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Postal Nurses Achieve Raises, Job Security:
An arbitration panel finalized a five-year contract for postal nurses
on April 28 — the first since the National Postal Professional Nurses
merged with the APWU. The ruling came more than 20 months after the
nurses’ independent
Collective Bargaining Agreement with the USPS expired. (From the July/August
2009 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
DHL Ordered to Stop Interfering in Ohio:
An NLRB Administrative Law Judge has ruled that DHL Express of Wilmington,
OH, is guilty of the unfair labor practice charges lodged against
the global-delivery company by the APWU late last year. (From the September/October
2007 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)
Forging the Future Through Organizing:
Saying that the APWU’s future depends on building membership, More than 200 local union leaders, national officers and members gathered in Minneapolis in January for a three-day national organizing conference. (From the March/April 2007 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)
Weather or Not, Detroit APWU Stands Firm: APWU members faced with the loss of their jobs took a few hours off work and several miles of nasty wintry roads to let Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) know that something wasn't right with the plan to close down a Detroit-area Mail Transport Equipment Service Center. (Excerpt from the May/June 2004 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)
Our Battle in the Private Sector: APWU-represented private-sector mail-haul drivers in Jacksonville (FL), Greensboro (NC), Des Moines, Memphis, and Kansas City (KS), are facing intense union-busting activities in their fights for decent contracts. (From the November/December 2003 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)
Contract Extensions for OS and IS/ASC Workers: In early January, APWU President William Burrus continued talks with the Postal Service about extending the Operating Services and Information Systems/Accounting Service Center workers' bargaining agreements an additional year. The APWU proposal is to extend the current four-year OS agreement to Nov. 20, 2005, and the current four-year IS/ASC agreement to Jan. 20, 2006. (Excerpt from the March/April 2003 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)
Support Services Unit Ratifies Pact: APWU members in the Support Services Division's biggest bargaining unit again are working under a contract. The Information Systems/Accounting Services Center contract was ratified Aug. 23, with 90 percent of the APWU members who took part in the balloting voting in favor of the four-year agreement. (From the September/October 2002 American Postal Worker magazine)
