SPSS Merits Award

The Arbitrator, for the reasons set forth in the above Opinion, denies the following claims: the claim by the National Postal Mail Handlers Union [NPMHU], that the issuance by the United States Postal Service, on August 7, 2015, of the revised Craft Determination for the Small Parcel Sorter System [SPSS], was improper, insofar as the USPS changed its June 1, 2015, award of the “singulating”/“facing” work on the platform to Mail Handler Craft employees, by awarding such work to the Clerk Craft employees, and by its related assignment to those Clerks of some of the “sweeping” work (removing full containers from the SPSS and replacing them with empty containers) for rotational purposes only, insofar as such assignments were inconsistent with RI-399 Craft determination principles and with certain previously decided Arbitration Opinions and Awards; the claim by the American Postal Workers Union [APWU] that the USPS, in its revised determination of August 7, 2015, improperly awarded “sweeping” work to Mail Handler Craft employees, as the primary Craft, with the award of some of the “sweeping” work, for rotational purposes only, to those Clerk Craft employees who were assigned to perform the work of “singulating”/“facing” parcels, rather than assigning all of the “sweeping” work to Clerk Craft employees. 61 AWARD The Arbitrator, for the reasons set forth in the above Opinion, denies the following claims: the claim by the National Postal Mail Handlers Union [NPMHU], that the issuance by the United States Postal Service, on August 7, 2015, of the revised Craft Determination for the Small Parcel Sorter System [SPSS], was improper, insofar as the USPS changed its June 1, 2015, award of the “singulating”/“facing” work on the platform to Mail Handler Craft employees, by awarding such work to the Clerk Craft employees, and by its related assignment to those Clerks of some of the “sweeping” work (removing full containers from the SPSS and replacing them with empty containers) for rotational purposes only, insofar as such assignments were inconsistent with RI-399 Craft determination principles and with certain previously decided Arbitration Opinions and Awards; the claim by the American Postal Workers Union [APWU] that the USPS, in its revised determination of August 7, 2015, improperly awarded “sweeping” work to Mail Handler Craft employees, as the primary Craft, with the award of some of the “sweeping” work, for rotational purposes only, to those Clerk Craft employees who were assigned to perform the work of “singulating”/ “facing” parcels, rather than assigning all of the “sweeping” work to Clerk Craft employees.

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