WASHINGTON – April 23, 2014 – Thousands of members of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and community activists will engage in National Day of Action on Thursday, April 24, to protest the Postal Service’s sweetheart deal with Staples that is moving mail service into Staples stores. Events will be held at more than 50 […]
USPS Scheme Overturned ‘Rescoring’ of Promotion Exams Violated Contract, Arbitrator Rules April 21, 2014 An outrageous management ploy was overturned on April 16, when an arbitrator ruled [PDF] that the USPS violated the contract when it retroactively changed the passing score on promotion eligibility exams in the summer of 2009, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer […]
April 18, 2014 APWU President Mark Dimondstein will appear on the Craig Melvin show on MSNBC on Saturday, April 19, at 3 p.m. EDT, where he will discuss the campaign to Stop Staples and the National Day of Action on April 24. The campaign protests the privatization of USPS retail operations and the transfer of […]
April 14, 2014 The APWU will hold two Telephone Town Hall meetings to discuss the campaign to Stop Staples. President Mark Dimondstein will talk with union members about the threat the USPS deal with Staples poses to our jobs — and to the public Postal Service. The Telephone Town Hall meetings are expected to last […]
APWU – April 15, 2014 A three-minute APWU video highlights the union’s April 5 demonstration at a Staples store near Chicago to protest a no-bid deal between the company and the U.S. Postal Service that staffs “postal” counters in Staples stores with non-postal employees. “We have to make sure that there’s a vibrant, public post […]
APWU – April 10, 2014 Dozens of locals, state organizations and retiree chapters are preparing for the April 24 National Day of Action to protest the Postal Service’s sweetheart deal with Staples, which puts “postal” counters in the office supply stores — and staffs them with low-wage Staples employees. But APWU members in California and […]
April 9, 2014 The Postal Service needs real reform — not the austerity proposed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and the White House, APWU President Mark Dimondstein said after an April 8 hearing by a House committee. The hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which Rep. Issa chairs, focused on White House budget […]
April 7, 2014 The Postal Service and Staples are working overtime to keep the details of their sweetheart deal a secret, but a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board — and documents the USPS was forced to provide to the APWU — have revealed some disturbing truths. “Staples and postal management are perpetrating a […]
April 3, 2014 Postal Support Employees should beware of management’s latest ploy, union leaders are warning: Beginning in April, the Postal Service plans to ask non-career employees to take Voice of the Employee (VOE) surveys. Management is after a lot more than meets the eye, according to APWU Executive Vice President Debby Szeredy. “What management […]
April 1, 2014 The postal provisions in the budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on April 1 are a “thinly-veiled attempt to plunder the Postal Service — to slash service, cut workers’ benefits, and render our great national treasure ripe for privatization,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. They’re also based on a fallacy, Dimondstein […]