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News Article | February 2, 2026

Draft Staffing and Grade Criteria Handbook Settlement

This settlement (case # Q00C4QC05027011) provides that the draft Staffing and Grade Criteria Handbook is not a handbook, manual or published regulation with the force and effect pursuant to Article 19. 

News Article | February 2, 2026

Award on Inspection of Vehicles in Non-Public Areas of Postal Property

Arbitrator Linda Byars denied the APWU's grievance challenging the Postal Service's regulations and implementing instructions for the administrative inspection of vehicles entering non-public areas of postal property. 

News Article | February 2, 2026

Settlement Rescinds EEO Complaint Processing Handbook

The APWU and the Postal Service agreed recently in a pre-arbitration settlement that management shall rescind the EEO Complaint Processing Handbook (EL-603). 

News Article | February 2, 2026

Settlement on Severance Pay and Early Retirement

This is a pre-arbitration settlement over whether employees are entitled to severance pay when they elect early retirement in accordance with Article 6, Section B. 4 of the National Agreement.

News Article | February 2, 2026

Settlement on Contract Postal Unit Dispute

The issue in this case concerned whether it is a violation of the National Agreement for the Postal Service to give a contract for a "Contract Postal Unit (CPU)" to a contractor who doesn’t own the property or facility where the CPU is being established.

News Article | February 2, 2026

Award on Terminations Due to Hiring Errors

A national arbitration award by Arbitrator Das regarding terminations initiated because of administrative errors in the hiring process discovered after the employees’ probationary periods ended.

News Article | February 2, 2026

Proposed Revisions to F-1, Section 473.12, Rescinded

This settlement (case #Q94C4QC96092498) rescinds a proposed revision to Handbook F-1 (Accounting Procedures) Section 473.12 which would have provided that "Employees cannot grieve or request a hearing for salary or travel advances."

News Article | February 2, 2026

Award on Applicability of TCOLA to Promotion Pay Anomaly Payments [pdf]

This is an NALC case in which the APWU intervened. The issue was whether the Postal Service's failure to pay Territorial COLA (TCOLA) as part of the promotion pay anomaly payments due under the June 13, 1990 Memorandum of Settlement of case number H7C-NAC-39 was a violation of that settlement.

News Article | February 2, 2026

Intermediate Travel for Training Settlement

This settlement (case #H0C-NAC 19002) reinstates the language of Section 716.123 of the ELM that existed prior to 1991, which permits intermediate travel (for employees on an extended duty assignment) to a location other than the employee's permanent duty station when authorized in advance by the em...

News Article | February 2, 2026

Decision in Maintenance Management Order (MMO) Dispute – Sept 30, 2005

Arbitrator Das sustained in part, denied in part and remanded in part the APWU's grievances challenging three Maintenance Management Orders (MMOs) regarding preventive maintenance guidelines for the Delivery Bar Code Sorter (DBCS), Multi-Position Flat Sorting Machine (MPFSM), and the Identification...

News Article | February 2, 2026

Arbitrator Rules ‘Separation of Casuals’ Language in Article 12 Applies Only to Casuals in the Impacted Craft

In a recent National Association of Letter Carriers’ (NALC) national arbitration award, Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled that “[t]he provision in Article 12.5.C.5.a (2) for ‘separation of all casuals’ applies to casuals in the affected or losing craft, and not to casuals in other crafts.

News Article | February 2, 2026

Award on Appeal Date for Dispute Over Contract Postal Units

In a recent national arbitration award, Arbitrator Linda Byars rejected management's claim that our dispute over Contract Postal Units wasn't required to be placed on the national arbitration docket using the date the original grievance was appealed in accordance with the parties' 2004 MOU "Re: Revi...

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