{"id":13427,"date":"2015-12-12T09:46:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=13427"},"modified":"2015-12-12T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:46:38","slug":"apwu-pse-conversions-top-25000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/12\/12\/apwu-pse-conversions-top-25000\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: PSE Conversions Top 25,000!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-news-pdf field-type-file field-label-hidden field-wrapper\"><span class=\"file\">APWU News: <a title=\"NSB 15-2015 for Web.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/sites\/apwu\/files\/nsb-pdfs\/NSB%2015-2015%20for%20Web_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" type=\"application\/pdf; length=1077507\">NSB 15-2015<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(1.03 MB)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"body field\">\n<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">12\/10\/2015<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The APWU reached a major milestone in November: More than 25,000 Postal Support Employees (PSEs) \u2013 including some from every craft \u2013 have been converted to career over the last two years. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10087\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New.jpg\" alt=\"1-APWU-New\" width=\"359\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New.jpg 478w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-APWU-New-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a life-changing event for the workers who were converted and their families,\u201d said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. \u201cIt means more stability and greater financial security. It\u2019s an outstanding example of the union at work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also a great example of what we can accomplish when we work together,\u201d he said. \u201cLocal and state leaders, National Business Agents, Regional Coordinators and Craft Directors and Assistant Directors all persevered to win these conversions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, the PSEs themselves \u2013 and the former PSEs \u2013 played an important role,\u201d Dimondstein added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany spoke out about the need for conversions and got active in the union to make sure they happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The involvement of a new generation of workers in union affairs is a great benefit to the APWU, and will be for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the conversions were the result of the Memorandum of Understanding on Filling of Residual Vacancies, which the APWU and the Postal Service signed in March 2014. A July 2014 Maintenance Craft settlement on custodial staffing, a September 2014 arbitration win on staffing \u201cPOStPlan\u201d offices, and the \u201cglobal settlement\u201d that enforced limits on postmasters performing clerk craft work in small offices, were also essential to the PSE conversions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU News: NSB 15-2015\u00a0(1.03 MB) 12\/10\/2015\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The APWU reached a major milestone in November: More than 25,000 Postal Support Employees (PSEs) \u2013 including some from every craft \u2013 have been converted to career over the last two years. \u201cThis is a life-changing event for the workers who were converted and their families,\u201d said APWU President Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427","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=13427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13428,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427\/revisions\/13428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}