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Materials Reference System About |
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September 11, 2006 |
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| 2006 MRS Index |
| The May 2006 MRS Index and Summaries contains summaries of key contractual documents and direct links to M-number documents through M-01563.
NALC members may download the 2006 MRS Index by right-clicking the image at right and choosing Save. To get all the original M-number documents together with the MRS Index, order the NALC Contract CD from the NALC supply department ($2 per disk).
To browse the MRS Index, click the image at right. To download it, right-click and choose Save Target or Save Link.
To open a specific M-number document, enter the number and click Submit: |
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Latest Key MRS Documents |
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Here are summaries of MRS materials numbered higher than M-01563 — those published later than, and not included in, the 2006 Contract CD. These materials are in Adobe Acrobat format. Click a link to view the PDF document online, or right-click and choose Save Target or Save Link to download. More Information |
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M-01681 - April 8, 2008 - OWCP response to NALC regarding whether or not an employee may use annual leave, sick leave or leave without pay during the statutory three-day waiting period prior to accruing the right to compensation for a temporary disability lasting less than fourteen days.
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M-01678 - March 24, 2008 - A mutual agreement between NALC and the Postal Service that the parties at the local, regional, and national level are granted a waiver of the grievance time limits during the month of July 2008.
- M-01672 - January 24, 2008 - Interpretive Dispute concerning the denial of administrative leave to letter carrier craft employees who attend political party caucuses in 2008 to select their parties' nominees for President of the United States.
- M-01671 - January 30, 2008 - NALC's withdrawal of national level case number Q01N-4Q-C
07201183. The national level case was withdrawn because PS Form 2497, Election of Medical Care was withdrawn by the Postal Service on September 12, 2007
- M-01668 - December 28, 2007 - NLRB decision ruling that a supervisor conducting an investigatory interview improperly prevented a steward from speaking when the steward sought to object to a "loaded" question asked of the letter carrier being interrogated.
- M-01666 - July 30, 2007 - Step IV Resolution—Article 15—Dispute Resolution Process, failure to activate certain individuals to act as Step B team members
- M-01665 - July 30, 2007 - Step IV Resolution—FSS impact and the associated employment of Transitional Employees
- M-01664 - July 30, 2007 - Step IV Resolution—DOIS
- M-01663 - July 30, 2007 - Step IV Resolution—Third Bundle
- M-01662 - July 30, 2007 - Step IV Resolution—S-999 mail (hold mail, caller mail, change of address mail, non-delivery day mail) processed on DPS automation equipment must receive piece credit.
- M-01661 - July 30, 2007 - Step IV Resolution—Carrier Optimal Routing (COR) process is a management tool to assist with the adjustment of letter carrier routes pursuant to Chapter 2 Handbook M-39.
- M-01660 - Step IV Resolution - MOU Re: Subcontracting—List of 3,071 City Delivery Offices
- M-01659 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Transitional Employee Employment Opportunities
- M-01658 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Local Implementation
- M-01657 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Sick Leave for Dependent Care
- M-01656 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Leave Sharing
- M-01655 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Customer Connect Program
- M-01654 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Alternate Route Review Evaluation Process
- M-01653 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Subcontracting MOU Issues
- M-01652 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Subcontracting
- M-01651 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Article 32 Committee—The Joint Committee established pursuant to Article 32.2. shall be tasked with reviewing existing policies and practices concerning the contracting out of mail delivery.
- M-01650 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Article 17.7.D Payroll Deductions/Allotments—USPS will increase the maximum allotments in the existing program by providing one additional allotment for the use of NALC bargaining unit employees.
- M-01649 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Arbitration Task Force
- M-01648 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Article 15—Dispute Resolution Process
- M-01647 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—District Safety Committee Pilot Program
- M-01646 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Mutual Exchanges CC-01 and CC-02 city letter carriers are considered as being in the same grade. This agreement applies solely to determining whether employees are eligible for mutual exchanges.
- M-01645 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Bereavement Leave
- M-01644 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—FSS Work Methods
- M-01643 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—FSS Implementation
- M-01642 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Transitional Employees (Flat Sequencing System)
- M-01641 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Transitional Employees—Additional Provisions.
- M-01640 - September 11, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding Article 7.1... “The parties further agree that no city letter carrier casuals will be on the rolls later than December 9, 2007.”
- M-01639 - October 9, 2007 - Article 43 Separability and Duration
- M-01635 - January 9, 2008 - Management practices relating to the application of the Family Medical Leave Act documentation requirements under Employee and Labor Relations Manual 515.51.
