Every postal supervisor, manager and postmaster is impacted by the outcome of pay consultations between NAPS and the USPS. Therefore, the fairness of the process is paramount. Executive Administrative Schedule (EAS)-level postal employees recognize that the unfair process -- where the USPS may ignore the views of not only NAPS, the legally recognized representative of virtually all EAS-level postal personnel, but also may reject the findings of an independent and expert Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service fact-finding panel -- must be reformed. 

In February 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia validated the conclusions reached by a FMCS panel that EAS employees were treated unfairly and in violation of existing law (Section 1004 of Title 39 of the United States Code). Passage of H.R. 594, the Postal Supervisors and Managers Fairness Act, would amend Title 39 in two ways: It would accelerate the consultative process to prevent a financially harmful lapse between the periodic results of EAS-pay schedule changes, and it would ensure that the recommendations and decisions rendered by a FMCS fact-finding panel would be binding.

Please urge your member of Congress to co-sponsor H.R. 594.