{"id":2866,"date":"2011-09-20T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T20:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2011-09-20T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T20:46:05","slug":"apwu-approves-dues-assessment-for-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2011\/09\/20\/apwu-approves-dues-assessment-for-members\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU Approves Dues Assessment For Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/APWU-News5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2867\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/APWU-News5-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Executive Board Approves Dues Assessment<br \/>\nFunds Will Support Aggressive Legislative, Media Effort<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vowing to continue to do \u201ceverything in our power to prevent the destruction of the Postal Service,\u201d the APWU National Executive Board has approved a special dues assessment on Sept. 20 that will begin in Pay Period 21-2011 and continue through Pay Period 18-2012. Career APWU members will be assessed $1 per pay period; Postal Support Employees will be assessed 50 cents per pay period.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the special assessment is to support the union\u2019s ongoing legislative and media campaign to protect APWU-represented workers and defend postal service to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese efforts are costly, but they are absolutely necessary,\u201d APWU President Cliff Guffey said. \u201cThe debate in Washington over the solution to the USPS financial crisis will have a profound effect on our members. We must do everything we can to ensure that the Postal Service survives, along with our jobs. We cannot allow misguided legislators \u2013 or USPS management \u2013 to dismantle the Postal Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Locals that wish to assume pay the assessment for their members must notify the APWU Secretary-Treasurer in writing. The assessment expires at the 2012 National Convention, which could vote to extend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Board Approves Dues Assessment Funds Will Support Aggressive Legislative, Media Effort Vowing to continue to do \u201ceverything in our power to prevent the destruction of the Postal Service,\u201d the APWU National Executive Board has approved a special dues assessment on Sept. 20 that will begin in Pay Period 21-2011 and continue through Pay Period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}