Month: August 2011

Aug 25th

USPS Posting of Non-Traditional Full-Time Positions Creating Nightmare for Postal Employees

The new USPS/APWU Collective Bargaining Agreement allows for the creation of Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) duty assignments in the Clerk Craft and MVS Craft.  But major problems with implementing the agreement have started to surface nationwide.   APWU has already filed 8 National grievances over issues relating to the NTFT assignements. According to Don Cheney: NTFT WORK SCHEDULES POSTED […]

Aug 25th

USPS Executive Pleads Guilty To Bribery

 Offered Contracts in Return For Payments The U.S. Attorney’s office  for the District of Columbia issued the following press  release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2011  —Ron Middlebrooks, a former senior executive with the U.S. Postal Service, pled guilty today to a bribery charge stemming from his acceptance of $15,000 in cash from a businessman he promised […]

Aug 24th

APWU Welcomes Postal Support Employees to Union

In the 2010 contract negotiations, the American Postal Workers Union was finally successful in eliminating both the casual employee workforce category and the Transitional Employee workforce category. They were replaced with a new category of worker, covered by the Collective Bargaining Agreement, called Postal Support Employees (PSEs).

Aug 24th

CRS Report: Common Questions About Post Office Closures

In late July 2011, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced it was considering the closure of 3,652 retail postal facilities. These are not the only USPS facilities that might discontinue operations. An additional 728 retail postal facilities are being considered for closure under a 2009 USPS initiative, for a total of 4,380 USPS retail facilities.

Aug 23rd

Report: Rural Letter Carriers Union Passes New National Steward System

From PostalReporter.com reader: Today at the National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA)  national convention the delegation passed the proposed national steward system. Posted: 18 Aug 2011 at 4:25am Basically, State, Assistant state, and Area stewards will become employees of the national association and will be trained and paid by national. They will represent the postal […]

Aug 23rd

Postcom: USPS to submit network realignment plan to PRC in mid-September

According to PostCom : ♪♫”Oh I heard it — Heard It — Yes, I heard it through the grapevine. . . .” ♫♪ The word has it that the USPS will be submitting its network realignment as a major service change to the PRC in mid September. My understanding is that the PRC will have […]

Aug 23rd

New Mexico USPS Window Clerk Gets Prison For Embezzling Over $80,000

ALBUQUERQUE (August 18, 2011) – This afternoon, a United States District Judge sentenced Yolanda Vallejos, a 48-year-old resident of Albuquerque, to a two-month term of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for her conviction for theft of federal government property. Vallejos also was ordered to pay $97,025.44 in restitution to the […]

Aug 23rd

USPS Pulls 25 Alaska Offices Off List for Possible Closure

Sen. Begich makes the case for Alaska mail (August 22, 2011) In a meeting today between U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, officials with the United States Postal Service (USPS), rural health care providers, and other community groups, postal officials announced 25 Alaska post offices are no longer under consideration for closure.

Aug 22nd

APWU: Save USPS, Stop Layoffs, Support H.R. 1351

With headlines predicting the imminent demise of the Postal Service — and management brazenly exploiting the crisis to attack postal employees — the APWU is asking union members to contact their members of Congress and urge them to take action to save the USPS and protect our jobs.