The Postal Service has announced that it reached a tentative four-year contract agreement with the American Postal Workers Union affecting about 272,000 career employees in clerk, maintenance and motor vehicle crafts.
USPS is talking separately with its four largest unions this year. Negotiations with the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union are ongoing while negotiations with the National Association of Letter Carriers have moved to arbitration — partly because of a dispute over the possible outsourcing of some urban mail delivery.
APWU president William Burrus praised the agreement with USPS, saying it “protects the rights and interests of postal workers.”
