(09/28/12) The Clerk Craft will be the primary craft for the operator position on the new Advanced Facer Canceller System (AFCS), the Postal Service has announced. In a letter dated Sept. 28, 2012, [PDF] the Postal Service wrote, “After reviewing the input from the APWU and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union … the Postal […]
(09/28/12) The APWU and USPS have reached an important agreement that will strengthen seniority for Clerk Craft employees when workers are excessed from an installation, Clerk Craft Director Rob Strunk has announced. The Sept. 25 agreement [PDF] stipulates that Clerk Craft employees will be excessed from losing installations by juniority, without regard to their pay […]
(09/28/12) The APWU and the Postal Service have reached an agreement that clarifies management’s obligation to create desirable schedules and work hours for Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) assignments and other positions in APWU-represented crafts, President Cliff Guffey has announced. The Sept. 28 settlement was prompted by APWU protests that career employees occupying NTFT assignments of less […]
(09/27/12) The APWU and Postal Service have signed an agreement that will strengthen seniority and help protect work in APWU-represented crafts for employees in those crafts, APWU President Cliff Guffey has announced. The settlement limits temporary assignments, reassignments or re-employment of injured employees to “residual vacancies” or “uniquely created assignments consisting of duties that would […]
Maintenance Craft officers have settled a grievance on the pay for employees who are delayed while traveling, Maintenance Division Director Steve Raymer has announced. In accordance with Article 36.2.C of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, “All travel for job-related training will be considered compensable work hours.” The dispute in Case #Q00C-4Q-C 04025449 arose due to a […]
The APWU and USPS settled a dispute on computer software installation on Sept. 13, 2012, agreeing that on-site computer software installation for postal equipment will be performed by Level 10 and Level 11 Electronic Technicians, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced. “This is the clearest language we have achieved on on-site software installation,” he […]
APWU members have begun receiving brochures that include a tear-off card to mail to the chairman of the USPS Board of Governors, calling on him to instruct the Postmaster General to: Adhere to the Collective Bargaining Agreement and Work with the postal unions – which represent hundreds of thousands of dedicated postal employees – to […]
APWU national and local officers must work together to step up enforcement of restrictions on the use of Postal Support Employees (PSEs), Clerk Craft Director Rob Strunk said in a Sept. 14 memo. Article 7.1.B.4 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement limits the number of PSEs in “Function 4” who work the window to: 10 percent […]
From Greg Bell APWU Executive Vice President Instead of developing a strategy to preserve the Postal Service in the digital age, top management executives have been undermining public confidence in the USPS — angering communities and lowering employee morale with plans to close thousands of post offices, consolidate hundreds of mail processing facilities, and cut […]
The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has dismissed a complaint [PDF] filed by the APWU alleging that the USPS violated federal law when it began implementing a plan to eliminate half of the nation’s mail processing plants before the PRC issued an Advisory Opinion on the plan. Under federal law, the USPS must request an advisory […]