APWU Sues USPS, Advisory Committee For Conducting Policy-Making in Secret The APWU, together with an organization representing a coalition of consumers and nonprofit mailers, has filed a suit challenging secret policy-making by a Postal Service advisory committee. The panel, the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee, is made up of trade associations that represent large business mailers. […]
APWU News APWU President William Burrus has asked the Wachovia Bank Corp. to stop airing a television commercial which strongly suggests that home mail delivery is the primary cause of identity theft. “The 700,000 employees who operate the most efficient, reliable and cost-effective mail service in the world object to your characterization,” Burrus wrote in […]
by APWU President William Burrus on Contracting Out Mail Delivery My testimony last month [PDF] before the House Oversight and Reform Committee revealed differences of opinion between the APWU on the one hand and the other postal unions and management associations on the other, regarding the issue of congressional interference in collective bargaining. The long-standing APWU […]
“The Greater Seattle Local, American Postal Workers Union recently called upon Congressional Representatives Jim McDermott [1] (D-WA-7), Jay Inslee [2] (D-WA-1), Adam Smith [3] (D-WA-9), Dave Reichert [4] (R-WA-8), Rick Larsen [5] (R-WA-2) and Norm Dicks [6] (D-WA-6) to institute an impeachment investigation in the House of Representatives into the actions of Bush and Cheney, […]
Termination of AMPs Is Good News For Northern Michigan, Southern Texas APWU News – May 17, 2007 The APWU has been notified that studies of the consolidation of some mail-processing operations at the Gaylord (MI) Main Post Office and at Beaumont (TX) P&DF have been brought to a close and the proposed consolidations will not take […]
Update from American Postal Workers’ Union President William Burrus The increase in postage rates that took effect May 14 has been the subject of numerous news stories purporting to analyze the size of the increase and speculating about the future role of hard-copy communication. In general, these reports seem to accept the fact that inflation […]
by Jim Burke, APWU Eastern Region Coordinator A problem that continues to be a plague on the Postal Service workplace is abusive supervisors. There are certain supervisors who simply cannot manage to treat employees with dignity and respect. And there are other supervisors — including many good ones — who are victims of the system: […]
by Greg Bell APWU Industrial Relations Director In the March/April 2006 issue of the American Postal Worker, I wrote about a 2003 court decision that overturned the federal government’s longstanding practice of charging employees “military leave” for non-workdays spent training in the armed forces. The Postal Service, however, had taken the position that the court […]
From PostalReporter reader: In his April 17th testimony to Congress, President Burrus asked for a more appropriate image on a commemorative stamp honoring slaves. see testimony-PDF What do your readers think? Can they come up with a more appropriate image? Excerpt from Burrus testimony For many years, I have been advocating that the Postal Service […]
In an article that appeared in the March/April 2007 issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine, National President William Burrus stated that despite successes, nothing that the APWU has done has significantly reduced the unacceptable high percentage of workers who continue to receive the benefits of union efforts but refuse to join the organization. He […]