- M-01634 - December 27, 2007 - USPS/NALC Data Collection – FSS Work Methods Joint Task Force Memorandum of Agreement: The parties agreed that data collected in Hyattsville, MD under the direction of the FSS Work Methods Joint Task Force will be the sole and exclusive use of the Task Force in exploring alternative work methods necessary for handling mail in an FSS environment and to support its joint report to the NALC President and the Postal Service Vice President, Labor Relations outlining findings and recommendations.
- M-01633 - December 21, 2007 - Questions and Answers (27) about NALC Transitional Employees
- M-01632 - December 21, 2007 - Agreement to continue discussion of issues concerning the employment of city letter carrier transitional employees.
- M-01631 - December 19, 2007 - Interpretive Level Disputes Resolved with 2006 National Agreement: National level disputes regarding Carrier Optimal Routing (COR), S-999 Mail, Third Bundle, Delivery Operations Information System (DOIS), Flat Sequencing System (FSS), and Dispute Resolution Process (DRP).
- M-01630 - August 30, 2007 - Memorandum of Understanding—Extension of Negotiation Period for Local Implementation. The top portion of this Memorandum is the agreement between the parties to extend the negotiation period and related deadlines by 15 days. The lower portion of the document is the NALC calendar showing the revised dates.
- M-01629 - August 3, 2007 - Medical documentation contents ELM 513.362 and 513.364
- M-01628 - March 22, 2005 - Please be advised that pursuant to the enclosed memorandum, certain types of work place investigations of employee misconduct are being transitioned to the Office of Inspector General from the Inspection Service. This transition will not restrict, eliminate, or otherwise adversely affect any rights, privileges, or benefits of either employees of the Postal Service, or labor organizations representing employees of the Postal Service.
- M-01626 - April 2, 2007 - City letter carriers may claim “closer to home” when submitting bids through the Interactive Voice Recognition System or by computer bidding.
- M-01625 - June 27, 2007 - Office of Workers’ Compensation Program - the first COP day is the first day disability begins following the date of injury…except where the injury occurs before the beginning of the work day or shift.
- M-01624 - November 14, 2005 - USPS Delivery Operations Information System (DOIS) Data Integrity Memorandum: Memorandum stipulating that it is the district’s responsibility to ensure that delivery units are accurately recording volume and other information in DOIS and area managers are to verify compliance.
- M-01623 - June 25, 2007 - Pre-Arbitration Decision: Pre-arbitration decision that the Postal Service affirmatively asserts that there were no subsequent revisions in Issue 16 of the ELM that directly relate to wages, hours, or working conditions pursuant to Article 19 of the National Agreement.
- M-01621 - June 1, 2007 - USPS/NALC Customer Connect Updates Memorandum: Memorandum stipulating updates and reiteration of required and agreed upon mandates for the Customer Connect program.
- M-01619 - June 1, 2007 - Postal Service Letter: Postal Service response regarding the second phase of PostalPEOPLE implementation affecting the National Agreement’s requirement to post vacant or newly established duty assignment within five days.
- M-01613 - May 3, 2007 - USPS/NALC Memorandum of Understanding Re: Multiple Days of Inspection.
- M-01612 - May 2, 2007 - Pre-Arbitration Decision: Pre-arbitration decision that the Postal Service affirmatively asserts that there are no changes that directly relate to wages, hours, or working conditions pursuant to Article 19 of the National Agreement for revisions made ELM, Section 430, Basic and Special Pay Provisions, which were transmitted to NALC by letter dated April 12, 2000.
- M-01611 - September 27, 2001 - Step 4 Settlement stipulating when an employee declines a valid limited duty job offer may request and receive paid sick leave if incapacitated for duty.
- M-01610 - USPS/NALC Joint Statement of Support of Carrier Alert: Joint Statement from John Potter and William Young on the 25 th anniversary of Carrier Alert.
- M-01609 - April 5, 1985 - Postal Service Correspondence: Regarding miscellaneous Article 8 issues.
- M-01608 - April 3, 2007 - Interpretive Dispute Settlement concerning the conversion of a manual postal form to an electronically generated version.
- M-01607 - August 11, 2006 - Pratt v. DOT (DA-3443-06-0283-I-1) MSPB Decision.
- M-01606 - March 23, 2007 - NALC-USPS Memorandum: Regarding the processing of future city/rural disputes.
- M-01605 - March 12, 2007 - Article 41.2.D.2 Interpretive Step Settlement: Concerning the seniority of city letter carriers who are restored to postal duty after military service.
