APWU Web News Article 001-2011, Jan. 3, 2011
APWU President Cliff Guffey has summoned the union’s Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee to Washington, DC for an update on contract negotiations, but he was quick to point out that no tentative agreement has been reached and none appears imminent.
“I am increasingly frustrated by the lack of progress in contract talks,” Guffey said. The Collective Bargaining Agreement, which was set to expire on Nov. 20, 2010, has been extended, and numerous meetings and discussions have been held since then, the union president noted.
“However, six weeks later, management negotiators seem unwilling to make the commitment necessary to reach a negotiated settlement,” he said.
The union president and other members of the APWU negotiating team plan to update members of the Rank and File Committee on the status of negotiations on Jan. 4. The committee is expected to remain in Washington through Jan. 6.
In accordance with the APWU Constitution, each member of the union’s National Executive Board names one person to the committee; a 14th member, appointed by the president, is a representative from the APWU Deaf/Hard of Hearing Task Force. The committee provides input to the union’s National Negotiating Team, and any tentative agreement between the union and management must be approved by a majority of the committee before it can be submitted to APWU members for a ratification vote.
So hey, bostontom, I suppose there is no possibility whatsoever that there is no more money to support your bloated benefit entitlement agenda of unionized government workers. You should feel proud that you and your cronies are part of the government “bleed” that HAS to stop before this country can move on to better times. Take your blood-sucking, country-killing, union thuggery to a country that wants it. You’re no longer wanted here, and your “brotherhood” needs to find somewhere else to infest. Bye-bye, your days are numbered.
And this should surprise who? The P.O. has no interest in negotiating a Contract. It is in their best interest to cry poor to the arbitrators. And hope they will show mercy. After all it is us rank and file that is raping the P.O. Forget about all the rank file that have retired, and the mail still moving. It is how an increase in the headquarters Fat Cats that is saving the P.O. My Brothers in solidarity, I wish you nothing but the best in dealing with these hipocrites.