Postal Supervisors, Managers, and Postmasters Fairness Act of 2026
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Postal Supervisors, Managers, and Postmasters Fairness Act changes the process for pay and benefit decisions covering Postal Service supervisory, managerial, and postmaster personnel. At least 60 days before a USPS pay decision expires, USPS must give the supervisors organization and the postmasters organization a written proposal for changes in pay policies, pay schedules, and fringe-benefit programs. USPS must also provide a written proposal within 60 days after reaching a collective bargaining agreement with a postal bargaining representative if that agreement affects supervisor, manager, or postmaster pay or benefits, including supervisory differentials. The parties must try to resolve differences through the existing section 1004 procedures, and the panel must issue a final determination within 15 days after making recommendations and considering input. That final determination is binding on USPS, the supervisors organization, and the postmasters organization.
Who Benefits and How
Postal supervisors, postal managers, postmasters, the USPS supervisors organization, and the USPS postmasters organization benefit from earlier written proposals, a process tied to bargaining-agreement effects, and a binding final panel determination.
Who Bears the Burden and How
USPS, postal pay administrators, the review panel, postal bargaining representatives, and federal postal ratepayers bear process and fiscal burdens from preparing proposals, responding to employee-organization input, and implementing binding pay and fringe-benefit determinations.
Key Provisions
- Requires USPS to provide written pay and fringe-benefit proposals at least 60 days before covered pay decisions expire.
- Requires USPS to issue new proposals within 60 days after collective bargaining agreements affect supervisor, manager, or postmaster pay matters.
- Directs USPS and the supervisory and postmaster organizations to resolve differences through section 1004 procedures.
- Provides that the panel's final determination on pay policies, schedules, and fringe benefits is binding.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires USPS to give supervisory and postmaster organizations written pay and fringe-benefit proposals before pay decisions expire and after relevant collective-bargaining agreements, and makes the final panel determination on pay policies, schedules, and fringe benefits binding on USPS and the two organizations.
Key Policy Areas
Labor, Postal Service, Federal Workforce
Primary Purpose
Requires USPS to give supervisory and postmaster organizations written pay and fringe-benefit proposals before pay decisions expire and after relevant collective-bargaining agreements, and makes the final panel determination on pay policies, schedules, and fringe benefits binding on USPS and the two organizations.
Policy Domains
Bill-wide scope
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Postal supervisors
- Postal managers
- Postmasters
- USPS supervisors organization
- USPS postmasters organization
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- U.S. Postal Service
- Postal pay administrators
- Review panel
- Postal bargaining representatives
- Postal ratepayers
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced in House
Mr. Walkinshaw (for himself and Mr. Bost) introduced the following …
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "USPS"
- → U.S. Postal Service
- "primary_beneficiaries"
- → Postal supervisors, Postal managers, Postmasters, USPS supervisors organization, USPS postmasters organization
- "primary_burden_bearers"
- → U.S. Postal Service, Postal pay administrators, Review panel, Postal bargaining representatives, Postal ratepayers
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