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Episode 166: Stay in Your Lane How Branch 41 Won Grievance
This episode breaks down Local NALC Grievance Case involving City Letter Carrier . This was not fundamentally a case about whether management could explain the Postal Service's Zero Tolerance Policy. The real question was muchbigger: Can management enter into a grievance settlement with another union that imposes mandatory obligations on an NALC-represented city letter carrier without consulting the NALC?
Branch 41 said no.
Management said its Article 3 rights permitted what it did and argued that Letter carrier suffered no contractual harm because there was no discipline or loss of wages…
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