Burrus Update When President Bush signed an Executive Order granting non-essential federal employees a day off on Dec. 24, 2007, I requested that the Postal Service follow the same spirit of holiday cheer and grant postal employees the day off as well. Postmaster General Potter has informed me verbally — and information published in the […]
Largest Implementation of its Kind Anywhere Gives Employees Unprecedented Informational Access WASHINGTON, DC — Postal Service employees everywhere now have access to a new cutting-edge human resources (HR) system to meet the demands of the information age. Rollout of the technology phase of the PostalPEOPLE initiative, the largest implementation of its kind in the […]
Jim Letten, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced Friday the indictments of nine postal employees for conspiracy to steal from the United States Mail. Among the indicted were: 52-year-old Timothy B. Dede 36-year-old Benson V. Dabney 53-year-old Clyde Lee Caston 33-year-old Louin Seabrook Jackson 44-year-old Kim Yvette Hester Martin 42-year-old Felicia […]
NALC Presdient William Young released the following message: My thanks to all of you who responded to my call over the weekend to contact Senators Bill Nelson, Ben Nelson, Mark Pyror and Blanche Lincoln. At present, Senator Harkin’s amendment to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill that would make it easier for FedEx workers to organize a […]
The letter below is USPS’ response to an inquiry by NALC on Postal Employees entitlement to 22 days additional paid Military Leave in support of contingency operations:
The following are excerpts from Lawson A. Rose v. United States Postal Service (Merit System Protection Board [MSPB] decision issued December 10, 2007): Effective January 31, 2007, the agency removed the appellant from his position as a preference-eligible PS-4 Regular Mail Handler with the agency’s Cardiss Collins Postal Facility (Cardiss Collins) in Chicago, Illinois, based on […]
According to Inside Indiana Business: The U.S. Postal Service Remote Encoding Center in Fort Wayne is adding workers. The center has added 111 jobs since the same time last year to handle an increasing workload as other centers around the nation close. The City of Fort Wayne recently awarded the Fort Wayne REC a $70,000 […]
The American Postal Workers Union released the following: After President Bush issued an Executive Order granting non-essential federal employees a day off on Dec. 24, 2007, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) quickly announced that the order did not apply to postal employees. OPM wrote, “The Executive Order excuses most Executive Branch employees from duty […]
The Appeals court has upheld the demotion of a Postal Customer Services Supervisor, EAS-17 for altering timekeeping records. According to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals: Prior to his demotion in October 2005, Richard Davis was Supervisor, Customer Services, EAS-17, responsible for supervising mail carriers at the Burlington Station in Knoxville, Tennessee. One of his […]
From NALC President William Young: In last year’s postal reform bill, we secured our collective bargaining rights. The ability to form a union and to negotiate collectively ensures workplace fairness and a decent standard of living. Every American worker should have that ability. It is especially important to letter carriers that workers from competing delivery […]