APWU Legislative and Political Department Director Myke Reid briefed the union’s local and state presidents Saturday in Washington, DC. The presidents will be visiting the offices of their U.S. senators and representatives on Tuesday, March 8, to discuss efforts to ensure the financial stability of the Postal Service as well as other issues of importance […]
Regarding the Protection of the United States Postal Service WE have a Permit for Monday March 7th from 1:30PM -3:30 PM to demonstrate our concerns: “Regarding the Protection of the United States Postal Service.” We are to be at the Center Portion of the White House Sidewalk at said time. Please show your […]
In an editorial by the Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor they wrote: The postal service has since the 1980s operated as an “independent establishment of the executive branch” and, as such, is expected to be self-supporting. For the most part, it is. But in exchange for its monopoly on first and third-class mail, it is charged […]
An Urgent Video Message From APWU President Cliff Guffey “I want to make sure that every APWU member understands the importance of what is happening in Wisconsin,” says union President Cliff Guffey in a video message. The nurses, teachers, firefighters and police of Wisconsin are fighting for the fundamental right to have a voice at […]
APWU President Cliff Guffey has called the Rank-and-File Bargaining Advisory Committee to Washington, DC for a briefing on contract negotiations, but he said a tentative agreement has not been reached. The panel will meet on March 2 with members of the union’s negotiating team. “We have been meeting with the Postal Service regularly,” Guffey said, […]
Union activists cannot conduct “business as usual,” APWU President Cliff Guffey told national officers at a meeting in Washington this week. With the Postal Service facing a financial crisis and union membership declining, APWU leaders must take the skills they have honed in the grievance procedure and apply them in the legislative arena and other […]
As embattled state and local workers in Wisconsin protest legislation that would attack public employees’ rights to bargain collectively, the APWU urges members to stand in solidarity with those who would be affected by the bill. “We know if they succeed in Wisconsin, we and other workers will be next,” said APWU President Cliff Guffey. […]
Proposals Face an Uphill Battle President Obama’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2012, which was released Feb. 14, “recognizes the seriousness of the Postal Service’s financial condition and proposes beginning steps to address it,” APWU President Cliff Guffey said. The White House budget proposal would return to the Postal Service $6.9 billion the agency overpaid […]
Here is some information about APWU Contract Negotiations that I neglected to post on February 9, 2011. This information is from the Oakland (Calif.) Postal Worker newsletter. “According to Western Region Coordinator Omar Gonzalez, the MVS and Maintenance crafts, to all intents and purposes, have completed negotiations. However, the Clerk craft continues to struggle with […]
The Postal Service notified the APWU on Dec. 23, 2010 [PDF], of plans to remove bullet-resistant glazing from some retail lobbies “in order to improve the customer experience” when a risk analysis supports removal. The APWU opposes these plans, as we outlined in correspondence with the Postal Service dated Jan. 7, 2011 [PDF], and Jan. […]