APWU News The House of Representatives approved legislation on April 1 that would give employees covered by the Federal Employees’ Retirement System (FERS) credit for unused sick leave when calculating their retirement benefits. The Federal Retirement Reform Act of 2009 (H.R. 1804), introduced by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY), was approved […]
APWU News Postal workers won an important legal victory March 30, when a district court judge upheld the right of the APWU and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) to pursue a lawsuit against the USPS and the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for “widespread and systematic intrusions” into the medical records […]
APWU News Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) introduced legislation in the House of Representatives on March 24 that would restrict USPS subcontracting. The Mail Protection Act (H.R. 1686), which is backed by the APWU, is modeled on a bill the Congressman introduced in November 2007 (H.R. 4236). The bill would require the Postal Service to bargain with […]
By Omar M. Gonzalez, APWU Western Region Coordinator The PMG plans to cut 100,000,000 work hours in 2009 so Area and District managers are running amuck with their so called “Migration Plans.” Throughout the United States, from Puerto Rico to Hawaii (and all parts in between) management has declared an excess of postal employees and […]
APWU News USPS Releases VERA Info, Fails to Notify Union Although the Postal Service has failed to provide official notice to the union as of March 27, management has posted information about Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) on its employee Web site, LiteBlue. According to the posting, VER will be offered to all eligible employees except […]
Arbitrator Das, ruling in an NALC grievance in which the APWU intervened, ordered the Postal Service to rescind changes agreed to by the APWU and the USPS in a 2006 MOU “Re: Limited Duty and Rehabilitation Assignments Within APWU Crafts Involving Workers from Other Crafts.” The MOU provided that the reassignment or reemployment of an […]
The American Postal Workers Union Local in Oakland, California via the following petition is urging Congress to investigate the Postal Service’s business practices : The Honorable Senator Diane Feinstein United States Senate 331 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Senator Barbara Boxer United States Senate 112 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 […]
Disputes Over Contract Postal Units Filed, Appealed to Arbitration The APWU has initiated one dispute, and appealed another to national arbitration, over whether a contract postal unit (CPU) may exist in a facility when the Postal Service has use of the property by consignment or other special agreement, for example, on military bases, in national […]
APWU News Management to Revamp BMC Network The Postal Service has abandoned plans to outsource the work performed at 21 Bulk Mail Centers, and instead will revamp the BMC network, the USPS Senior Vice President for Operations told the APWU on March 10. The change in strategy was prompted by the nation’s financial crisis and the subsequent […]
On March 6, 2009, the American Postal Workers Union, Detroit District Area Local, AFL-CIO filed a complaint against the U.S. Postal Service in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. After reading the complaint it appears that local management did not get the PMG Potter memo on honoring the contract. Read on… Excerpts […]