{"id":27581,"date":"2019-11-07T10:49:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27581"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:50:59","slug":"nalc-case-consolidation-lawsuit-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/11\/07\/nalc-case-consolidation-lawsuit-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC Case Consolidation Lawsuit Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NALC 11\/06\/19 &#8211; The federal district court in Washington D.C. today issued a decision dismissing NALC\u2019s lawsuit that sought to halt the Consolidated Casing Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg concluded that the court lacked jurisdiction to issue the preliminary injunction that NALC requested, which would have halted the Initiative pending the outcome of the national-level arbitration.\u00a0 The arbitration is presently scheduled to begin November 22, before national arbitrator Shyam Das.<\/p>\n<p>The court reasoned that a preliminary injunction halting an employer action pending arbitration is only warranted when the employer\u2019s action would render the arbitration \u201cmeaningless.\u201d\u00a0 The court concluded that a preliminary injunction was not warranted here because Arbitrator Das will have the authority (if he rules for NALC) to find that the Consolidated Casing Initiative violates the National Agreement and to order USPS to end it.<\/p>\n<p>To read the entire opinion,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/nalc-updates\/body\/25-11-6-19-court-order-denying-preliminary-injunction-motion-01140772-1.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/postal-workers-union-loses-bid-to-stop-job-reforms-in-virginia\">Postal Workers Union Loses Bid to Stop Job Changes in Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5863\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NALC-News3-300x168.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NALC-News3-300x168.gif 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NALC-News3-123x70.gif 123w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NALC-News3-254x141.gif 254w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NALC-News3.gif 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NALC 11\/06\/19 &#8211; The federal district court in Washington D.C. today issued a decision dismissing NALC\u2019s lawsuit that sought to halt the Consolidated Casing Initiative. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg concluded that the court lacked jurisdiction to issue the preliminary injunction that NALC requested, which would have halted the Initiative pending the outcome of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-nalc-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581","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=27581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27584,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581\/revisions\/27584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}