{"id":28499,"date":"2020-04-10T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28499"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:23:59","slug":"npmhu-approves-contract-with-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/04\/10\/npmhu-approves-contract-with-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"NPMHU approves contract with USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 4\/09\/20 &#8211; The National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) membership has ratified a new three-year labor contract with the Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p>The contract covers approximately 43,000 employees represented by the union.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the agreement include annual general wage increases, a reduction in the employer share of health premiums, increased flexibility to use non-career mail handler assistant employees, and enhanced health benefits for eligible mail handler assistants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis agreement is balanced. It addresses both parties\u2019 bargaining objectives in a financially responsible manner,\u201d said Labor Relations Vice President Doug Tulino.<\/p>\n<p>The new agreement runs through Sept. 20, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26203\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/usps1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/usps1.jpg 282w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/usps1-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 4\/09\/20 &#8211; The National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) membership has ratified a new three-year labor contract with the Postal Service. The contract covers approximately 43,000 employees represented by the union. Highlights of the agreement include annual general wage increases, a reduction in the employer share of health premiums, increased flexibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499","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=28499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28500,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499\/revisions\/28500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}