more namely, 65% of the total premium for any MHA who chooses to participate in the USPS Noncareer plan for self-plus-one or family coverage. 1.3% Nov. 19, 2022 1.3% Nov. 18, 2023 6 COLA's for Career employees PSE's will receive 2.3% each year PSE's will get a $0.50 a month after ratification Job Security No lay-off protections remain in full-force No lay-off extended to all career on rolls 9-20-21 50 mile limit on excessing Holiday Pay PTF pay adjusted for new holiday Pse conversion to career 2022 pay scale. In my opinion the changing of the Decision Tree was to avoid any payment of administrative leave by turning over an isolation or quarantine decisions to public health officials. September 17 pay date has not been determined by USPS future, be a part of the Agreement! 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