{"id":39762,"date":"2026-07-06T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39762"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:13:50","slug":"2025-npmhu-national-agreement-impasse-letter-to-the-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/2025-npmhu-national-agreement-impasse-letter-to-the-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 NPMHU National Agreement Impasse Letter to the USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Doug &amp; Mike,<\/p>\n<p>7\/5\/26 &#8211; I am writing in regard to our negotiations for a successor to the 2022- 2025 National Agreement. The parties have been engaged in negotiations for nearly a year. While we have made progress in many areas, we have not been able to reach an agreement on the terms of the successor contract.<br \/>\nAs a result of this impasse in negotiations, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union is invoking the dispute resolution procedures outlined in the Postal Reorganization Act.<\/p>\n<p>I have directed the Union&#8217;s representatives to meet with your team to discuss the process that will be followed going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully,<\/p>\n<p>Paul V. Hogrogian<br \/>\nNational President<br \/>\nNational Postal Mail Handlers Union, AFL-CIO<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npmhu.org\/media\/news\/2025%20NPMHU%20Natl%20Agreement%20Impasse%20Ltr%206-5-26.pdf\">Click here for PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13103\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-266x266.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Doug &amp; Mike, 7\/5\/26 &#8211; I am writing in regard to our negotiations for a successor to the 2022- 2025 National Agreement. The parties have been engaged in negotiations for nearly a year. While we have made progress in many areas, we have not been able to reach an agreement on the terms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39762","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=39762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39763,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39762\/revisions\/39763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}