{"id":13425,"date":"2015-12-12T09:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=13425"},"modified":"2015-12-12T09:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:43:22","slug":"apwu-contract-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/12\/12\/apwu-contract-update\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU Contract Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

APWU News – 12\/11\/15<\/p>\n

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12\/10\/2015<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Our fight for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement has moved to a new phase, APWU President Mark Dimondstein reports.\"1aa-APWU-small\"<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are taking the preliminary steps necessary to proceed to arbitration,\u201d he said. The first step is to select a three-member arbitration panel, which will be comprised of a union-appointed advocate, a management-appointed advocate and a neutral arbitrator agreed upon by both parties.<\/p>\n

The neutral arbitrator is the person who will ultimately decide the terms of the contract, so this is a vitally important part of the process.<\/p>\n

The APWU and the USPS have exchanged five names each from which we expect to select a neutral arbitrator. As soon as the neutral arbitrator is chosen, both parties will begin scheduling hearing dates, which the APWU anticipates will begin by late January or early February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APWU News – 12\/11\/15 NSB 15-2015\u00a0(1.03 MB) 12\/10\/2015\u00a0–\u00a0Our fight for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement has moved to a new phase, APWU President Mark Dimondstein reports. \u201cWe are taking the preliminary steps necessary to proceed to arbitration,\u201d he said. The first step is to select a three-member arbitration panel, which will be comprised of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13426,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions\/13426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}