Templates & Starters
Article 1: Union Recognition
Article 2: Non-Discrimination and Civil Rights
Article 3: Management Rights
Article 4: Technological and Mechanization Changes
Article 5: Prohibition of Unilateral Action
Article 6: No Layoffs or Reduction in Force
Article 7: Employee Classifications
- 7 – Full Time Flexible – Failure to Create Position and Convert (Source: nalc421.com)
- 7.1.C.3 – CCA Term Less than 360 Days (Source: nalc421.com)
- 7.1.C.4 – CCA Worked Before PTF Makes 40 Straight Time Hours (Source: nalc421.com)
- 7.2 – Crossing Crafts (Source: nalc421.com)
- 7.3.A – PTFs – Failure to Convert (Source: nalc421.com)
- 7.3.C – PTF Maximization – Failure to Create Position and Convert
- 7.3.C – Full-Time Flexible – Failure to Create Position and Convert (Source: nalc421.com)
- 7.3.D – Auxiliary Route Conversion (Source: nalc421.com)
Article 8: Hours of Work
- Equitable Distribution of OT
- 8.5 – Daily OT Violation (Source: nalc421.com)
- 8.5 – Daily OT Violation (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- 8.5 – Daily Violation – Improperly Forcing Non-ODL and Work Assignment (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- 8.5.F – WA-Non ODL-Weekly-Daily Workhour Violations (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- 8.5.G – 12/60 Hour Rule (Source: nalc421.com)
- 8.5.G – 60 Hour Rule (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- 8.5.G – Non-ODL 11.5hr Daily-60hr Week Rules (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- 8.5.G – ODL Work Assignment 12hr Daily-60hr Week Limitations (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- 8.5.G – CCA Daily Workhour Limitations (Source: nalc421.com)
- 8.8.B – Guaranteed Time – Full Time Regular (Source: nalc421.com)
- 8.8.C – Guaranteed Time – Part Time Flexible (Source: nalc421.com)
- 8.8.D – Guaranteed Time – CCA (Source: nalc421.com)
Article 9: Salaries and Wages
Article 10: Leave
Article 11: Holidays
Article 12: Principles of Seniority, Posting and Reassignments
- Excessing – Improper Placement of Clerk (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Retreat Rights – Failure to Offer – Comparative Work Hour Report
- Article 12/15 – Improper Withholding – Carrier Technician Job (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Article 12/15 – Improper Withholding – Non-Carrier Technician Job (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Article 12/15 – NTFT Clerk Improperly Excessed to Full-Time Letter Carrier Position (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
Article 13: Assignments of Ill or Injured Regular Workforce Employees
- Light Duty – Failure to Provide (Source: nalc421.com)
Article 14: Safety and Health
- Failure to Abate 1767 Hazard (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
Article 15: Grievance-Arbitration Procedure
- Locally Developed Forms
- Signing Local Forms
- CCAs Assigned Rural Work
- CCA Temporary Loan – Non Compliance – M-01827 (Source: nalc421.com)
- Article 15/19/41 – Unauthorized Overtime – Improperly Recorded on PS Form 1017-B (Source: nalc421.com)
- DOIS – M-01664 – Improper Recording of Time Data (Source: nalc421.com)
- DOIS – M-01664 – Volume Not Recorded Accurately (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Failure to Meet at Informal A (Source: nalc421.com)
- Failure to Meet at Formal A (Source: nalc421.com)
- Failure to Comply with Grievance Settlement (Source: nalc421.com)
- Non-Compliance with Arbitration Awards (Source: nalc421.com)
- Non Compliance – M-01834 – Conversion of Full Time Regulars (Source: nalc421.com)
- PTFs – Full-Time Flexible – Maximization MOU – Failure to Create Position and Convert (Source: nalc421.com)
- Temporary Loan Non Compliance – M-01827 (Source: nalc421.com)
- Article 15 – Reverse Letter for Parcel / Article 19 – Casing SPRs
- Article 15/19 – Instruction Not to Finger Third Bundle
- Article 15/19 – TV Screens – Route Performance Data
- Article 15/19 – No Lunch – Improper Denial of Temp Change of Schedule (Source: nalc421.com)
- Article 15/19 – Unauthorized Overtime Improperly Recorded (Source: nalc421.com)
- Article 12/15 – Improper Withholding – Carrier Technician Job (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Article 12/15 – Improper Withholding – Non-Carrier Technician Job (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Article 12/15 – NTFT Clerk Improperly Excessed to Full-Time Letter Carrier Position (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
Article 16: Discipline Procedure
Article 17: Representation
Article 18: No Strike
Article 19: Handbooks and Manuals
- Failure to Provide PS Form 3996 When Requested
- Article 19 – Casing SPRs / Article 15 – Reverse Letter for Parcel
- Article 5/19 – Changing Start Times
- Article 15/19 – Instruction Not to Finger Third Bundle
- Article 5/19/34 – One Hour Office Time
- Request to Verify Mail Count During Inspection Denied
- PM – No Accountable Clerk to take Accountables
- Not Allowed to Perform PM Office Duties
- PM Office Duties – Improper Instructions to Not Complete per M-41 (Source: nalc421.com)
- Article 15/19 – No Lunch – Improper Denial of Temp Change of Schedule (Source: nalc421.com)
- Article 5/19/34 – False Editing of Clock Rings (Source: nalc421.com)
- Inaccurately Recording Volumes in DOIS – M-01664 (Source: nalc421.com)
- CCA Loaned – PS Form 1723 Not Provided (Source: nalc421.com)
