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| The NPMHU is the exclusive bargaining agent representing mail handlers and
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| mail handler assistants employed by the U.S. Postal Service. It has been so
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| recognized in accordance with the terms of the Postal Reorganization Act (PRA)
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| of 1970, which transformed the federal government agency known as the “Post
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| Office Department” into an independent establishment of the Government of the
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| United States, the “United States Postal Service.” The PRA also granted
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| bargaining-unit employees the right to bargain collectively with respect to “rates
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| of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment.”
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| As the exclusive bargaining representative for all mail handlers, the NPMHU is
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| the only organization that is entitled to represent mail handlers in their collective
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| bargaining relationship with the Postal Service.
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| The other unions exclusively representing large, national groups of USPS craft
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| employees are:
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| APWU or American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO: clerks, maintenance, motor
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| vehicle, mail equipment shops and material distribution center employees;
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| NALC or National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO: city letter carriers; and
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| NRLCA or National Rural Letter Carriers Association: rural letter carriers.
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| The NPMHU and the unions representing other postal crafts all negotiated
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| together and executed joint National Agreements with the U.S. Postal Service
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| covering the periods 1971-73 and 1973-75. The NRLCA bargained separately
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| for its 1975-78 Agreement and all agreements thereafter. The NPMHU remained
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| in a jointly-bargained National Agreement with the APWU and NALC covering the
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| periods 1975-78 and 1978-81. Beginning in 1981, and continuing to this day, the
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| NPMHU has bargained separately for its own National Agreement. The APWU
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| and NALC continued to bargain together as the Joint Bargaining Committee in
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| 1981, 1984, 1987, and 1990, but have bargained separately since 1994.
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| Presently, therefore, the four major postal unions have separate National
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| Agreements with the Postal Service.
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| == ARTICLE 1 UNION RECOGNITION == | | == ARTICLE 1 UNION RECOGNITION == |