APWU President Dimondstein: ‘Don’t Believe the Type’ “Headlines across the country are shouting that the USPS lost billions of dollars again this year, but that’s a fallacy,” APWU President Mark Dimondstein said after the USPS released financial information for fiscal year 2013. “If it weren’t for the congressional mandate to pre-fund health benefits for future […]
On Sunday, letter carriers like Princeton, NJ Branch 268 member Josef Thompson began delivering Parcel Select packages in more than 900 ZIP codes nationwide as part of a test involving Sunday delivery of packages from a major online retailer. There is unlimited potential for growth in Sunday and same-day package delivery, which increases revenue for […]
(This article appears in the November-December 2013 edition of The American Postal Worker.) Unlike “contract enforcement,” which is the job of all good union representatives, “contracting enforcement” refers specifically our efforts to stop management from assigning our work to non-postal employees. Our ability to do that received a significant boost recently from a ruling by […]
Nov. 9, 2013—Pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding Re: Residual Vacancies—City Letter Carrier Craft (M-01824), the first wave of city carrier assistant (CCA) conversions to full-time career status took place Nov. 2. While the exact number of conversions that took place on Nov. 2 has not yet been finalized, NALC estimates that somewhere between 1,500 […]
At Swearing-In Ceremony:Dimondstein Issues Call For a ‘Grand Alliance’ In an impassioned speech before more than 1,000 union members, the newly-elected president of the American Postal Workers Union, Mark Dimondstein, issued a call for a “grand alliance” to save the USPS as a public postal service and to protect postal jobs. “Writing to Congress is […]
The cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for both Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) benefits will be 1.5 percent in 2014, based on the Oct. 30 release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September. Although the release of the September CPI was delayed by the 16-day federal government shut-down, the COLA […]
Today, November 4, 2013, APWU corrected their original article (below) with the following correction: Dues for PSEs will be increased by 86 cents per pay period, with 57 cents going to locals and states and 29 cents going to the national union. Updated pay scales were included in the November-December edition of The American Postal […]
Union Wins Call Center Pay Case Clerks to Be Upgraded Two Levels In a decision issued Oct. 28 [PDF], Arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg ruled that the USPS must upgrade all Customer Care Agents two levels and must make them whole for all pay and benefits they lost as a result of the improper ranking of […]
The APWU will make a $15,000 donation to the National Post Office Collaborate, an organization dedicated to fighting the sale of historic post offices, APWU President Cliff Guffey has announced. The Collaborate, which grew out of the fight to save the Berkeley CA post office, plans to mount legal challenges to the sale of hundreds […]
M-01826 Memorandum of Understanding – Re: Sunday Delivery—City Carrier Assistant Staffing Oct. 23, 2013—In a memorandum of understanding (M-01826) dated Oct. 22, 2013 regarding city carrier assistant (CCA) staffing, the NALC and the Postal Service agreed that city carrier assistants who served as city carrier temporary employees (TEs) directly before their initial CCA appointment will […]