Editing Section 1.1 NA2019

=== Section 1.1 Recognition ===
The Employer recognizes the Union designated below as the exclusive bargaining representative of all employees in the bargaining unit for which the Union has been recognized and certified at the national level:
National Postal Mail Handlers Union, A Division of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, AFL-CIO.
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The NPMHU is the exclusive bargaining agent representing mail handlers and 
mail handler assistants employed by the U.S. Postal Service. It has been so 
recognized in accordance with the terms of the Postal Reorganization Act (PRA) 
of 1970, which transformed the federal government agency known as the “Post 
Office Department” into an independent establishment of the Government of the
United States, the “United States Postal Service.” The PRA also granted 
bargaining-unit employees the right to bargain collectively with respect to “rates 
of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment.”
As the exclusive bargaining representative for all mail handlers, the NPMHU is 
the only organization that is entitled to represent mail handlers in their collective 
bargaining relationship with the Postal Service. 
The other unions exclusively representing large, national groups of USPS craft 
employees are:
APWU or American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO: clerks, maintenance, motor 
vehicle, mail equipment shops and material distribution center employees;
NALC or National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO: city letter carriers; and
NRLCA or National Rural Letter Carriers Association: rural letter carriers. 
The NPMHU and the unions representing other postal crafts all negotiated 
together and executed joint National Agreements with the U.S. Postal Service 
covering the periods 1971-73 and 1973-75. The NRLCA bargained separately 
for its 1975-78 Agreement and all agreements thereafter. The NPMHU remained 
in a jointly-bargained National Agreement with the APWU and NALC covering the 
periods 1975-78 and 1978-81. Beginning in 1981, and continuing to this day, the 
NPMHU has bargained separately for its own National Agreement. The APWU 
and NALC continued to bargain together as the Joint Bargaining Committee in 
1981, 1984, 1987, and 1990, but have bargained separately since 1994. 
Presently, therefore, the four major postal unions have separate National 
Agreements with the Postal Service.
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