Arbitrator Das, ruling in an NALC grievance in which the APWU intervened, ordered the Postal Service to rescind changes agreed to by the APWU and the USPS in a 2006 MOU “Re: Limited Duty and Rehabilitation Assignments Within APWU Crafts Involving Workers from Other Crafts.” The MOU provided that the reassignment or reemployment of an employee injured on duty was required to be “accomplished through Article 13 of the National Agreement applicable to the craft to which the employee is being reassigned.” The NALC objected that the change would adversely affect language in Article 13 of the NALC agreement, and that the Postal Service could not make these changes without negotiating with the NALC.

Click here for a copy of the arbitrator’s decision http://www.apwu.org/dept/ind-rel/awd-set/Q01N4QC07229522ELM546Revision.pdf