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(07/14/09) In response to a letter from the Postal Service stating that the APWU’s FMLA forms are not equivalent to the Department of Labor’s FMLA forms, the union has written the Postal Service clarifying our position on the use of the forms. Some managers have interpreted the USPS’s comments to mean that the APWU’s FMLA [...]
June 25, 2009
Sharon Young, a Sales and Service Associate at the Norristown Post Office, has been issued a Letter of Suspension following an incident with a customer who complained that Ms. Young did not assist her with filling out more than 100 customs forms for parcels the customer was mailing to Japan.
All Sales and Service [...]
In response to the financial crisis facing the Postal Service due to the severe national recession and the impact of electronic substitution, postal management has launched an internal study on the feasibility of eliminating Saturday delivery across the United States
NALC received a letter dated June 11 from the Postal Service requesting the union’s input on [...]
APWU’s President Burrus states that in March he sent letters to non-APWU members requesting that they join the union. The mailing included a postage-paid return envelope along with an APWU membership application.
Burrus noted that about 1000 postal employees chose to join the union, but many others chose to use the postage-paid envelope to express their negative [...]
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May 11, 2009
WASHINGTON – The head of the National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) said today that frequent postage rate increases like the one today that boosted a first-class stamp to 44 cents – while necessary for the U.S. Postal Service to function effectively this year – can and should be avoided in [...]
NALC President William H. Young surprised many in attendance by announcing that he plans to retire soon – probably before the end of the year – at which time under the Constitution he will turn the reins of the union over to Executive Vice President Fred Rolando.
“I have served as a full-time officer for this [...]
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San Francisco – A USPS letter carrier was awarded injunctive relief, compensatory damages and attorney’s fees as a result of a lawsuit finding discrimination against a disability. In the wake of the decision, San Francisco NALC Union #214 has requested termination of the [...]
APWU Nurses Contract
Arbitrator Grants Postal Nurses Raises, Job Security
APWU Web News Article #052-09, April 30, 2009
An arbitration panel finalized a five-year contract for postal nurses on April 28 — the first since the National Postal Professional Nurses merged with the APWU. The ruling [PDF] came more than 20 months after the nurses’ independent Collective [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has placed on the Senate calendar legislation that would give retirement credit for unused sick leave to postal and federal employees enrolled in the Federal Employees’ Retirement System (FERS). The legislation is part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (H.R. 1256), which passed the House of [...]
April 23, 2009
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Legislation that is desperately needed to save the Postal Service from a crushing financial crisis continues to garner support in the House of Representatives.
As of April 23, 274 members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors of H.R. 22 [PDF], which would modify a provision of the 2006 postal “reform” law that drains [...]
Postal Service Updates Station and Branch Consolidation Initiative
Postal Service Price List Effective January 4, 2010
Postal Financial Challenges Continue, with Relatively Limited Results from Recent Revenue-Generation Efforts
PMG To Postal Customers
Postmasters Vote Not to Support VOE Survey
Postal ELM Revision Rescinded: Limited Duty and Rehabilitation Assignments
Postal Service S. 1507 Update