During the National Association of Postmasters (NAPUS) national convention Phil Jones, the NAPUS Legal Defense Plan attorney, told Postmasters… “You cannot expect any privacy on your Facebook page,” he said. “If you put something out there that can be viewed as derogatory toward the USPS, a customer or employee, you are opening yourself up to […]
Postal Service overpaid $6.8B to FERS pension fund NALC Bulletin September 2010 The Civil Service Retirement System is not the only “beneficiary” of a massive Office of Personnel Management miscalculation, a new report shows. A crucial component of the NALC’s campaign to prevent the U.S. Postal Service from cutting Saturday mail delivery service has been […]
The following comes to us via PostCom – The Washington Post recently posted an editorial on the Postal Service regarding the commencement of contract talks between two of the major postal unions and the U.S. Postal Service. The following is a letter to the editor written by Professor Murray Comarow, a long-time student of things […]
APWU Ballots to be Mailed in Election of Union Officers APWU News Bulletin 06-2010, Sept. 10, 2010 Ballots for the 2010 Election of APWU National Officers are being mailed Monday, Sept. 13, to Wednesday, Sept. 15. Every member in good standing as of June 15, 2010, will receive a ballot. Ballots must be received by […]
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 […]