US Postal Service has agreed to pay USD6.5 million in back wages ending wage dispute

The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to pay roughly $6.5 million in back wages to nearly 900 pilots, co-pilots and flight engineers, ending a 10-year-old wage dispute, the Labor Department announced Monday.

The affected employees worked under various contracts and subcontracts to transport mail by air between January 1996 and August 2001, the department said. The agreement emerged from a dispute over the calculation of wages for flight crew employees.

The contractors and subcontractors affected by Monday’s agreement with the Postal Service are: Ryan International Airlines; Express One International Inc.; and Evergreen International Airlines Inc., the department said.

“In keeping with this administration’s commitment to ensuring that workers receive all the wages they have earned, the department has finally reached an agreement settling a decade-old dispute,” said Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. “Back wages of $6.5 million will now be paid to the nearly 900 affected workers.”