California Postal Vehicle Service employees who have been identified as impacted by the USPS decision to subcontract PVS operations in the state and who have indicated their intent to accept the USPS Voluntary Early Retirement offer now have until Jan. 31, 2013, to revoke their decision. The extension of the deadline is the result of […]
Incentive offer deadline APWU employees face decision Full-time career employees in the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) bargaining units have until Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, at 8:30 p.m. EST to take advantage of their special incentive offer. Part-time employees and non-traditional, full-time employees with schedules less than 40 hours per week have until Jan. 4, […]
The APWU is expanding a pilot program for the Electronic Grievance System (EGS), APWU Director of Industrial Relations Mike Morris has announced. Two hundred APWU locals are currently participating in the program, which is the result of an August agreement with the USPS. “We are expanding the pilot to allow additional locals to participate through […]
The APWU and a broad coalition of postal and government employee organizations is urging Congress not to extract additional budget savings from the pockets of pubic workers and retirees as it attempts to avoid an impasse over “fiscal cliff” issues. “The federal workforce already has borne the burden of substantial budget savings over the past […]
OPM’s decision is misleading on two counts. The current near-record low interest rates produce a misleading figure that is likely to change; beyond that, OPM’s use of generic assumptions on wages and mortality (as opposed to ones applicable to postal employees) badly skews the results. Simply using accurate data going in would produce a surplus […]
Statement from Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers: Today’s report makes clear that the financial crisis at the Postal Service is largely political in nature—and that the Postal Service is actually returning to health in operational terms as the economy improves. The deficit from postal operations declined from $4.9 billion in […]
On Thursday, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), the retiring chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, called a bipartisan meeting of House and Senate leaders to discuss his alarming idea to allow the U.S. Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery service but retain package delivery service on that day. “While I’m sure Senator […]
A Nov. 9 hearing in federal court in California has prompted the USPS to postpone subcontracting all Postal Vehicle Service operations in the state until early next year, after arbitration on the matter. The Postal Service filed a sworn statement with the court stipulating that it would not excess career employees or terminate Postal Support […]
The Postal Service has provided NAPUS with a list of Post Offices that are expected to be included in the November 17 implementation of POStPlan. These offices will be Remotely Managed Post Offices (RMPOs) that will report to Administrative Post Offices (APOs.) A list of the planned offices that are scheduled to be part of […]
APWU-represented postal employees will receive an increase in their annual salaries effective Nov. 17 — the first in three years. The raise will be reflected in paychecks issued Dec. 7 and will apply to employees covered by the APWU-USPS 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement. Career employees will receive a raise of 1 percent. Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs) […]