{"id":24348,"date":"2018-09-21T08:29:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=24348"},"modified":"2018-09-21T08:29:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:29:43","slug":"apwu-and-usps-agree-to-extend-negotiations-deadline-until-october-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/09\/21\/apwu-and-usps-agree-to-extend-negotiations-deadline-until-october-20-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU and USPS Agree to Extend Negotiations Deadline until October 20, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

APWU News – 09\/21\/2018<\/span>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/span>APWU President Mark Dimondstein has announced that the union and the Postal Service have agreed to extend negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement for 30 days.<\/p>\n

Our current union contract between the American Postal Workers Union and the United States Postal Service covers the wages, hours and working conditions of 200,000 postal workers. The current Collective Bargaining Agreement expired Thursday, September 20, 2018.<\/p>\n

The APWU and postal management have engaged in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) since June 26, 2018. Three months of frequent negotiation sessions and a last 10-day stretch of intense \u201cround-the-clock\u201d discussions identified important issues that the union believes deserve more time to discuss and explore before declaring an impasse and ending negotiations for a voluntary agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to reach a negotiated settlement that can be voted on by the members\u201d declared President and lead negotiator Mark Dimondstein. \u201cNational Negotiations are always challenging. At this point in time it is in the best interest of the members to stay at the bargaining table rather than declare a hard and fast impasse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once an impasse is declared, the parties enter the phase of mediation and binding interest arbitration. In an interest arbitration, after both the union and management sides make their presentations and arguments, the final decisions regarding our future conditions of employment is determined by an arbitrator.<\/p>\n

The goals of the APWU remain consistent as the union is \u201cfighting today for a better tomorrow\u201d and include:\u00a0 Fair wage increases, COLA, job security including maintaining no lay-off protections, bridging the gaps of the divisive three-tier wage structure, addressing concerns of hostile work environments, seeking better career and full-time opportunities for both PSEs and PTFs, and expanded postal services.<\/p>\n

\u201cPostal workers deserve the respect and dignity, recognition for their dedication and hard work, that comes with a decent union contract,\u201d said Dimondstein. \u201cWe will continue this just fight over the next 30 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNegotiations are fluid, changes can happen quickly and we remain optimistic that together we have the power as unionized workers to win a decent union contract,\u201d shared chief spokesperson and Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman. \u201cKeep the contract campaign going strong and continue to send management the message that we are united in our demand for a good union contract.\u201d<\/p>\n

All the rights, benefits and provisions of our existing union contract remain in place, and are fully enforceable during the 30-day extension of negotiations.<\/p>\n

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APWU News – 09\/21\/2018\u00a0–\u00a0APWU President Mark Dimondstein has announced that the union and the Postal Service have agreed to extend negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement for 30 days. Our current union contract between the American Postal Workers Union and the United States Postal Service covers the wages, hours and working conditions of 200,000 […]<\/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-24348","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\/24348","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=24348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24349,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24348\/revisions\/24349"}],"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=24348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}