“Kelly Girl” Award Is Issued – $19,717,431.00 plus $128,142.74 in lost union dues. Payout not to exceed $9,694 will be made individually to 2,034 Clerks From PostalReporter.com reader: It was just announced by the Arizona local APWU that the arbitrator has awarded the union nearly $20 million ($19.7+). The PO had they’re chance to settle […]
Post Office: Jay Em, Wyoming 82219
Postal Service’s Miller gets blue-collar name tag By Bill McAllister Washington Correspondent At the Aug. 8 meeting of the United States Postal Service board of governors, chairman James C. Miller III was back at the podium wearing a blue uniform shirt similar to those worn by Postal Service workers. But something was different this time. […]
Post Office: Jumping Branch, West Virginia 25969
APWU News Even with the Consumer Price Index falling slightly in July, the latest Cost-Of-Living Adjustment under the National Agreement will give APWU-craft employees an annual raise of $686. July was the last month of the second six-month COLA measuring period in the 2006-2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement. The COLA will be effective Sept. 1, and will […]
USPS Press Release MEXICO CITY — The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the Servicio Postal Mexicano (SEPOMEX) have signed an agreement to improve mail services between the United States and Mexico. USPS has agreed to assist SEPOMEX in efforts to transform its management structure and processes and re-engineer its operations. SEPOMEX has agreed to collaborate […]
A former U.S. postal worker admitted in federal court this morning that he defrauded the federal government out of $392,000 in workers’ compensation payments over the past 16 years. David P. VanDeusen, 56, pleaded guilty to fraud in obtaining workers’ comp benefits. VanDeusen went out on workers’ comp in 1991 with a back injury he […]
FSS will reduce city carrier work load by 85 per cent. Three-fourths of city carrier volume is flats, most City Carriers spend 2 hours in office and 6 hours on street with 30 minute fixed office time break. FSS will reduce office time and increase street time. The Memorandum of Understanding included in the USPS, […]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Merit System Protection Board’s decision removing EAS-17 Customer Services Supervisor David Whelan from his position (see background of case below). The Court issued its non-precedential decision without an opinion.
Postal Address Management Systems Specialist is EAS position On August 7, 2007, the US District Court of the District of Columbia granted the USPS motion for summary judgment based on the NLRB’s clarification decision excluding the AMS Specialist position from the bargaining unit. In short, the court ruled that the February 2007 National Labor Relations Board […]