Heidel vs USPS, 2009 MSPB 152, August 5, 2009 by Don Cheney The Merit Systems Protection Board found that the appellant was not entitled to the limited duty position he wanted. The Postal Service needed only to assign him to a position for which he is qualified. The USPS restructured the appellant’s current position by […]
Burrus Update I guess it should come as no surprise that Republicans in the House of Representatives have attempted to exploit an off-hand comment by President Obama that compared the Postal Service to FedEx and UPS during a town-hall meeting about healthcare. In a one-page set of talking points titled An Ominous Model for Government […]
“The NALC issued a point-by-point rebuttal of a grossly inaccurate, partisan attack on the Postal Service and its 700,000 employees, perpetrated by by the House Republican Conference in an underhanded bid to derail health care reform. “This smear cannot go unanswered,” NALC President Fredric V. Rolando said. “This attack on America’s most-trusted agency is deliberately […]
The APWU has appealed to arbitration a dispute over the Postal Service’s unilateral consolidation of six USPS Districts. By letter dated May 12, 2009, the union was informed that six district offices had been consolidated and that effective July 4, 2009, the casual reports used by the Union to monitor compliance with Article 7.1.B.5 will […]
USPS To Close Yeadon [PA] Post Office in May 2010 Tri County First Area Local President [Mark] Hennessy has written a letter to the Manager of the Yeadon Borough, asking for their support for his campaign to keep the Yeadon Post Office open. Lansdowne Post Office supervisors told the stewards recently that they received a […]
The OIG press release about the OWCP indictments stated, “The United States Postal Service has a policy of returning disabled employees to a limited duty position or part-time employment at the earliest opportunity during their recovery from their work-related injury.” What happened to the National Reassessment Process? Doesn’t that do the opposite? “Pursuant to […]
From Postal Reporter reader: I was just letting you know that Columbus Ohio was just informed that we are Mode Converted and are all being moved into Mailhandler,Carrier , and custodial jobs. Bob Pritchard and Mike Foster are keeping everything quiet, not passing info out to let everyone know.
News Release from the United States Attorney Northern District of Ohio William J. Edwards, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a federal grand jury returned three separate felony indictments charging three Northeast Ohio residents with defrauding the United States Department of Labor and the United States Postal Service. The […]
The US Postal Service last year failed to promote the unique advantages of VERA to FERS employees. Attached is an actual offer from USPS of voluntary early retirement to a FERS employee that was age 56 with less than 25 years of service. Normally he would need 30 years of service to get an unreduced […]
USPS FACES YEAR-END CASH SHORTFALL SERVICES, PAYROLL WILL NOT BE INTERRUPTED Without legislative relief to reduce its obligation to pay $5.4 billion to $5.8 billion annually to prefund retiree health benefits, the Postal Service this fiscal year faces a possible Sept. 30 cash shortfall of up to $700 million. But that shortfall, according to […]