Greg Bell APWU Executive Vice President The Postal Service’s top management, including Postmaster General Donahoe, has been drawing fire from all sides in recent months, after a series of disturbing and embarrassing revelations. Criticism of postal management started mounting after the USPS filed a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) for an advisory opinion […]
Postmasters will receive additional time to take advantage of the special incentive offer. Postmasters who are retirement eligible or VER eligible will now have until July 2, 2012 to apply for vacant Postmaster positions. Please see the relevant links below; Newsbreak — 5-25-2012 HR_FAQ_Postmaster_Incentive_052512 Link EXTRA PM Changes_final Charlie Moser May 25, 2012
The 2012 NALC Guide to Route Inspections was created to assist shop stewards and branch officers in identifying contractual violations that take place during management’s unilateral six-day route counts and inspections / adjustments, and with filing successful grievances on those violations. The sections in this guide take you through the inspection in chronological order and […]
(5/25/2012) The APWU and the USPS reached a settlement on May 25 that will protect staffing, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced. The agreement prohibits the Postal Service from deducting square footage of floor space, including under mail processing equipment, in developing a Building Inventory. The agreement resolves Case #Q06T-4Q-C 10269698, which was scheduled […]
Overview: It’s a short-term fix, not a long-term solution The Senate bill will not fix the Postal Service because it provides only short-term financial relief from the uniquely unfair and excessive burden to pre-fund future retiree health benefits and it fails to offer a viable business model for the 21st century. See Lazard report on […]
from NAPS May 21, 2012 The Postal Service’s announcement last Thursday regarding its modified, two-phase plan to consolidate its mail processing network, coupled with its May 9 POStPlan to keep rural post offices open (but with limited operating hours), is likely to move the House of Representatives closer to bringing postal legislation to the floor […]
The postmaster general announced on Thursday, May 17, that he would move forward with the closing of hundreds of mail-processing plants. That followed his announcement on Wednesday, May 9, that rather than proceed with post office closings he would sharply reduce hours in thousands of rural post offices. In response to the latest announcement, NALC […]
APWU Web News Article 61-2012, May 21, 2012 The APWU and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) are asking their locals and state organizations to meet with their U.S. representatives at their district offices during the Memorial Day congressional recess, May 21 to May 29, to urge them to act now to save the […]
The possibility that the House of Representatives could consider H.R. 2309 towards the end of June or beginning of July has generated renewed interest in the bill, and, how the House Leadership will deal with the controversy relating to a number of its provisions. The week’s eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin seeks to put into […]
May 18, 2012 This morning, Postal Service headquarters released a list of Post Offices that will be upgraded under the new Post Office Structure Plan (POStPlan.) More than 4,600 lower level offices will be upgraded to EAS 18 offices. The list also includes Level 51 -53 offices that will be upgraded to career 6 hour […]