- Failure to Provide 3996 When Requested (Source: nalc421.com)
- Locally Developed or Modified Forms (Source: nalc421.com)
- Article 15/19/41 – Unauthorized Overtime – Improperly Recorded on PS Form 1017-B (Source: nalc421.com)
Act of God
- Act of God – Union Contentions
- Act of God Contentions – Bellevue Station
- Act of God Contentions – Belle Meade Station
- Act of God – Denial of Administrative Leave (Source: nalc421.com)
- (See Act of God on File Building page)
OWCP
- Injured Worker’s Right to Choose Claim Form (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- COP Terminated (Source: nalc421.com)
- Failure to Process COP (Source: nalc421.com)
- Failure to Properly Pay Injured Worker on Day of Injury (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Improperly Calculating CCA Continuation of Pay (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Failure to Provide OWCP with Pay Rate Information (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Failure to Provide Form CA-1 (Source: nalc421.com)
- Failure to Provide Form CA-2 (Source: nalc421.com)
- Failure to Provide Form CA-16 (Source: nalc421.com)
- Improperly Providing CA-2A instead of CA-1/CA-2 (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Failure to Provide Completed Copy of CA-1/CA-2 to Employee (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Delaying Forwarding of CA-1/CA-2 to OWCP (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Delaying Forwarding of CA-7 to OWCP (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Failure to Provide Health Benefit Refund (Source: nalc421.com)
- Improper Contact with a Physician (Source: nalc421.com)
- Improper Contact of Employee’s Physician In Person or by Phone (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Failure to Provide Copies of Written Contacts with Physician (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Failure to Advise Carrier of Right to Choose a Physician (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Limited Duty – Employee Put in Standby Room (Source: nalc421.com)
- Limited Duty – Instruction to Remain Idle (Source: nalc421.com)
- Limited Duty Withdrawn (Source: nalc421.com)
- Limited Duty Withdrawn (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- Improper and/or Misrepresented Job Offer (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
Adjustments and Inspections
- Minor Adjustments (Source: nalc421.com)
- Review of Minor Route Adjustments Not Done Properly (Source: nalc421.com)
- Special Route Adjustments – Special Route Inspection Not Completed Timely or at All (Source: nalc421.com)
- Failure to Review Minor Route Adjustments (Source: nalc421.com)
- Before – Dry-Run Conducted Improperly (Source: nalc421.com)
- Before – Improper Drawing of 7 Random Weeks for Form 1840-B (Source: nalc421.com)
- Before – Improper Unit and Route Review (Source: nalc421.com)
- Before – Inspection Schedule Not Posted Timely (Source: nalc421.com)
- Before – Union Not Timely Notified of the Inspection (Source: nalc421.com)
- Before – Unsatisfactory Conditions Not Corrected (Source: nalc421.com)
- Carrier Not Timely Notified of Change to Inspection Schedule (Source: nalcbranch40.com)
- During – Request to Verify Mail Count Denied (PS Form 1838-C) (Source: nalc421.com)
- During – Management Completing 1838-C on More Than One Day (Source: nalc421.com)
- After – Improper Review of Route Adjustments (Source: nalc421.com)
- After – Improper Route Evaluation and Adjustment (Source: nalc421.com)
Article 20: Parking
Article 21: Benefit Plans
Article 22: Bulletin Boards
Article 23: Rights of Union Officials to Enter Postal Installations
Article 24: Employees on Leave with Regard to Union Business
Article 25: Higher Level Assignments
Article 26: Uniforms and Work Clothes
Article 27: Employee Claims
Article 28: Employer Claims
- Letter of Demand (Source: nalc421.com)
Article 29: Limitation on Revocation of Driving Privleges
Article 30: Local Implementation
Article 31: Union-Management Cooperation
Article 32: Subcontracting
Article 33: Promotions
Article 34: Work and/or Time Standards
Article 35: Employee Assistance Program
Article 36: Credit Unions and Travel
Article 41: Letter Carrier Craft
- 204Bs – Failure to Provide PS Form 1723 to Union (Source: nalc421.com)
- Career Improperly Removed from Opt (Source: nalc421.com)
- Career Not Allowed to Opt (Source: nalc421.com)
- Career Not Maintaining Opt Hours (Source: nalc421.com)
- CCA Not Allowed to Opt (Source: nalc421.com)
- CCAs – Not Maintaining Hours – Opt (Source: nalc421.com)
- CCAs – Removal from Opt (Source: nalc421.com)
- Failure to Post Full-Time Reserve Position (Source: nalc421.com)
- Improper Reversion of Full-Time Assignment (Source: nalc421.com)
- PTFs Not Allowed to Opt (Source: nalc421.com)
- PTFs Not Maintaining Opt Hours (Source: nalc421.com)
- Working Off the Clock (Source: nalc421.com)
- Article 30/41 – Failure to Timely Post Vacant Assignment (Source: nalc421.com)
- 204B in Excess of 4 Months (Source: nalc421.com)
- Failure to Provide 1723 for 204B (Source: nalc421.com)
- Improper Placement on Seniority Roster (Source: nalc421.com)
- Article 15/19/41 – Unauthorized Overtime – Improperly Recorded on PS Form 1017-B (Source: nalc421.com)
Article 42: Energy Shortages
Article 43: Separability and Duration
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