{"id":20161,"date":"2017-07-13T08:46:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T13:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=20161"},"modified":"2017-07-13T08:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T13:46:19","slug":"apwu-tentative-agreement-reached-with-salmon-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/07\/13\/apwu-tentative-agreement-reached-with-salmon-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: Tentative Agreement Reached with Salmon Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APWU &#8211; 07\/12\/2017 &#8211; The American Postal Workers Union reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with Salmon Companies, the largest ground transportation supplier to the United States Postal Service. Truck drivers for the private-sector company are members of the APWU Support Services Division. The contract covers locals from Dallas, TX, Shreveport, LA, Little Rock, AR, and Memphis, TN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to strengthen language regarding job bidding, bumping rights and seniority classifications. We also overhauled language concerning the use of Extra-boards and dispatching procedures,\u201d reported Support Services Director Steve Brooks. \u201cAnother highlight of the agreement is the expansion of authorized physicians for drug testing and Department of Transportation (DOT) physicals, and clarification on language regarding company-covered expenses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The negotiating committee, made up of APWU Support Services Division leadership and drivers from each unit across the country, participated in several bargaining sessions with the company before and after the previous contract\u2019s expiration on March 1, 2017.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7249\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring negotiations, the high cost of health care premiums was a very controversial issue, as was layover pay and wages for non-DOT driving work,\u201d Brooks continued. \u201cNevertheless, improvement in each was made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ballots are in the mail for the membership to vote. Should the tentative agreement be ratified by the membership, it will be effective until May 15, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll things considered, this contract is an improvement from the previous agreement. It will better the drivers\u2019 lives and we will build on moving forward,\u201d concluded Brooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APWU &#8211; 07\/12\/2017 &#8211; The American Postal Workers Union reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with Salmon Companies, the largest ground transportation supplier to the United States Postal Service. Truck drivers for the private-sector company are members of the APWU Support Services Division. The contract covers locals from Dallas, TX, Shreveport, LA, Little Rock, AR, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20161","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=20161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20162,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20161\/revisions\/20162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}