MOU Article 30

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

- ARTICLE 30 - LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURES

It is hereby agreed by the United States Postal Service and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, A Division of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, AFL-CIO, that the following procedures will apply to the implementation of Article 30 during the 2019 local implementation period.

1. The thirty (30) consecutive day period for 2019 local implementation will commence, pursuant to agreement by the local parties, on or after May 2, 2020 and terminate on or before June 30, 2020. If the local parties do not reach agreement on the dates for local implementation, the local implementation period shall be from June 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020. Initial proposals must be exchanged within the first twenty one (21) days of the thirty (30) consecutive day local implementation period.

   If neither party provides written notification of its intent to invoke the local implementation process on or before May 15, 2020, presently effective Memoranda of Understanding not inconsistent or in conflict with the 2019 National Agreement shall remain in effect during the term of this Agreement.

2. In the event that any issue(s) remain in dispute at the end of the thirty (30) consecutive day local implementation period, each party shall identify such issue(s) in writing. Initialed copies of this written statement and copies of all proposals and counterproposals pertinent to the issue(s) in dispute will be furnished by the appropriate local party to the appropriate management official at the LR Service Center of the Employer with copies to the Installation Head, local Union President and the Union's Regional Representative within fifteen (15) days after June 30, 2020. Inclusion of any matter in the written statement does not necessarily reflect the agreement of either of the parties that such matter is properly subject to local implementation.
3. The appropriate management official at the Area office and the Regional Union representative shall attempt to resolve the matters in dispute within seventy-five (75) days after June 30, 2020. The appropriate management official at the Area office and the Regional Union representative will have full authority to resolve all issues still in dispute.
4. If the parties identified in paragraph 3 above are unable to reach agreement at the Regional level by the end of the seventy-five (75) day period provided for above, the issue(s) may be appealed to final and binding arbitration by the Union or the Vice President, Labor Relations, within twenty-one (21) days of the end of the seventy-five (75) day period. Any such appeal shall be given priority scheduling on the District Regular Contract Docket.
5. Where there is no agreement and the matter is not referred to the appropriate management official at the LR Service Center or to arbitration, the provision(s), if any, of the former Local Memorandum of Understanding shall apply unless inconsistent with or in conflict with new or amended provisions of the 2019 National Agreement.
6. Where a dispute exists as to whether an item in the former Local Memorandum of Understanding is inconsistent or in conflict with the 2019 Mail Handlers National Agreement, such dispute will be processed in accordance with the procedures outlined in 2 through 4 above. Items declared to be inconsistent or in conflict shall remain in effect until four (4) months have elapsed from the conclusion of the local implementation period under the 2019 National Agreement.

This Memorandum of Understanding expires at 12 midnight on September 20, 2022.