USPS Is Taking No Prisoners in Effort to Save Service? Sam Wood, APWU President, Southwest Florida Area Local via 21st Century Postal Worker: During a meeting this evening with Clerks at the Fort Myers P&DC (concerning detailing Clerks to the Carrier Craft) which ended at about 6:40pm eastern time, USPS Labor Representative Joe Homolash from […]
According to Randy Zelznick, owner of 21st Century Postal Worker and member of the APWU Philadelphia, PA local …the FBI was at the Local’s Union Hall and there were charges filed by President Casselli concerning theft and breaking and entering. There are several more charges cross filed and an election appeal. We don’t have all […]
Reader: “An Agreement For Our Times” is beginning to look not so hot. The APWU filed four national-level disputes on July 12, based on reports we received from locals and National Business Agents that management has been violating provisions of the 2010-2015 National Agreement. Discussions are ongoing at the national level to resolve these issues; […]
The postal reform bill (H.R. 2309) introduced last month by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has a hidden agenda, according to an analysis by the Center for American Progress (CAP): To eliminate collective bargaining for postal employees. “The bill closely follows the strategy of Republican governors who are using budget problems to attack collective bargaining rights […]
The APWU has launched the second phase of its advertising campaign with a radio spot, President Cliff Guffey has announced. The radio ad began airing July 18 and will run for three weeks on news and/or talk stations in Washington DC and other markets. The radio spot compliments a television ad that began airing on […]
Newly elected Philadelphia, PA President allegedly locks out other local officers and prevents them from representing members. The National American Postal Workers Union has suspended and placed into trusteeship the Philadelphia, PA -one of it’s largest local unions- according to a notice published by 21st Century Postal Worker, . The suspension comes less than one […]
Former APWU President William Burrus sent the following letter to Rep. Darrell Issa: Congressman Darrell Issa Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 2157 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20015-6143 Mr. Chairman, I am William Burrus, President Emeritus of the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO and I take strong exception to your letter of July […]
“USPS’s legal constraints, along with the value of its implicit subsidies, and concludes that the USPS’s unique legal status likely places it at a net competitive disadvantage relative to private carriers.” source: Federal Trade Commission 2007 report Fox News in an article on Congressman Darrell Issa’s letter to the American Postal Workers’ Union President Cliff […]
WASHINGTON– Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa in a letter to the American Postal Worker Union (APWU) asks the union to cancel a misleading ad campaign that falsely claims the United States Postal Service (USPS) does not receive taxpayer support when it does, in fact, receive hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer […]
The APWU will launch a television ad campaign on July 11, with spots airing on CNN, MSNBC, and FOX, President Cliff Guffey has announced.