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News Article | February 2, 2026

Annual Leave Exchange Option, PTF Employees – Remedy

In a recent national-level arbitration award by Arbitrator Byars on the remedy for depriving part-time flexible employees of the Annual Leave Exchange Option (ALEO), the arbitrator granted the union a remedy in an amount equal to interest, at the Federal Judgment Rate, on what the Postal Service wou...

News Article | February 2, 2026

Arbitrator: Maximization Provision Only Applies to Work Hours of PTFs

A recent national arbitration award by Arbitrator Linda Byars found that the Postal Service does not have an obligation to combine the hours of all non-full-time employees, i.e. part-time regular, part-time flexible, transitional and/or casual employees, as well as the regularly scheduled overtime h...

News Article | February 2, 2026

Contracting Enforcement

Unlike “contract enforcement,” which is the job of all good union representatives, “contracting enforcement” refers specifically our efforts to stop management from assigning our work to non-postal employees. Our ability to do that received a significant boost recently from a ruling by Arbitrator Sh...

News Article | February 2, 2026

Award on Driver Instructor-Examiner (DIE) Qualification Standard

A national level award sustaining the APWU’s challenge to 1994 changes in the Driver Instructor and Examiner (DIE) Qualification Standard. (USPS #Q90V-4Q-C 95004852; 4/13/2004)

News Article | February 2, 2026

Resource Management Database (RMD) Settlement

A pre-arbitration settlement (USPS #Q98C-4Q-C 01005505) concerning the Postal Service’s Resource Management Database (RMD) and its web-based enterprise Resource Management System (eRMS). 

News Article | February 2, 2026

Union Wins Another Sunday Premium Case

In another significant win for the union, an arbitrator has ruled that the Postal Service must grant Sunday premium pay to employees who work on Sunday, even if the work is the result of an employee's request for a temporary change of schedule for their own personal convenience.

News Article | February 2, 2026

NRLCA Award on Review and Concurrence

A National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA) award in which the arbitrator found that Article 16.6 of the USPS-NRLCA National Agreement, which is not materially different from Article 16.8 of the USPS-APWU National Agreement, is violated “if there is a ‘command decision’ from higher authorit...

News Article | February 2, 2026

Supplemental Award on Remedy in Sunday Premium Case

In this award, Arbitrator Das denied the APWU's position that his Sunday Premium Award (see Union Wins Another Sunday Premium Case below) should be applied retroactively to all employees on a nationwide basis. 

News Article | February 2, 2026

Settlement Reached in Individual Retirement Counseling Dispute [pdf]

On September 21, 2009, the APWU and the Postal Service reached a pre-arbitration settlement over a dispute concerning management’s responsibility to provide individual retirement counseling for employees.

News Article | February 2, 2026

Award on USPS Use of Casuals in Lieu of Career Employees

An award by Arbitrator Shyam Das sustaining the APWU’s grievance over the Postal Service’s improper use of casuals in lieu of career employees.

News Article | February 2, 2026

Union Wins Debt Collection Act Case

In a recent national-level award, Arbitrator Linda Byars ruled that the ELM 460 provision allowing for collection of postal debts by the Postal Service in increments greater than 15% of an employee’s disposable pay or 20% of the employee’s biweekly gross pay per pay period (whichever is lower) viola...

News Article | February 2, 2026

Arbitrator Rules on USPS Refusal to Compensate Employees for Time Spent on a USPS-provided shuttle

In a decision [PDF] dated Aug. 30, Arbitrator Shyam Das denied the union’s grievance protesting management’s refusal to compensate employees for time spent on a USPS-provided shuttle that transported workers between USPS lodging and a training facility before and after their workdays or during their...

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