APWU: March 3, 2014 In a complaint issued Feb. 25, Region 5 of the National Labor Relations Board found merit in APWU charges that the Postal Service has improperly refused to provide the union with information about its agreement with Staples. [NLRB decision-PDF] The pilot program has placed postal counters in 82 Staples stores — […]
NALC President Fredric Rolando has appointed Lew Drass of Huntsville, AL Branch 462 as national vice president and Brian Renfroe of Hattiesburg, MS Branch 938 as national director of city delivery. Drass has served as director of city delivery since his election to that spot by the 67th Biennial Convention in Anaheim in 2010. In […]
(WZZM) — The U.S. Postal Service is seeing an uptick in business, but not necessarily in a way it wants. California drug dealers are using Priority Mail and Express Mail to send narcotics to Michigan. In separate incidents this week, cocaine and marijuana were mailed to people in Muskegon and Wyoming. Read More
Arbitrator Dennis R. Nolan has ruled that APWU members holding Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) assignments may not be excessed into full-time positions in the Letter Carrier Craft if they don’t meet the definition of full-time employees specified in the Postal Service’s contract with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC). In a decision [PDF] issued Feb. […]
Many APWU members have asked, “What makes the Staples program so important? How is it different from the other programs that outsource postal retail functions – the grocery stores that sell stamps and the Village Post Offices in hardware stores and gas stations in small towns?” “The difference is the scale,” said Clerk Craft Director […]
APWU – Feb. 27, 2014 The USPS has declared war on custodial staffing — again — reports Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer. Management notified the APWU on Jan. 22 of an attempt to modify the MS-47 Handbook, which establishes guidelines for housekeeping and determines the number of custodians that will be assigned to facilities. National […]
WASHINGTON (WUSA) Feb. 26, 2014 — A mail carrier beaten and robbed while on his Northeast D.C. mail route on Tuesday is out of the hospital. Read More
from NAPUS Part-Time Postmasters – PTPMs – (RSC F) are eligible for the 1% increase. Those who have saved rate salary-protection will receive a lump-sum payment to be included their February 28, 2014 paychecks. This will apply to many PTPMs impacted by POStPlan. Those who do not have such salary protection should have received the […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — United States Post Office officials are refusing to answer questions about two more employees with criminal convictions in their pasts. Eyewitness News first began questioning hiring practices at USPS in December 2013 after Channel 9 uncovered that a woman convicted of multiple criminal charges, including fraud, had been hired as the postmaster […]
BUTLER, Pa. — Butler City police are asking for the public’s help identifying the driver wanted in connection with a hit-and-run accident Saturday morning. Authorities said a postal worker was hit at the intersection of Spang and Walker avenues while delivering mail just before 10 a.m. Saturday. Read More