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August 16, 2025
Starting a Small Business
Starting a business is an exciting proposition, but it’s also an incredibly challenging undertaking.
August 16, 2025
Sexual Harassment
In Fiscal Year 2008, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received approximately 14,000 charges of sexual harassment; nearly 12,000 were resolv...
August 16, 2025
New Toolkit Now Available
I'm pleased to report that a new organizing toolkit is now available to help APWU officers, organizations and members sign-up our co-workers who haven...
August 16, 2025
Vehicle Maintenance Estimated Repair Times Cannot Be Used for Discipline
In a recent national arbitration award, Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled that the Postal Service was not required to provide Article 19 notice to the union...
August 16, 2025
e-Team Report, Jan. 6, 2012
Congress Passes Eight Month Extension PRC Slams Postal Service’s Plans for Retail Closures Senator Akaka Introduces New Legislation President Obama Ma...
August 16, 2025
Dispute Over Reassignments of Partially Recovered Employees
This grievance involves the failure of the USPS to use craft seniority when making wholesale rehab/limited duty assignments after reassessing all of t...
August 16, 2025
Frequently Asked Questions About The Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
EAP is a free, voluntary program available to postal employees and their families. It is intended to provide timely, quality, confidential assistance...
August 16, 2025
Helping a Loved One Overcome Addiction
Helping a loved one who is struggling with alcoholism, drug abuse, an eating disorder, or other destructive behavior can be challenging. Sometimes a d...
August 16, 2025
The State of U.S. Unions
At the end of 2008, union members accounted for 12.4 percent of employed wage-and-salary workers, according to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Lab...
August 16, 2025
Convention Recognizes Value of Retirees
With one exciting vote in Detroit in 1994, delegates to the 12th Biennial Convention of the American Postal Workers Union unanimously declared that re...
August 16, 2025
e-Team Report, Aug. 19, 2011
Is a Postal Service Shutdown Less Than a Year Away if Legislative Changes Are Not Made? The Positive Influence of the Postal Service over the Years St...
August 16, 2025
Dispute Over Data Security Breaches/Missing USPS Laptops Appealed to Arbitration
The APWU has appealed to national-level arbitration a dispute over the Postal Service's security breaches of sensitive postal employee data resulting...
August 16, 2025
Maintenance Wins Significant Award
Recently Arbitrator Arthur T. Voss sustained the union’s grievance in Case #E10T-4E-C 11388721 , known as the Western Area Lock case or the Diebold ca...
August 16, 2025
Fast Food Favorites
$10 gift cards to McDonald’s, Burger King, Church’s Chicken, Cinnabon, Nathan’s Famous, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Subway and Taco Bell are an affordable w...
August 16, 2025
‘We Hope You Can Make Headway’
Soon after being interviewed on The Ed Show on MSNBC in December, I received an email from a cousin I don’t see very often who had seen the TV segment...
August 16, 2025
Management Must Convert PTFs
Managers who are relying on an alleged hiring freeze to justify their refusal to convert MVS part-time flexible employees to full-time are in violatio...
August 16, 2025
Help Save Our Benefits!
This summer, three federal programs reached important milestones: The 45th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid was on July 30, and the 75th anniversa...
August 16, 2025
Financial Aid for Students
As the cost of college continues to escalate, many parents find that they do not have the funds or resources needed to assure that their children can...
August 16, 2025
e-Team Report, Jan. 4, 2013
Out With the 112th Congress In With the 113th Congress New Congress, New Subcommittee Chair Speaker Vote
August 16, 2025
Dispute Initiated Over 60 Day Excessing Notice to Employees
The union recently intiated a national dispute over management's failure to adhere to an agreement between the parties that when employees are excesse...
August 16, 2025
Attend a Pre-Convention Workshop
The Research & Education Department is proud to announce that the APWU is sponsoring its 13th Educational Conference, a National Convention event that...
August 16, 2025
Personal Belongings During Interim Trips for Off-Site Training
A Step 4 agreement dated March 11, 2005, between the APWU and the USPS addresses the right of postal employees who are engaged in off-site training to...
August 16, 2025
‘Closures’ Report Reveals Inconsistencies
Call it what you will, shuttering retail Postal Service facilities reduces public service, and the public has been watching. Late last year, the Congr...
August 16, 2025
Union Arbitrates PVS To HCR Conversion
The APWU’s position has consistently been that mode conversions have a significant impact on the bargaining unit. As such, the USPS must adhere to Art...
August 16, 2025
Retirees: Join the Legislative Fight!
With postal workers’ pensions and hard-earned benefits in jeopardy, it has never been more crucial for APWU retirees to become actively involved in th...
August 16, 2025
News for Annuitants
The Retirees Department often is asked about deferred retirement for workers who are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System, the counterpa...
August 16, 2025
Pregnancy Discrimination
In 2005, approximately 4,500 charges of pregnancy-based discrimination were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC resolved...
August 16, 2025
e-Team Report, Dec. 6, 2013
The Staples Deal: Postal Service Moves to Privatize Mail Service Letter Carrier Killed After Postal Cuts Create Unsafe Working Conditions APWU Brings...
August 16, 2025
Arbitrator Rules on USPS Refusal to Compensate Employees for Time Spent on a USPS-provided shuttle
In a decision [PDF] dated Aug. 30, Arbitrator Shyam Das denied the union’s grievance protesting management’s refusal to compensate employees for time...
August 16, 2025
Quality Home Care and Public Sector Unions at Risk in Supreme Court Case
In the coming weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a ruling in Harris v. Quinn, a case involving the payment of union dues by public-sector home h...