- M-01604 - March 7, 2007 - Miller v. USPS (PH-3443-06-0392-I-1) MSPB Decision.
- M-01603 - July 24, 2003 - US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Case: Butterbaugh v. Department of Justice (02-3331). See M-01604 above.
- M-01602 - February 26, 2007 - Interpretive Dispute: Initiation at the national level of an interpretive dispute between the parties arising from recent management initiatives to assign new deliveries in city delivery territory to Contract Delivery Service.
- M-01600 - February 21, 2007 - Interpretive Disputes: Initiation at the national level of an interpretive dispute between the parties arising from management's intention to implement Flat Sequencing System (FSS).
- M-01599 - November 8, 2006 - Release Notes for COR Version 1.5.
- M-01598 - FY 2007 Environmental Health Safety Integrated Inspection Schedule.
- M-01597 - December 19, 2006 - Postal Service Correspondence: Concerning the "Deems Desirable" function in eRMS and the restricted sick leave provisions of ELM Section 513.39.
- M-01596 - January 11, 2007 - Postal Service Correspondence: Concerning the resetting of bid counts for letter carriers to zero.
- M-01595 - December 26, 2006 - Interpretive Dispute Settlement concerning the parties' established practice for scheduling arbitrations for the Nevada Sierra District. See M-01582 below.
- M-01594 - September 30, 1985 - NALC-USPS Settlement regarding part-time flexibles with greater craft seniority than full-time employees when scheduling vacation.
- M-01593 - November 17, 1982 - Step 4 Settlement concerning revisions to the formula for computing the 150 and 200 or more work years of employment reports.
- M-01592 - March 3, 1982 - Step 4 Settlement concerning July 17, 1930 Executive Order 5396, President Herbert Hoover.
- M-01591 - January 13, 1981 - Step 4 Settlement concerning whether an employee, who volunteered to work on a holiday was properly passed over.
- M-01590 - November 14, 1979 - Step 4 Settlement concerning employees who are members of the National Guard and who are called to active duty to replace striking prison guards are entitled to additional military leave under existing regulations.
- M-01589 - June 21, 1982 - Step 4 Settlement concerning part-time flexibles requesting leave on a non-scheduled day.
- M-01588 - November 30, 2006 - USPS/NALC Memorandum of Agreement: Agreement recognizing that the devastation from Hurricane Katrina in the area serviced by the Buras, Louisiana Post Office resulted in a significant reduction in delivery points and the reassignment of city letter carriers to other installations. The parties agreed that the remaining city delivery points in Buras and any former city delivery points that return will be serviced temporarily by the rural letter carrier craft.
- M-01586 - November 1, 2006 - Interpretive Dispute: Initiation at the national level of an interpretive dispute concerning revisions to Handbook AS-805, Information Security, published in Postal Bulletin 22190 (9-28-06).
- M-01585 - April 12, 2000 - Department of Labor, Office of Workers Compensation Programs responding to a question regarding 20 C.F.R. 10.506 - that limits employing agencies to written contact with physicians treating injured workers covered by FECA.
- M-01584 - August 29, 2006 - Interpretive Dispute: Initiation at the national level of an interpretive dispute concerning the proper hiring of casual employees at one installation, and the subsequent loaning of such casual employees to installations where the circumstances described in the May 29, 1986 Downes Memorandum (M-01451) have not been met.
- M-01583 - September 13, 2006 - Interpretive Dispute Resolution
- M-01582 - September 21, 2006 - Interpretive Dispute: Initiation at the national level of an interpretive dispute between the parties arising from management's claim that it may unilaterally discontinue the parties' established practice for scheduling arbitrations for the Nevada Sierra District. See M-01595 above.
- M-01581 - September 8, 2006 - NALC-USPS Memorandum: Regarding Ex Parte communications with an arbitrator.
- M-01580 - July 12, 2006 - NALC Correspondence: Requesting a waiver of time limits for all grievances during the month of August 2006.
- M-01579 - June 20, 2006 - Postal Service Correspondence: Concerning "time of call or request" information on PS Form 3971 completed through eRMS/IVRS.
- M-01578 - May 24, 2006 - Postal Service Correspondence: Concerning requests for voluntary reassignments in eReassign.
- M-01577 - April 10, 2006 - Postal Service response regarding revisions to Handbook EL-505, Injury Compensation, December 1995 (Updated With Postal Bulletin Revisions Through May 8, 1997), Exhibit 6.1, Sample Letter: Limited Duty Availability.
- M-01576 - August 9, 2006 - Pre-arbitration settlement concerning proposed revisions to ELM Issue 15, Chapter 540, Injury Compensation Program that were published in ELM Issue 16, August 2000.
