Something is wrong with this picture. The union agrees to reduce wages in the amount of 24% and we declare victory. Over a career, each employee will receive more than $200,000 less in wages and retirement and we call that a win. And what will postal management do with this windfall ($3.4 billion)? Will they […]
In order to understand the massive losses that the new contract will bring if ratified, I have provided a comparison of the current agreement with the proposed agreement. Clint Burelson, President Olympia [Washington] Local APWU
Analysis: House Hearing Sets Troubling Precedent APWU members across the country cheered when President Cliff Guffey stood up for postal workers at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on April 5, but the inquiry into the union’s tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement set a troubling precedent nonetheless. With governors and state […]
With revenues declining within the postal service one would think that customer service would be one of our most prized asset. Why then would a customer service retail supervisor send passport customers 2 to 5 blocks away to make copies of their ID? Why would this supervisor instruct the employees to tell a wheelchair-bound passport […]
Mike Morris, Director Industrial Relations (This article was first published in the April-June 2011 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) We have a tentative agreement! Noah Webster defines “watershed” as “an important point of division or transition between two phases, conditions, etc.; a crucial deciding point, line or factor.” Clearly, this is a watershed […]
Recent editorial on Tentative Agreement by former APWU President Bill Burrus: In closely guarded statements, postal management has struggled to conceal its total satisfaction with the tentative agreement. In a series of public statements, USPS officials have guardly extolled their unanticipated success in transforming APWU represented workers’ assignments and reducing costs (wages) in the staggering […]
Randy Zelnick has created a page on 21st Century Postal Worker for APWU Members against Ratification of the APWU Tentative Contract Agreement. FACTS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU VOTE This page will attempt to provide FULL Disclosure with regard to the proposed language in the Tentative Agreement. There will be little spin and mostly concise language […]
In a contentious hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, APWU President Cliff Guffey gave a vigorous defense of collective bargaining and postal employees. President Cliff Guffey testifies for APWU. [Watch the hearing on C-Span.org] The APWU approached the labor negotiations with one primary test in mind, Guffey said: “What will be […]
After USPS implemented changes to the unpopular Mystery Shopper Program, some postmasters and managers are second-guessing the decision. PR note: Three clerks in my office were disciplined for not asking all the questions under the old format. Although it is agreed that clerks cannot be disciplined for failing a Mystery Shopper Survey, Bay-Valley District management […]
APWU President Cliff Guffey has been asked to testify about the union’s tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, whose powerful chairman has publicly condemned the new agreement and said it is too generous to postal employees. Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) said the April 5 hearing will “examine the […]