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About the Central Region Coordinator's Office

The Central Region Coordinator has jurisdictional responsibility for organizing the union's 13 central states.

The coordinator has oversight of the grievance processing beyond Step 3, including interacting with the Western, Great Lakes, and Eastern Area Grievance Processing Centers to manage the arbitration scheduling pursuant to Article 15 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The coordinator also serves as a troubleshooter for locals that want intervention with the Area on issues that directly impact them. The coordinator schedules and attends Area-level Labor/Management meetings, and occasionally attends District-level meetings.

The coordinator receives Impact Statements from the USPS when excessing outside an installation is anticipated in the region, and receives information regarding the withholding of job vacancies. The coordinator shares the information with the affected locals and state organizations and organizes the union's response.

The coordinator meets with her counterparts in the Area on other issues such as deployment of automation, immediate safety issues, and disputes over implementation of Article 12, Joint Contract Interpretation Training, negotiating memoranda of understanding on a variety of issues, and handles other situations that arise on a daily basis.

The Central Region Office serves APWU members in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. There are four other regional coordinators: Liz Powell, Omar Gonzalez, Mike Gallagher, and William E. Sullivan.

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