{"id":27593,"date":"2019-11-08T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27593"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:37:34","slug":"nalc-decision-in-pay-consolidation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/11\/08\/nalc-decision-in-pay-consolidation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"NALC: Decision in Pay Consolidation Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NALC News &#8211; 11\/06\/19 &#8211; National Arbitrator Shyam Das has issued his award in a national interpretive dispute involving the memorandum of understanding regarding the consolidation of NALC pay levels.\u00a0 The memorandum, which went into effect on November 24, 2018, elevated all Grade 1 letter carriers to the former Grade 2.\u00a0 Arbitrator Das recognized that the memorandum \u201cprovided Carriers with the increased compensation they would have received if granted an upgrade.\u201d\u00a0 Nonetheless, the arbitrator rejected NALC\u2019s position that this change meant that employees from other crafts in grades equivalent to the former City Carrier Grade 1 could no longer be excessed into the letter carrier craft under Article 12 of the National Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Both APWU and the Mail Handers intervened in the case in support of the Postal Service\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p>The Award is not expected to have a major impact on the letter carrier craft.\u00a0 Evidence presented by NALC at the hearing showed that while 11,589 Level 6 Clerk positions were eliminated in the five-year period from 2014 to 2018, only 98 clerks were excessed into the carrier craft \u2013 0.8 percent of the positions eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>To read Arbitrator Das\u2019 opinion,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalc.org\/news\/nalc-updates\/body\/USPS-NALC-Q16N-4Q-C-18427350-11-5-19.pdf\">click here<\/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 News &#8211; 11\/06\/19 &#8211; National Arbitrator Shyam Das has issued his award in a national interpretive dispute involving the memorandum of understanding regarding the consolidation of NALC pay levels.\u00a0 The memorandum, which went into effect on November 24, 2018, elevated all Grade 1 letter carriers to the former Grade 2.\u00a0 Arbitrator Das recognized that [&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-27593","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\/27593","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=27593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27594,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27593\/revisions\/27594"}],"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=27593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}