September 01, 2010
Contract Negotiations Begin Between U.S. Postal Service and American Postal Workers Union
Negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement between the U.S. Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union began Sept. 1. The current contract expires Nov. 20, 2010.
“Every contract negotiation brings special challenges, and this will be no different,” APWU President William [...]
September 1, 2010 | Posted in
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This is a summary of Regular Panel Arbitrator Andres M. Strongin in case H06T-1H-C-08255189 regarding the Postal Service denial of an employee’s request for voluntary transfer. The arbitrator sustained the Union’s grievance; he ruled the Postal Service violated grievant’s right to request a transfer under Article 12.6 of the National Agreement and the Memorandum of [...]
July 28, 2010 | Posted in
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Major Mailers Go Ballistic Over Rate Increase
Attempt to Shift the Burden to Postal Employees
Burrus Update 10-2010, July 9, 2010
The Postal Service has filed a request to increase postage rates effective Jan. 2, 2011, and is proposing to raise the price of first-class, single-piece letters from 44 cents to 46 cents. Increases for other mail classes [...]
July 9, 2010 | Posted in
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This has been an extremely busy year, as we respond to the postal policies and decisions triggered by the recent decline in mail volume.
Despite a modest improvement in the economy, advertising mail has not yet rebounded. Coupled with the diversion to electronic messages, the recession has reduced mail volume to 1994 levels.
The geniuses who supported [...]
July 8, 2010 | Posted in
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APWU Web News Article 050-2010, June 3, 2010
Postal employees and customers are approaching an important milestone in the fight to save Saturday service, as a House resolution supporting six-day mail delivery continues to gain momentum.
Close to 200 U.S. Representatives have signed on to co-sponsor House Resolution 173, which says “the U.S. Postal Service should take [...]
June 3, 2010 | Posted in
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APWU Web News Article 042-2010, May 11, 2010
Testifying at a Las Vegas field hearing, APWU Western Region Coordinator Omar Gonzalez urged the Postal Regulatory Commission to reject the USPS proposal to end Saturday delivery. The plan will “hasten the call for elimination of the private express statutes and legal monopolies, which ensure quality postal services [...]
May 11, 2010 | Posted in
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AMERICAN POSTAL WORKER’S UNION (APWU) OFFICER CHARGED
WITH EMBEZZLEMENT OF UNION FUNDS AND WIRE FRAUD
(HOUSTON) – The former Southern Region Coordinator of the American Postal Worker’s Union (APWU) has been charged with embezzlement of union funds and wire fraud, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. The two count indictment was returned on Wednesday, March [...]
OIG Workers Compensation ‘Fraud’ Campaign
Who’s scamming who?
The USPS Office of Inspector General recently launched a “Workers’ Compensation Fraud Campaign.” In typical OIG fashion, one of its strategies involves demonizing injured workers by having an actor posing as a postal employee cheerfully brag about cheating the Workers’ Comp program.
No one, of course, should be permitted to [...]
December 31, 2009 | Posted in
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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 [...]
July 16, 2009 | Posted in
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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 [...]
June 26, 2009 | Posted in
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