National Association of Letter Carriers Yesterday, in a mandatory stand-up talk, Postal Service management all across the country told letter carriers: “If we were a private company, we would have already filed for bankruptcy and gone through restructuring—much like major automakers did two years ago.” The Service repeated this claim in a press release distributed […]
Postmasters Receive Second RIF Notice On August 2nd Areas sent another RIF notice to Postmasters impacted by DUO. Many Postmasters had received a RIF notice when their office was going through the DUO process. This RIF notice apparently was just a notice of a possible RIF. The August 2 RIF letter was a General Notice […]
USPS has published the following Statements, White Papers and Talking Points on eliminating layoff protection, administering its own retirement and health programs While the Postal Service remains the cornerstone of a $1 trillion industry and will continue to be vital to the U.S. economy, the Postal Service will be insolvent next month due to significant declines […]
“The U. S. Postal Service is facing financial problems that was created largely by Congress. Now Congress wants to strip Postal Workers of their Union rights. MSNBC Ed Schultz talks with Cliff Guffey, President of the American Postal Workers Union on what’s being done to protect postal workers.” “How much do you know about the […]
.. one local man says instead of hard work, he saw a postal worker sleeping in an empty field. In a picture taken by Sam Bowersox, he says a postal worker was taking a snooze in a field in the middle of the day. “It’s obvious that he’s sound asleep,” Bowersox said.
USPS NewsBreak -The following is an announcement and Mandatory stand-up talk by USPS to employees on August 11, 2011 USPS EXPLORING ADDITIONAL LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS TO ADDRESS FISCAL CRISIS The Postal Service is vital to the U.S. economy — and will remain so for years to come. It’s the cornerstone of a $1 trillion industry. But […]
APWU President Cliff Guffey has condemned USPS legislative proposals that would destroy the collective bargaining rights of postal workers and interfere with the union’s contract, which Postal Service and the APWU agreed to in March. Guffey made the statement in response to USPS announcements [PDF] that it would seek congressional support for legislation to eliminate […]
NALC President Fredric V. Rolando has issued a statement to denounce Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s latest “radical” legislative proposals: Today, city letter carriers across the country received a mandatory stand-up talk from supervisors as part of a concerted campaign by top postal management to convince Congress to slash postal employees’ health and pension benefits and […]
An internal USPS document indicating that the reassessment of Limited Duty and Rehabilitation employees concluded on Jan. 31, 2011, is not cause for celebration, Human Relations Director Sue Carney says, because the National Reassessment Process (NRP) seems to have been eliminated in name only. (note: As PostalReporter.com reported, USPS calls NRP simply ELM546. Other instructions […]
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of making false claims against the United States Postal Service, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. The seven-count indictment named David Cooper, 62, as the sole defendant. According to the indictment, from on […]