On August 18, 2010, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Sharron Dixon Haynes, aka Sharron A. Haynes, former election candidate of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 217 (located in Jackson, Miss.), was indicted on three counts of making and causing to be made, and using and causing […]
Retirement decisions are among the most important — and daunting — that members can make. Now, navigating the paperwork and understanding retirement plans is easier, thanks to the APWU Retiree Advice Center. Retired APWU members — or members who plan to retire in the near future — can now e-mail their retirement-related questions to RetireeAdviceCenter@apwu.org. […]
APWU News Former postal employees who retired or separated from the Postal Service in 2009 as part of the negotiated Early Out Incentive agreement are entitled to receive an additional $5,000, tentatively scheduled for Oct. 29, 2010. Those who participated in the retirement incentive program received $10,000 as part of the agreement in 2009. The […]
APWU News The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the USPS $210,000 for willfully exposing employees to electrical safety hazards at the Columbus, OH Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC). OSHA inspectors issued the Postal Service five citations [PDF] after they found the Postal Service failed to properly train employees on safe electrical work practices […]
In balloting that ended Oct. 14, Cliff Guffey was elected the new president of the American Postal Workers Union, receiving 69 percent of the votes in a three-way race. Greg Bell garnered 75 percent of votes cast, to win the Vice Presidency. Guffey, who has served as the APWU’s vice president since 2001, becomes the […]
APWU News APWU President William Burrus has ridiculed assertions about the Postal Service that appeared in a recent column in the E-Commerce Times: “There were so many misstatements in your article,” Burrus wrote [PDF], “I hardly know where to begin.” In the Oct. 8 article, Theodore di Stefano, a managing partner at an investment banking […]
New Online Program for Postal Employees makes it next to impossible to take training tests on the clock. From APWU: [The APWU] Clerk Division officers recently reported on problems union members are facing since management established OASys, the Online Employee Scheduling and Assessment System. Many aspects of this program, which requires employees to schedule typing tests […]
The union that represents some postal workers had to extend elections and offer replacement ballots after the originals were apparently lost in the mail. The American Postal Workers Union of the AFL-CIO gave a Thursday deadline for union members to request replacement ballots for the election of union officers. My Fox NY
The American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, requested information from the United States Postal Service under the Freedom of Information Act on September 10, 2008. APWU requested “the most recent Pay for Performance bonus and/or pay increases . . . contain[ing] the following information: finance number, last name, first name, middle initial, level, title, PFP lump-sum amount, PFP […]
APWU News The Postal Service suffered two punishing blows this week: The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) rejected a request for a rate increase, and Congress refused to give the USPS relief from the requirement to pay $5.5 billion by Sept. 30 to pre-fund future retiree healthcare obligations. The Postal Service requested the rate increase under […]