CLYDE, TX – The U.S. Postal Service would like to warn people that only authorized U.S. Postal Service delivery personnel are allowed to place items in a mailbox. By law, a mailbox is intended only for receipt of postage-paid U.S. Mail. Recently, there have been reports of people placing non-mail items that did not bear […]
To All Postal Employees: It’s Time to Start Sending Time Thieves to Jail – and Get the Unions Off their Butts Don’t laugh. Standing up for justice is no laughing matter. A federal statute regarding time fraud is on the books, and it’s clear. It’s a federal crime, and the time has come to see […]
September 01, 2010 Contract Negotiations Begin Between U.S. Postal Service and American Postal Workers Union Negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement between the U.S. Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union began Sept. 1. The current contract expires Nov. 20, 2010. “Every contract negotiation brings special challenges, and this will be no different,” […]
Literate by Choice Just like you are doing right now reading is a thinking process to interpret words to gain meaning about a topic. Writers write to provoke change using their persuasive language to get their point across and convince others of their point of view. The larger the audience the greater the opportunity the […]
Big Bucks Bigger Difference I like what news correspondent Tom Brokaw said at a past commencement speech, “It’s easy to make a buck, but it is tougher to make a difference.” I say that message needs to go out to all our high paid executives and our national labor leaders. Tom Brokaw continued to say […]
The following is an editorial by postal employee Ronald Williams, Jr. Excessing Means… According to published data on the USPS.com website in the year 2008 more than 40 postal executives received pay-for-performance packages as an annual pay raise ranging from $59 to $73,000 paying out more than 1.2 million dollars on the backs of employees […]
It’s all yours – eOPF: My official personnel folder Where can employees go — anytime, anywhere — to look at their official records? The Official Personnel Folder (OPF) contains documents, including appointment, compensation, benefits, administrative and payroll records. USPS may use these records to review employee qualifications, status, eligibility, rights and benefits. They’re also used to track […]
This is a summary of Regular Panel Arbitrator Andres M. Strongin in case H06T-1H-C-08255189 regarding the Postal Service denial of an employee’s request for voluntary transfer. The arbitrator sustained the Union’s grievance; he ruled the Postal Service violated grievant’s right to request a transfer under Article 12.6 of the National Agreement and the Memorandum of […]
July 19, 2010 Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA) It’s Time to Fight Back It is time for poor and Middle-class workers to start fighting back. The corporate community has become increasingly prone to take shortcuts on safety, create hostile work environments, undercutting and even stealing wages from gainfully employed workers in the name of […]
Major Mailers Go Ballistic Over Rate Increase Attempt to Shift the Burden to Postal Employees Burrus Update 10-2010, July 9, 2010 The Postal Service has filed a request to increase postage rates effective Jan. 2, 2011, and is proposing to raise the price of first-class, single-piece letters from 44 cents to 46 cents. Increases for […]