AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS U. v. U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

No. 81-2174.

707 F.2d 548 (1983)

AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION, AFL-CIO, Appellants, Wilma M. Carter, et al. v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darryl J. Anderson, with whom Anton G. Hajjar, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellants. Thomas F. Bianco, Rockville, Md., also entered an appearance for appellants.

Rebecca L. Ross, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., and Royce C. Lamberth and R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellees. Kenneth M. Raisler, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., also entered an appearance for appellees.

Before TAMM and SCALIA, Circuit Judges, and OLIVER GASCH, U.S. Senior District Judge for the District of Columbia.


Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge TAMM.

TAMM, Circuit Judge:

In late 1978 the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) learned that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), at the behest of the United States Postal Service (USPS), had changed the method by which it calculates the civil service retirement benefits of certain postal workers retiring after February 11, 1978. This change substantially reduced the expected annuities of some 113,000 future...

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