Maintenance Craft Wins $8.64 Million Remedy for Improper Subcontracting

Maintenance Craft Wins $8.64 Million Remedy for Improper Subcontracting

12/14/2014 – Arbitrator Shyam Das has ordered the Postal Service to pay Maintenance Craft employees $8.64 million for improperly subcontracting work that could have been performed by bargaining unit employees, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced. The decision, issued on Dec. 11, concludes four rounds of hearings on management’s decision to subcontract the wiring of more than […]

Postal Workers: Driving Communications this Holiday and Year-Round

Postal Workers: Driving Communications this Holiday and Year-Round

NALC – 12.11.14 – The Postal Service remains vital to the American economy and to American society. Six-days a week, year-round, homes and businesses in every American town, city and county depend on the Postal Service. And the holiday season is no different. This holiday season, U.S. employees will be working seven days a week […]

Philadelphia City Council Adopts ‘Stop Staples’ Resolution

Philadelphia City Council Adopts ‘Stop Staples’ Resolution

APWU – 12.12.14 – The Philadelphia City Council voted unanimously on Dec. 11 to adopt a resolution to support the APWU’s efforts “to protect living-wage jobs and its insistence on the highest possible standards of customer services, opposes efforts to privatize postal operations, and calls upon Philadelphians to consider this issue when deciding whether to […]

NLRB Charges Postal Service with Illegal Surveillance of Staples Protests

NLRB Charges Postal Service with Illegal Surveillance of Staples Protests

12/12/2014 – APWU The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has charged the USPS with illegally spying on postal employees while they protested outside a Staples store in Atlanta on March 4 and 9, 2014. “Respondent has been interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed” in Section 7 of the National Labor […]

Video: SoCal Mail Thefts Linked to Organized Crime

Video: SoCal Mail Thefts Linked to Organized Crime

12.11.14 – U.S. postal inspectors are warning people around Southern California about an increase in mail thefts this holiday season. In some cases, the thieves are likely linked to organized crime, authorities say. “Organizations that are doing it now are those old gangs that have been around for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years,” said […]

Video: The Secret Santa – New holiday film features Operation Santa

Video: The Secret Santa – New holiday film features Operation Santa

  The Postal Service’s Operation Santa program is featured in “The Secret Santa,” a cable movie that will debut this weekend. The film follows the trail of a mystery figure associated with a string of Christmas “miracles” across the nation. It includes first-person accounts and extraordinary home video of his exploits that simply cannot be explained — […]