Louis J. Abbruzzese v. William P. Berzak and Postmaster General Elmer T. Classen and United States of America

OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

When Congress adopted the Postal Reorganization Act, 1 it provided two types of procedures for resolving labor disputes be tween the United States Postal Service (USPS) and its employees. Veterans, also known as preference eligible employees, 2 were given the choice of appealing an adverse decision to the Civil Service Commission or invoking those procedures found in the applicable collective bargaining agreement. 3 Non-preference eligible employees, on the other hand, were given recourse only to the process found in their contract. 4

Louis Abbruzzese,…