Everett, WA – The post office delivers through rain, sleet and snow, but an Everett couple said what their mailman brought to their door is not what they expected. Video will load below. Read more.
The postmaster of Lead-Deadwood, SD, Laura Uhrig, has determined that injuries sustained by her letter carriers in Lead and Deadwood is reason enough to change over 700 of her postal customers delivery modes to cluster boxes. Will this move start a trend by USPS across the nation? If postal employees sustaining injuries is found to […]
“Postal inspectors said he bought gift cards, merchandise, stamps, computers, perfume, cologne with the compromised account information. In fact, he bought 80 rolls of stamps worth $3,500 and admitted he was going to sell them half – price to consumers.” Video will load below. Read more.
Career employees represented by the APWU will receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of $686 per year beginning with paychecks dated Sept. 26, in accordance with the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement. The raise is the result of an increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W). The 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement provides for COLAs based on increases […]
09/16/2014 – The four postal unions are standing together at the national, state and local level to fight the Postmaster General’s plans to again slash the mail processing network, beginning in January. Eighty-two facilities are slated for closure, and service will be degraded further. Thanks in large part to the efforts of postal workers across the country, […]
09/15/2014 – The National Executive Board selected Orlando, FL, as the site of the 2016 National Convention, Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell has announced. The board vote took place on Sept. 10. “We heard presentations from hotels in several cities,” Powell said. “One of our goals was to select a site that would help keep expenses down for locals, […]
The APWU and USPS signed a major settlement on July 9 that resolved a long-standing dispute over custodial staffing and resulted in the conversion to career of all Maintenance Craft Postal Support Employees. It was not an agreement we entered into lightly. The agreement stipulates that the MS-47 Handbook-Transmittal Letter 5, which governs custodial work […]
09/15/2014 – The hard work of the APWU membership is paying off. One hundred sixty members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the leaders of the House Appropriations Committee on Sept. 11 urging them to stop devastating cuts to the Postal Service. The group appealed to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers […]
9/11/14 – If Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe thought his speech to a group of business mailers in Salt Lake City on Sept. 10 was going to be a quiet, uneventful affair, he was mistaken. A coalition of unions and postal customers showed up outside the Grand America Hotel, the site of the speech, to protest […]