Formatting Introduction CIM6 2024

This Contract Interpretation Manual (CIM), jointly prepared by the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the United States Postal Service, represents a good faith effort to identify contractual issues on which the National parties are in agreement regarding interpretation and application of the parties’ 2022 National Agreement. The CIM is referenced in the National Agreement between the parties at Article 15, Section .3E, which is reprinted below. (Note that actual language from the National Agreement, Memoranda of Understanding and Letters of Intent is shaded in gray throughout the CIM.)

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The parties agree that the CIM will be made available to their representatives who are responsible for handling disputes at the Local and Area/Regional levels and for processing grievances at Steps 1, 2 and 3 of the grievance-arbitration procedure in an effort to reach resolution regarding issues about which the parties are in agreement and to assure consistency and compliance with the terms of the National Agreement. The parties’ agreement in this regard is designed to facilitate the resolution of grievances and to reduce grievance backlogs. Contract interpretations set forth in the CIM may be cited and, if cited, shall be applied to all pending and future cases at Steps 1, 2 and 3 of the grievance procedure, and in Regional arbitration; this includes cases initiated prior to the issuance of the CIM to the extent that the specific contractual or handbook/manual language interpreted in the CIM was in effect at the time the case was initiated and has not subsequently been changed. This Contract Interpretation Manual (CIM), jointly prepared by the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the United States Postal Service, represents a good faith effort to identify contractual issues on which the National parties are in agreement regarding interpretation and application of the parties’ 2022 National Agreement. The CIM is referenced in the National Agreement between the parties at Article 15, Section .3E, which is reprinted below. (Note that actual language from the National Agreement, Memoranda of Understanding and Letters of Intent is shaded in gray throughout the CIM.)