According to Lisa Herrera, Field Representative, East Bay Area Local #47 (California) The Bay Valley District has reduce the number of Post Office Station closures/consolidations. It was reported two (2) offices were recommended for closures (Berkeley- Park Station & Richmond- Station A). Studies are still being conducted …for Berkeley-Landscape, Fremont-Niles and Hayward- Bradford Stations. Concord and […]
APWU News The campaign to win sick-leave credit for workers who retire under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) got a big boost this week when it was included in a compromise version of the 2010 Defense Authorization bill. Employees covered by the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) already enjoy the benefit. The bill was […]
Save $356,540- Lose $10,000,000 As our members are painfully aware the District is considering closing several stations and branches in our Local’s jurisdiction. This is part of the Postal Service’s plans to close or “consolidate” thousands of stations throughout the country. Although the number of such stations currently under review was reduced to 413 recently, […]
APWU Embraces Change, APWU President Declares APWU News Calling the union’s current circumstances “the best of times, and the worst of times,” APWU President William Burrus outlined an ambitious agenda for the union’s future in a speech to the All-Craft Conference in Las Vegas on Sept. 30. Urging conference participants to meet the daunting challenges facing […]
President Burrus announced he will retire at the end of his term in 2010. The delegates at the All- Craft Conference in Las Vegas, NV gave him a standing ovation which brought tears to his eyes. He also asked for a per capita national dues increase of $1 next year to help offset decreases in […]
APWU News The union has received a number of inquiries recently seeking clarification about whether employees who retire on disability are eligible for the incentive negotiated by the APWU, President William Burrus said. “The agreement does not exclude such employees,” he noted. “The Memorandum of Understanding provides for an incentive of $15,000 for employees who retire […]
Burrus Update 15-2009, Sept. 22, 2009 The union has received inquiries about the possibility that some applicants for the $15,000 retirement/separation incentive may be excluded because the agreement negotiated by the union limits the number of recipients to 30,000. This concern is especially troubling for employees applying for Voluntary Early Retirement (VER), because the right […]
APWU News The APWU and Postal Service reached a settlement [PDF] on Sept. 21 reaffirming management’s responsibility to provide individual retirement counseling to APWU-represented employees. In 2007, the Postal Service centralized its retirement counseling process, with specialists at the Human Resources Shared Services Center (HRSSC) providing counseling, primarily by phone. Management said the change was […]
APWU News The House of Representatives voted 388-32 on Sept. 15 to approve a measure that would provide the Postal Service relief for one year from a requirement to prefund retiree healthcare benefits from its operating budget. APWU President William Burrus praised the vote on H.R. 22, and urged the Senate to move quickly to […]
Burrus Update Advocates of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) — legislation that has brought the USPS to the brink of insolvency — are now asserting that labor agreements are a major contributor to the agency’s expected deficit of $7 billion in Fiscal Year 2009. Such a suggestion would be laughable if the stakes […]