NPMHU – 5/6/19 – As previously announced, the Update MOU on RI-399 that was signed by the NPMHU, the APWU, and the Postal Service in June 2018 included a monetary payment to individual Mail Handlers. Here are the details, except for the payment date, which is still to be determined. In order to be eligible […]
Memphis, TN – 5/6/19 – After a three-day jury trial, a Memphis man was found guilty for obstruction of mail. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty verdict today. According to information presented in court, in 2015, Braylon Butler, 25, worked at the FedEx Hub as a box […]
Washington, D.C. – 5/2/19 – Today, Representatives Derek Kilmer (D-WA) and Tom Cole (R-OK) introduced the Federal Retirement Fairness Act. This bill ensures that federal employees who started their careers as temporary workers – meaning they did not have the ability to make retirement contributions – are granted the opportunity to make catch-up retirement contributions […]
Alexandria, Va. (April 30, 2019) – As the debate on reforms to the United States Postal Service (USPS) continues, NARFE shared concerns over past and current proposals targeting the health benefits of postal service retirees. In a letter to the leadership and members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform regarding today’s hearing on the financial path […]
CHICAGO (WLS) — The reward money offered for information in the case of a pregnant postal worker who went missing from the South Side in the fall grew on Sunday, two weeks after she was due to give birth. Kierra Coles, 27, would have given birth April 23. Instead of celebrating an addition to the family, […]
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn — A family is grieving after a father of three was struck and killed by a U.S. Postal Service truck in Brooklyn Friday evening. Family told PIX11 News that 52-year-old Charles McClean was leaving a corner store Friday when the USPS truck began to accelerate, struck McClean and dragged his body, according to […]
Specific questions regarding the Food Drive should be directed to NALC Director of Community Services at 202-662-2489 Source: NALC
The following message is from Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan: USPS News Link – May 03, 2019 – The nation will mark Public Service Recognition Week from May 5-11 this year. First celebrated 35 years ago in 1985, the first full week in May is when cities, counties, states, federal agencies and service organizations across the United […]
April 30, 2019, a factfinding panel commissioned by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service issued its Report and Recommendations in response to NAPS’s challenge to the Postal Service’s pay plan for postal managers and supervisors covering fiscal years 2016-19. Click here for the NAPS Newsbreak. Click here for the Final Factfinding Report.
APWU News – 05/03/2019 – The APWU is continuing to move forward towards interest arbitration. Preparation of hearing presentations, evidence, and witnesses is occurring every day. The craft directors and their assistant directors are working together with the lead negotiator, President Mark Dimondstein, and the negotiation’s chief spokesperson, Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman, on the […]