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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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
April 20, 2009
Owners of small businesses, workers, and other concerned citizens continue to speak out at protests and at public meetings staged by the Postal Service to “share initial results” of Area Mail Processing studies.
At one of the noisier of such gatherings, several business owners and public officials in Wilkes-Barre disagreed sharply with the USPS [...]
April 16, 2009
Burrus Update #05-09, April 15, 2009
In response to declining mail volume and deteriorating financial circumstances, the Postal Service has announced plans for new price incentives for major mailers.
One proposal, which is designed to increase volume during the time of year when mail volume is typically lowest, is being called a “Summer Sale.” The [...]
Support Growing for H.R. 22
APWU Asks Members to Contact Congress
(04/06/09) Legislation that would provide the Postal Service temporary relief from a crushing financial crisis is gaining wide support in Congress. More than half of the members of the House of Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of H.R. 22, which would modify a provision of the [...]
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