APWU News The APWU and the private-sector mail-haul firm Pat Salmon & Sons have agreed to a one-month extension of a contract covering more than 500 drivers. The collective bargaining agreement in effect since Aug. 30, 2006, had been set to expire May 15. “The parties have several tentative agreements on work-rule issues,” APWU Support Services […]
from NAPS Update The Postal Service is expected to announce its latest thinking on plans to cut operations and network costs on Wednesday, May 20, when the House postal oversight subcommittee holds a hearing on the hard choices and tradeoffs that underlie the preservation of the nation’s mail system. The hearing, “Nip and Tuck: […]
From National Association of Postal Supervisors NAPS Legislative & Regulatory Update Although the Obama Administration has pulled the plug on initial proposals to bring postal service employee benefits in line with those of federal workers, it has signaled that it has not backed off of interest in potentially reducing postal employee benefits. Kenneth Baer, spokesman […]
Grievant, Matthew Ackah is a Letter Carrier at the Diamond Farms Post Office. Mr. Ackah filed a grievance about an alleged incident that occurred on Saturday, August 30,2008 between Mr. Ackah and his Supervisor, Mr. Hugo Aldana. Grievant asserts that Mr. Aldana told him to go back and get a gun because that is what […]
Here is more info about USPS To Expand National Reassessment Process With New Pilot Program??] that PostalReporter posted back in March of this year: LIMITED DUTY CARRIERS SUFFER THE ULTIMATE HARM By: Ray Hill, Executive Vice-President NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS AFL-CIO Branch 2902 (Chatsworth, CA) I’m sure you are all at least somewhat familiar […]
Press Release from the US Departmen t of Justice William J. Edwards, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Elizabeth A. Farcht, Special Agent in Charge of the Eastern Area for the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General, announced today that an Information has been filed charging Ulysses Bradley, age […]
In a recent Question and Answer session with USPS, APWU wanted to know why the following: APWU: What is the source of Area management’s change regarding the practice of issuing official notice to the Region via US Mail? Since at least 2001 and continuing there after the US mails has been recognized as the official […]
Press Release from the National Association of Letter Carriers The head of the National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) said today that frequent postage rate increases like the one today that boosted a first-class stamp to 44 cents – while necessary for the U.S. Postal Service to function effectively this year – can and should […]
The Union has initiated a national dispute over the issuance of a new Publication 156, “Postal Employees Guide to Contract Postal Units”, that replaces the Handbook AS-707-F, “Contracting for Contract Postal Units.” The provisions of Handbook AS-707-F are utilized by the Union in regard to the enforcement, administration and/or interpretation of the collective bargaining agreement, […]
Press Release frm the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Letter carriers across the country will collect non-perishable food donations Saturday (May 9) as they deliver mail along their postal routes in the nation’s largest one-day effort to Stamp Out Hunger. The 17 th annual Letter Carriers’ National Food Drive is being conducted by the National […]