An official for the local American Postal Workers Union has been indicted in federal court in Washington on charges of bribing a government official to steer trucking business to his gas station and repair shop.In exchange for the government contracts, prosecutors said Kevin J. Basil handed the government official fast-food restaurant bags of cash, saying, […]
This is a summary of Regular Panel Arbitrator Michael E. Zobrak’s decision in case C06T-1C-D-09371888 regarding the Postal Service’s decision to discharge the grievant for allegedly filing a fraudulent OWCP claim. The arbitrator found the Grievant was removed for improper conduct in filing an OWCP claim and for providing inaccurate information related to a foot […]
APWU Web News Article 068-2010, July 15, 2010 To strengthen the fight against the Postal Service’s harsh National Reassessment Program (NRP), the APWU is encouraging limited-duty and permanent-rehabilitation employees to complete a questionnaire sponsored by a law firm that has filed a class-action complaint against the USPS. The complaint alleges that the NRP discriminates against […]
Recent audit report from the USPS Office of Inspector General : Most Postal Service bargaining unit employees are represented by one of the four major unions. The national agreements signed by senior-level management and the four union presidents include grievance-arbitration procedures that Postal Service management, bargaining unit employees (also referred to as craft employees), and union […]
APWU News The APWU and National Association of Letters Carriers (NALC) reached a settlement [PDF] with the Postal Service on May 20, 2010, ending a 2008 lawsuit in which the unions charged the USPS with “systematic and widespread intrusions” into members’ medical records. The settlement requires the Postal Service, agents of the USPS Office of Inspector […]
Press Release from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Washington, DC (April 5, 2010) – The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has dismissed a complaint filed by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and a Nashua-area postal worker who discovered his annual union membership dues were illegally diverted into the union’s political action […]
Press Release – The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) asking it to investigate charges made by a Nashua-area postal worker who discovered his annual union membership dues were illegally diverted into the union’s political action committee (PAC).In July 2006, United States Postal […]
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 […]
According to the Houston Chronicle: Federal prosecutors have asked fraud investigators from the Labor Department and Postal Service to examine allegations that a former postal union official in Houston embezzled union funds. Ed Gallagher, deputy criminal chief for major offenders of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Houston, said he asked the two inspectors general to […]
Democratic Talk Radio announces our 1st Labor Hero of the Year Award for 2008 Democratic Talk Radio has given our 1st Annual Labor Hero of the Year Award to Fran Friel, President of the Pennsylvania Postal Workers for moving his union convention from the hotel in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania to honor a picket line by […]