Executive Board

Now serving the members . . .

ED PERALTA

President

ROBBIN C BUCCAT

Vice President / Treasurer

RON VIDAMO

Secretary

MILAN BALEJKA

Legislative Direcetor

SALVADOR ZAPIEN

Motor Vehicle Craft Diretor

BIRBAL BOLA

Maintenance Craft Director

DAN JABLON

Health Plan Director

FAYE SANDERS

Organizing Director

Contract Issues

RI-399 Jurisdictional Disputes

Disputes over work assignments — and which craft should be assigned responsibility for performing specific duties — are known as “jurisdictional disputes.” Disagreements over whether duties in mail processing operations should be assigned to Clerk Craft employees or to Mail Handlers are often referred to as “RI 399” disputes, named for Regional Instruction #399, Mail Processing Work Assignment Guidelines. [PDF] RI 399, which was issued in February 1979 by the Postal Service and modified several times

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RI-399 Monetary Settlement Distribution | APWU

03/02/2019 – As previously reported, in 2018 the APWU, the National Postal Mail Handlers’ Union (NPMHU), and the USPS reached a tripartite agreement updating the RI-399 work jurisdiction process. As part of the agreement on the update to the RI-399 process, all pending RI-399 grievances filed prior to September 1, 2017, were administratively closed with some limited exceptions. The Postal Service agreed that they would pay $14.5 million to each union in consideration of the withdrawal of

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