- M-01575 - August 2, 2006 - Interpretive Step Settlement: Interpretive Step settlement concerning the discontinuance in some postal districts of providing employees with individual pre-retirement counseling.
- M-01574 - July 3, 2006 - Postal Service Letter: Postal Service notice that it is considering subcontracting the tender and receipt of mail currently performed by bargaining unit employees at 43 Air Mail Centers.
- M-01573 - May 19, 2006 - Postal Service Letter: Postal Service response concerning the voluntary establishment of a Postal Service program for retroactive payment of monetary remedies to current and former employees who had military leave deducted for military service on non-scheduled days during military leave periods.
- M-01572 - May 31, 2006 - Postal Service Letter: Postal Service response concerning the granting of saved rate to qualified injured or disabled employees whose current salary exceeds the maximum salary of the new grade to which reassigned.
- M-01571 - May 6, 2006 - NALC/USPS Memorandum of Understanding: Memorandum of Understanding regarding multiple days of inspection of less than six days during a six day count and inspection in accordance with Chapter 2 of the M-39.
- M-01570 - May 4, 2006 - NALC/USPS Memorandum of Understanding: Memorandum of Understanding regarding the National Accident Reduction Task Force.
- M-01569 - April 25, 2006 - USPS/NALC Dispute Resolution Process (DRP) Memorandum: Memorandum addressing timeliness at various steps in the DRP; the last day to mail the appeal to Formal Step A; and the use of G-10 envelopes for appeals.
- M-01568 - March 8, 2006 - Memorandum of Understanding between the USPS and the NALC and the NRLCA regarding the processing of future city/rural disputes.
- M-01567 - March 3, 2006 - Interpretive Step Settlement: Interpretive Step settlement that data collection and testing conducted pursuant to the Delivery Redesign initiative did not result in any changes to current work measurement systems or work or time standards and that a test conducted pursuant to Article 34 does not modify provisions of the National Agreement, including handbooks, manuals and published regulations incorporated through Article 19, beyond the scope of the new work measurement system or work or time standard being tested. The parties also agreed that Article 8 of the National Agreement was modified or amended during Delivery Redesign testing.
- M-01566 - May 12, 1994 - Step 4 Settlement stipulating that if it is expected that the use of PS Form 3996 will be of a recurring nature after the adjustments resulting from the route inspection are implemented, then the appropriate time should be entered on Line 21 when completing PS Form 1838-C. However, if the use of PS Form 3996 is not expected to be of a recurring nature after the adjustments are implemented, then the time filling out of PS Form 3996 should be entered in Line 22. The determination for whether or not the time filling out of PS Form 3996 is recurring or non-recurring must be made locally on a route-by-route basis.
- M-01565 - February 16, 2006 - Initiation at the national level, of an interpretive dispute between the parties arising from management's claim that it may discontinue providing in-person retirement counseling for letter carriers.
- M-01564 - February 9, 2006 - Initiation at the national level, of an interpretive dispute between the parties arising from management's claim that it may abolish full-time delivery routes, and substitute new part-time or auxiliary routes consisting of less than eight hours work.
- M-01514 - March 31, 2004 - Postal Service Letter: Postal Service response stipulating that when management decides to domicile a Vehicle Operations Maintenance Assistant (VOMA) position outside the installation of the VMF, the position is filled by selection of the senior qualified employee assigned to the office domiciled from the eligible crafts. Once selected, the employee remains in his/her craft and office; the selected employee is not reassigned to the VMF.
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About the Materials Reference System |
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The NALC Materials Reference System (MRS) is a comprehensive collection of national-level settlements, important memorandums of understanding, management policy statements and additional materials useful for NALC contract enforcers. The MRS has two parts:
- MRS Index and Summaries: This is a guide to nearly all significant national-level contract administration materials. Start here when researching a contractual issue.
The MRS Index and Summaries document is heavily indexed by subject, by National Agreement provision and by USPS manual provision. It contains contains short summaries of and references to:
- Settlements of Interpretive Step (formerly Step 4) grievances settled prior to an appeal to arbitration, and "Pre-arbs" settled after such an appeal.
- National Memorandums of Understanding not published in the National Agreement.
- Management policy statements and letters.
- National-level arbitration decisions.
- Selected regional-level arbitration decisions.
- MRS Original Materials: These are scans of the original MRS materials (except arbitration decisions, which are contained in the separate NALC Computer Arbitration System). MRS materials are available from the offices NALC's National Business Agents and on the Contract CD.
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