Senator Urges Postmaster General to Honor Senate Bill’s Provision Hold off on Montana Shutdowns
(Washington, D.C.) – Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus blasts the Postmaster General today for plans to shut down the Kalispell area mail processing facility. Baucus is specifically calling out the United States Postal Service for ignoring his provisions in Postal Reform [...]
May 22, 2012 | Posted in
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May 21, 2012
The Postal Service’s announcement last Thursday regarding its modified, two-phase plan to consolidate its mail processing network, coupled with its May 9 POStPlan to keep rural post offices open (but with limited operating hours), is likely to move the House of Representatives closer to bringing postal legislation to the floor some time [...]
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The postmaster general announced on Thursday, May 17, that he would move forward with the closing of hundreds of mail-processing plants. That followed his announcement on Wednesday, May 9, that rather than proceed with post office closings he would sharply reduce hours in thousands of rural post offices.
In response to the latest announcement, NALC President [...]
May 21, 2012 | Posted in
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APWU Web News Article 61-2012, May 21, 2012
The APWU and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) are asking their locals and state organizations to meet with their U.S. representatives at their district offices during the Memorial Day congressional recess, May 21 to May 29, to urge them to act now to save the Postal [...]
May 21, 2012 | Posted in
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The possibility that the House of Representatives could consider H.R. 2309 towards the end of June or beginning of July has generated renewed interest in the bill, and, how the House Leadership will deal with the controversy relating to a number of its provisions. The week’s eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin seeks to put into [...]
May 20, 2012 | Posted in
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May 18, 2012
This morning, Postal Service headquarters released a list of Post Offices that will be upgraded under the new Post Office Structure Plan (POStPlan.) More than 4,600 lower level offices will be upgraded to EAS 18 offices. The list also includes Level 51 -53 offices that will be upgraded to career 6 hour offices. [...]
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May 17 2012
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service and co-author of the 21st Century Postal Service Act, released the following statement reacting to the Postmaster General’s announcement that the Postal Service would begin closing select mail processing centers in an effort to save approximately [...]
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
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Postal Service Moves Ahead with Modified Network Consolidation Plan
9-Month Implementation; $1.2 Billion in Cost Reductions
May 17, 2012
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today announced plans to move ahead with a modified plan to consolidate its network of 461 mail processing locations in phases. The first phase of activities will result in up to 140 consolidations [...]
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The Postal Service’s announcement that there are no immediate plans to offer incentives or VERA to EAS employees will be received by some as a mixed message. We are aware that some EAS employees have been waiting for some time to take advantage of an incentive. On the other hand, there are other EAS employees [...]
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APWU News Bulletin 14-2012
May 17, 2012
The House of Representatives voted for a 5 percent cut in postal and federal workers’ pay on May 10 by approving an increase in employees’ pension contributions. Republican members of the House provided all 218 votes in favor of the measure, while 183 Democrats and 16 Republicans opposed it.
The 2012 [...]
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