REGULAR ARBITRATION PANEL
Between: United States Postal Service
Grievant: Class Action
and National Postal Mail Handlers Union
Post Office: SLC, P&DC
Before: Ed Escamilla, Arbitrator
Case No: E98M-1E-C01011744
Appearances: for U.S. Postal Service: Frank Taylor
MT12800
for the Union:
Woody Hendrickson
Date of Hearing: September 6, 2002
Date of Briefs: October 4, 2002
ISSUE
Did the Postal Service violate Article 32.2A and the pre arbitration
settlement agreement of Case E90M-1E-C92047564 executed on December 1995?
If so what is the appropriate remedy?
AWARD
The grievance is sustained. The Postal Service is directed to
comply with the Stipulation and Agreement and to afford full faith and credit
to all of the terms of said Agreement; adhere to Article 32.2A; and is directed
to assign the Grievant to assist HCR drivers when the drivers are exclusively
unloading/loading trucks.
Following Arbitrator Zodrow remedy in his cases, the Postal Service is directed
herein, to pay overtime pay to employees on the ODL that under normal overtime
situation would have worked four hours on each of the four days that HCR
drivers exclusively unloaded their vehicles (September 12 - 15).