Arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg ruled [PDF] on Aug. 1 that employees represented by the APWU who transfer to or are excessed into non-APWU crafts may not carry the protection against layoffs they have earned under the APWU Collective Bargaining Agreement to their new crafts. Career employees in all crafts currently earn lifetime protection against layoffs […]
The Postal Service ended its third fiscal quarter (April 1 – June 30) with a net loss of $5.2 billion, compared to a net loss of $3.1 billion for the same period last year. Contributing significantly to the loss was $3.1 billion of expenses for the legislatively mandated prefunding of retiree health care plan. Despite […]
Employees Delivered For the second consecutive quarter, service performance and customer experience measurement (CEM) scores have improved. The Postal Service had its best quarter on record for overnight, 2-day and 3- to 5-day First-Class Mail delivery. And service scores for presorted commercial mail exceeded targets in all three service standards. In a presentation to the […]
August 9, 2012 — Today’s figures reflect the congressional role in the Postal Service’s red ink and the need for Congress to address the damage it has done. The USPS reported that $3.1 billion of the $5.2 billion loss resulted from the 2006 congressional mandate that the Postal Service – alone among all agencies and […]
The Postal Inspection Service’s Mail Fraud Team helped arrest and successfully prosecute the mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme ever to go to trial. R. Allen Stanford, former chairman of the Houston-based Stanford Financial Group, was sentenced to 110 years in prison. The jury also awarded the largest forfeiture judgment ever — $330 million — […]
All Corporate Call Center jobs will be turned over to the APWU bargaining unit by May 11, 2013, under the Clerk Craft Jobs MOU in the CBA (pages 375-376). They will become part of the bid cluster for the nearest postal installation. These formerly outsourced duty assignments will be filled with a mix of 70% career […]
With Regrets On this date, August 8, 2012, I delivered to Elizabeth Powell the plaque bestowed upon me by the delegates to the 2010 national convention granting the Emeritus title awarded upon my retirement accompanied by the following letter: —————————————————————————————- Elizabeth Powell Secretary Treasurer American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO Dear Liz, I am returning the plaque awarded […]
Pledges support for customer experience improvement plans Treating customers well is key to revenue generation and keeping USPS competitive, Deputy Postmaster General (DPMG) Ron Stroman told Chicago District employees last week. The DPMG also called for tapping into the “reservoir of trust” USPS has earned as the most trusted government agency to establish a culture […]
NALC President Fredric Rolando was a guest, alongside Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL), on the “Laura Ingraham Show” on Monday, August 6, 2012, for a discussion about the real reasons behind the Postal Service’s financial problems. via NALC President Fredric Rolando and Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL), on the “Laura Ingraham Show”
(MOBILE, Ala.) – A student oriented apartment complex near the University of South Alabama finds itself with no mail service from the United States Postal Service. It’s kind of ironic that the complex would go without such a basic service because Campus Quarters has just about anything and everything a student would want. But no […]