National Postal Mail Handlers 2011 Contract Resolved Through Interest Arbitration
February 19, 2013
On February 19, 2013, the three-member arbitration panel established to determine the terms of the 2011 National Agreement between the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the U.S. Postal Service released its Award. The Award fully protects the jobs and careers and living standards of all 42,000 career mail handlers now employed by the Postal Service. After a two-year wage freeze, it restores, starting in November 2013 and continuing through May 2016, the historic pattern of annual general wage increases and semi-annual cost-of-living adjustments for all current mail handlers. Attorneys from Bredhoff & Kaiser assisted with the contract negotiations and presented the Union’s case in the interest arbitration.