{"id":11577,"date":"2015-07-07T07:20:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T12:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11577"},"modified":"2015-07-07T07:20:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T12:20:16","slug":"video-u-s-postal-service-contract-talks-with-apwu-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/07\/07\/video-u-s-postal-service-contract-talks-with-apwu-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: U.S. Postal Service Contract Talks with APWU Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 06, 2015 &#8211; After months of rallying and negotiation talks, the American Post Workers Union has yet to reach a contract agreement with the U.S. Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p>According to APWU President Joe Szocki, the two sides have been in mediation since June, after failing to reach an agreement by the May 20 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After some initial results, the final package that they put forth financially, they wanted to create another entry-level position at lower wages,\u201d said Szocki.\u00a0 \u201cWe could not accept that.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erietvnews.com\/story\/29487211\/us-postal-service-contract-talks-with-union-continue\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/WICU.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=132464;hostDomain=www.erietvnews.com;playerWidth=475;playerHeight=360;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11658428;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><a title=\"WICU12 HD WSEE Erie, PA News, Sports, Weather, Events\" href=\"http:\/\/www.erietvnews.com\">WICU12 HD WSEE Erie, PA News, Sports, Weather, Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/APWU-Shirt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11578\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/APWU-Shirt.jpg\" alt=\"APWU Shirt\" width=\"613\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/APWU-Shirt.jpg 613w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/APWU-Shirt-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 06, 2015 &#8211; After months of rallying and negotiation talks, the American Post Workers Union has yet to reach a contract agreement with the U.S. Postal Service. According to APWU President Joe Szocki, the two sides have been in mediation since June, after failing to reach an agreement by the May 20 deadline. &#8220;After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11579,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions\/11579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}