In a letter to Ted Keating, President of the National Association of Postal Supervisors USPS wrote: This is in response to your recent request for consideration to include all additional EAS field positions as part of a Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) request to Office of Personnel Management (OPM). As you are aware, we currently have received approval […]
$1,477 Raise on Aug. 30 APWU News Thanks to a cost-of-living adjustment that will be the highest in APWU-bargaining history, postal workers represented by the union will be receiving an annual raise of $1,477 at the end of the month. The increase is the result of the Consumer Price Index rise during July, the last month […]
The next regular cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) under the (NALC)2006-2011 National Agreement will be $1,498 annually, based on the Consumer Price Index for July. The COLA, effective the pay period beginning August 30 (pay date September 19), is the third of eight COLAs included in the 2006-2011 contract. The new COLA is equivalent to 72 cents […]
“The APWU has appealed to arbitration a dispute over the Postal Service’s policy of requiring employees to automatically submit new medical certification for an FMLA-covered condition simply because the leave year has ended and a new leave year has begun. It is the APWU’s position that this policy violates the Collective Bargaining Agreement, FMLA regulations […]
“On August 18, 2008, an annuity estimate will be mailed to all VER-eligible employees from Eagan, MN. However, there is no guarantee that everyone who applies will be approved. In other words, just because a mail handler gets a VER offer in the mail will not – we repeat, NOT – guarantee a VER. The […]
ROANOKE, Va. – A 59-year-old postal worker in Roanoke faces up to eight years in prison after being indicted for allegedly threatening his supervisor. Federal prosecutors say Samuel Davis Kemp was indicted Thursday. Kemp works as a mail handler at the U.S. Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center in Roanoke. According to the indictment, last […]
From the National Association of Postal Supervisors Legislative and Regulatory Update The National Association of Postal Supervisors has questioned the Postal Service’s plans for the use of contracting out in realigning its mail processing and distribution network and has encouraged Congress to ask the Postal Service where it’s headed in its reliance on private contractors to […]
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Postal Service ended its third fiscal year quarter (April 1 – June 30) with a greater-than-expected net loss of $1.1 billion. The national economic slowdown reduced mail volume at an accelerated pace and continued inflation in fuel prices produced rapidly escalating transportation costs. Despite these financial challenges, Postal Service employees […]
From National League of Postmasters President Charley Mapa: This afternoon, July 23, League President Charley Mapa was contacted by Bill Jones, HQ Labor Relations. Mr. Jones stated that, in response to the letter that his office had received from League and Napus, today the Postal Service had sent to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) […]
The LA Times broke the story One of the nation’s top biodefense researchers has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailing assaults of 2001 that killed five, the Los Angeles Times has learned. Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who for […]