Video: Postal worker speaks out on controversial NYPD arrest caught on video

Video: Postal worker speaks out on controversial NYPD arrest caught on video

The New York Police Department is investigating alleged disorderly conduct after the controversial arrest of a postal worker while he delivered packages on his route, reports CBS News correspondent DeMarco Morgan. Cellphone video captured the plainclothes NYPD officers approaching 27-year-old Glen Grays. The postal worker was in the middle of his shift on St. Patrick’s Day. […]

APWU: District Court Orders Clarification On Maintenance Craft Staffing at BMCs

APWU: District Court Orders Clarification On Maintenance Craft Staffing at BMCs

03/24/2016 – The Postal Service sidestepped a fight in federal court on March 16 over enforcement of an Oct. 19, 2015, arbitration award on staffing at Bulk Mail Centers (BMCs).  After the USPS filed a “consent motion,” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered interpretation of the award to be returned to Arbitrator Ira F. Jaffe. The APWU filed […]

APWU: Contract Update

APWU: Contract Update

Hearings in the arbitration for a new contract continued in March, with testimony on the union’s economic package. Union economist Kathryn Kobe reviewed a series of graphs and charts illustrating the current state of the workforce and supporting APWU proposals for wage increases, retaining cost-of-living allowances (COLAs), and other monetary matters. Other witnesses offered supporting […]

APWU: Consolidations in ‘Deferred Status’

APWU: Consolidations in ‘Deferred Status’

03/24/2016 – Postal workers and postal customers got some good news recently: The Deputy Postmaster General notified a member of Congress that “consolidation activities remain in a deferred status.” A one-year moratorium on more than 70 plant consolidations and closures was set to expire in April. Management announced the deferral in response to an outcry from postal […]

Video: NYPD to Review Confrontation Involving Mailman, Cops

Video: NYPD to Review Confrontation Involving Mailman, Cops

The NYPD said it will review an incident in which four plainclothes officers and a lieutenant handcuffed a postal worker who was out driving his mail truck. The March 17 confrontation involving postal worker Glenn Grays was captured on cellphone videos that have been widely shared. The videos show the officers telling Grays to stop […]