Contract Talks Reach Impasse
As we have previously reported, while the 2022-2025 National Agreement ended without an agreement, the parties agreed to extend negotiations with the hope that the parties would be able to find a path forward. Notwithstanding extensive negotiations, the parties remain divided on significant issues. As our prior updates have made clear, a core principle of these negotiations is achieving a wage package that fairly and properly compensates mail handlers for the important work that we do every day. Because the terms offered by the Postal Service have fallen short of those goals, the NPMHU informed the Postal Service today that the parties had reached the point of impasse in those negotiations and that the Mail Handlers were invoking the dispute resolution procedures set forth in the Postal Reorganization Act (PRA).
