ARTICLE 1
1. The Union (NALC) collectively bargains as a result of an agreement from the first National Agreement.
2. The NALC must equally represent all city letter carriers in contractual matters, even if they don't belong to the Union.
3. Managers and supervisors are excluded from the bargaining unit.
4. Casuals are not part of the NALC bargaining unit.
5. The use of the term "scab" by a Union is protected by the National Labor Relations Act.
6. A 204-B who is disciplined for an act while actually serving as a supervisor is represented by NAPS.
7. Management can assign duties to letter carriers outside the job description found in the EL-311 Handbook.
8. Management may not convert from rural to city delivery nor vice versa.
9. If a special delivery craft exists in an installation they have exclusive jurisdiction over delivery of Express Mail.
10. The delivery and transporting of Express Mail is exclusively letter carrier work.
11. Supervisors may case mail into letter carrier cases.
12. When supervisors perform craft work in violation of Article 1, there is no remedy if the amount of time is de minimis.
13. An emergency, as referred to in Article 1.6.A., is an unforeseen circumstance or a combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action in a situation which is not expected to be of a recurring nature.
ARTICLE 2
14. If a carrier is discriminated against for reasons of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age or marital status, the employee can file a grievance.
15. There is no responsibility to reasonably accommodate a qualified handicapped person.
16. If a grievance is filed protesting discrimination on the basis of one of the categories listed in Article 2, such grievance must be initiated at Step 1 with the immediate supervisor.
17. A meeting with an EEO counselor can only be done off-the-clock and may not include the complainant's representative.
18. An EEO settlement automatically voids a grievance if the issues or remedies are the same.
19. While Step 2 representatives are not entitled to travel time, EEO representatives are.
20. The Postal Service may assign an employee to a fixed schedule of Saturdays off for religious reasons even where the Local Memo provides for rotating days off.
21. The Postal Service has no requirement to attempt to provide accommodation of religious needs with respect to schedules.
ARTICLE 3
22. An emergency is contractually defined as any incident which could not be foreseen.
23. You cannot grieve a violation of Article 3.
ARTICLE 5
24. Laws concerning wages, hours and working conditions are not applied to letter carriers.
25. Past practices should never be argued in the grievance procedure.
26. Management may preclude the use of portable radios by employees whether the past practice allows such or not.