Comments on: APWU PUBLICIZES LIST OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES THAT REFUSE TO JOIN THE UNION

By: JOKER

JOKER — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:27:45 +0000

The union sold us all down the pike by allowing management to change PTF’s to NFT’s. And also allow the hiring of PSE’s they are doing more work. The high level union officicials are saving themselves until they retire, look at all thier ages.

They do not care about the dues paying members, we are nothing to them. They want us to take it and shut up. I am getting out of the union as soon as my anninversary date is here. That is the only way they will give us what we need.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:40:57 +0000

I was a supervisor for 20 years and I always supported the rights of the unions and I was a member while in the craft. They do protect workers rights and bargain for better wage and working conditions. Without them conditions would be intolerable. I also feel in some cases they abuse their authority as much as management can. Frivolous grievances cost money and I found most grievances were filed by the same individuals.

By: rich

rich — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:33:58 +0000

and another thing bargaining unit employees are down 20% in the last 5 years
while management positions are up 28% so less emplyoees but more managers what a croc/ big wigs get fat / while the working stiffs get the shaft

By: rich

rich — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:27:49 +0000

what are current unions doing for career employees absolutely nothing
my friend who was a clerk for 16 years was excessed to the mailhandler craft and lost all his seniority he went from a senority date of 1993 to a seniority date of 2008 and what did the union do they said management can do that and now at the facilitie i work in they are excessing over 150 clerks to who knows where because they have not decided to grace us with that knowledgea and in the meantime they are still hiring postal support employees (pse) and also hiring casuals and about those pse emplyoees management is paying for thier healthcare but the new employees must join the apwu union to get the free health care because you can only get the insurance if you are a union member
hows that for looking out for career emplyees only thing apwu worried about is getting their union dues

By: kelly

kelly — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:18:27 +0000

Unions are full of thugs and pigs.

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:21:54 +0000

The union needs to step into the 21st century. No longer can the PO afford to support lazy do-nothings. We have 3 in our office alone that should’ve been gone a long time ago. Two don’t want to accept the fact that we no longer carry 2-3 times the number of staff we need, the ridiculous over-staffing of PTF’s is history and, as a result, these two’s job descriptions have been expanded to cover closer to 6 hrs work a day instead of 4. They refuse to do more than they’ve done in the past and spend at least 4hrs ambling around doing nothing. The third is just a problem child… we are not allowed cell phones on the floor or at the window but he has his and is texting continually. He is a window clerk and he refuses to do anything but help customers – when he’s not ignoring them to text. He won’t do second notices, help out in the back…nothing. If management says anything to him about anything, he files an EEO saying they are picking on him because he is black. He was AWOL for a month and still has his job…that’s the union for you. The man has been fired at least TWICE, the union got him his job back with the only concession being he had to transfer to another office, he should be unemployed right now, not disrupting another office.
I used to belong to the union but quit after changing offices… why? NO representation for double the dues of the rest of the state. And the fact that they keep protecting those who should be gone was getting really old. I’m a PTF, I don’t mind working but I don’t appreciate being forced to work overtime to do what regulars were told to do and didn’t – and not because they were busy, they were ambling around doing nothing, they just didn’t want to do it.

Trim the fat, cut the slackers, cut management/administrative by at least 50% and reduce their wages to something more in line with their responsibilities… a $100K a year for a postmaster is ridiculous in an office of less than 50-100 people.

By: slota

slota — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:24:57 +0000

The union is a dinosaur. Fast becoming a memory forced into the grave by the fatted calves suckling at it. The USPS is fated to follow only due to bad mgnt. Both taking all they can get out of us and the USPS till the end. Yes your job is in jeopardy with or without the union. Get out of the union, SAVE the money.

By: Trident

Trident — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:50:12 +0000

Hi. When the Union starts caring more for injured workers, besides pretending to care for them, then I would have better respect for them. I like how USPS kicks the injured worker to the curb and when they get hurt, all the union cares about is getting them back to work only a few hours of less than 20 hours a week so the person who is screwed can keep paying their dues @ $23 bi-weekly. Then if the screwed injured workers tries to get a hardship, they are told no by the union that they cannot get out the union because they have to wait like everyone else to cancel their memberships, 10 day window time which is very specific and they will not except cancelation a day before, day after and w/o being certified. You should see how union reps have such hatred towards those non-paying hardship injured workers who are screwed by the union and because they are not paying them more $$$ to pay them to screw them ever more, even if they mess/screw them over time and time again. My experience is that they are two faced, have one face and then another. Union reps care more about what they want, and do what they can to get what they want, so they can continue taking their fun trips, get their extra bonus money, be on ego trips, and so on.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:57:27 +0000

All offices are not the same as far as union representation. It’s not an easy job being union stewards because it takes a lot of time to research and come up with a great solid case for the employee no matter what they do. Many many times it’s the screw up of mgmt not researching how to give the discipline correctly exact as the jcam stipulates or varied other things mgmt does wrong. If your steward doesn’t catch the smallest of details or if your union steward doesn’t know jcam in and out and how to catch mgmt’s screw ups then I hate to say that office might not have the best representation, but I thought you could go outside of the specific office worked at and get better representation? It’s so true also that the lazy idiots get a free pass and then do it again but the representation has to be for them also so that the good employees don’t get fired etc for messing up once or twice etc. My husband has been steward for many years and has saved many jobs and helped good people and that is because he is very passionate about them and their families.

By: anti union

anti union — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:44:01 +0000

I am and have been a union member for more than 25 years. In May of 2010 I was discharged for taking FMLA approved leave. Between 2008, and 2010 I have been unfairly disciplined with APWU refusing to represent and my cases being lost because of untimely filings. Right now I have had my greivence for terminatation cancelled three times. The third time it was cancelled was because management hadn’t decided my fourteen day suspension and they can’t decide my termination until they do my fourteen which has been refused to grieve and arbitration by management since June of 2009. Union President states management sets up the dates for arbitration and they have the right to cancel. I feel if that is the case than what do I have them there to fight for me for, if management will not agree to arbitration. I was not given an F8 and is still considered employed so I can’t get my Thrift, and disability claims I still work for the post office. I am being made to financially distruct while they decide whether to arbitrate and union is sitting on their butts