The NALC has filed a national-level interpretive dispute with the Postal Service, charging it failed to provide mandatory retirement counseling prior to the June 19 irrevocable decision date for the latest Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) offer extended to letter carriers. “A lot of our members did not get the help they needed to make a […]
Station and Branch Closures, Five-Day Delivery: Acts of Surrender, With the Battle’s Outcome in Doubt Closing stations and branches and reducing mail delivery to five days per week “will unquestionably have a negative effect on the postal monopoly,” APWU President William Burrus told a House subcommittee at a hearing July 30. Such actions “will impede […]
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced legislation for the U.S. Postal Service to team up with Census Bureau. The letter carriers will help with the once-a-decade count of how many people live in America. Below is the text of the legislation introduced July 10, 2009. So far the bill has nineteeen co-sponsors. 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. […]
APWU News APWU President William Burrus has called on APWU locals and state organizations to organize opposition to a Senate bill that contains a provision that would be devastating to postal workers. The Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Funding Reform Act of 2009 (S. 1507) was intended to provide temporary financial relief to the cash-strapped Postal […]
Press Release July 30, 2009 Washington, DC – The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) today submitted to Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia its Review of Retiree Health Benefit Fund Liability as Calculated by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Postal Service […]
Saying that he has long been “skeptical” about whether the increased use of electronic communication is to blame for the Postal Service’s economic woes, APWU President William Burrus told lawmakers July 29 that “It is imperative that postal decision-makers correctly identify the cause of the reduction in volume and the trends that will drive future […]
Jordan Small, acting Vice President, Network Operations, today testified before the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia on station and branch optimization and delivery route adjustments. Small appeared on a panel with John Waller, the Director, Office of Accountability and Compliance at the Postal Regulatory Commission and Phillip Herr […]
Press Release Letter Carriers’ union President Fredric V. Rolando urged Congress today to ensure that structural changes being made in U.S. Postal Service operations due to the nation’s current economic crisis do not cause more harm than good over the long term to its mission of delivering mail to the American people. Rolando, who assumed […]
APWU Slams Postal Service on BMC Name Change APWU Web News Article #086-09, July 29, 2009 In a letter to USPS management [PDF], APWU President William Burrus admonished the Postal Service for failing to officially notify the union that the Bulk Mail Center network has been renamed the Network Distribution Center network. “We have negotiated […]
Lieberman, Carper Join Republicans to Support Changes APWU News An amendment to a bill to provide temporary financial relief to the cash-strapped Postal Service was adopted by a Senate committee July 29, rendering the bill unacceptable to the APWU. “We oppose, on principle, legislation that interferes with the collective bargaining process,” said APWU President William Burrus. […]