Perhaps it is time for the Postal Service to consider offering a healthy incentive for APWU represented employees to retire. The wage difference between a Grade 6 Step 0 employee and a newly hired replacement is $18,000 per year ($53,102 vs. $35,182) so for every 1000 employees replaced, the Postal Service saves 18 million dollars […]
APWU Web News Article 066-2011, June 1, 2011 APWU President Cliff Guffey is encouraging postal workers who have served in the armed forces to reach out to fellow veterans and encourage them to take advantage of new hiring opportunities. “The APWU negotiated a Collective Bargaining Agreement that will create thousands of new employment opportunities for […]
Press Release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District Of Alabama June 1, 2011 BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today indicted a Huntsville man for embezzling from the America Postal Workers Union while he was president of a union local in Madison, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance. The one-count indictment filed in U.S. […]
From Gary Kloepfer. Assistant Director, American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO This is a summary of Regular Panel Arbitrator Leroy R. Bartman in case H00T-1H-C-03081013 regarding the Postal Service’s purchase of a Low Cost Tray Sorter which was installed by the manufacturer. The arbitrator ruled the Postal Service violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement and ordered the […]
A correction has been made to the Maintenance Craft Jobs Memorandum of Understanding that appears on page 181 of the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement. Click here for a corrected copy of the contract [PDF]. The correction is as follows: Page 181 — Maintenance Craft Jobs MOU — Paragraph c. has revised language. (Shown in bold […]
Extends Flexibility to Adjust to America’s Changing Mailing Trends WASHINGTON — It’s official. The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) AFL-CIO ratified March 14 tentative labor contract agreement with the U.S. Postal Service that will save the nation’s mail system $3.8 billion over the four and a half year life of the contract that becomes effective […]
APWU Web News Article 062-2011, May 23, 2011 APWU President Cliff Guffey and Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe have signed the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement. Their signatures formalize the new contract, which was ratified by APWU members on May 11. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and APWU President Cliff Guffey sign the union’s 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement […]
The new APWU and USPS collective bargaining agreement will be signed on Monday, May 23rd. Below is a timeline of effective dates (subject to change). Also “The APWU Industrial Relations Department has produced a Guide to Local Negotiations that contains a wealth of information to assist locals in bargaining over Local Memorandums of Understanding (LMOUs) […]
APWU Web News Article 060-2011, May 18, 2011 Details of the APWU contract ratification vote are now available, including a local-by-local tally. The results [PDF] are shown alphabetically by state, with locals in each state listed alphabetically as well. The local results were provided by the American Arbitration Association, which conducted the balloting under the […]
APWU Web News Article 058-2011, May 18, 2011 In the wake of the ratification of the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement, the APWU and USPS have agreed to a timeline for local negotiations, Director of Industrial Relations Mike Morris, has announced. Local unions or management can open bargaining over changes to local agreements, in accordance with […]