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December 21, 2025
Postal Service Issues New Safety Talk on Recognizing Suspicious Materials
The Postal Service has issued a new safety talk concerning Suspicious Mail and Unknown Powders or Substances to be given on Friday, October 6, 2006. This is one of a three-part series to be given each first Friday of Oc...
December 21, 2025
e-Team Report, June 30, 2012
Stop H.R. 2309, Vote NO! TV Ad Editorial on USPS Finances Changing of the Guard
December 21, 2025
Health Insurance: A Must Read
The U.S. Postal Service is plotting to take away our health insurance and replace it with a USPS-sponsored healthcare plan that is outside of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP).
December 21, 2025
Testing Issues Resolved For Motor Vehicle Mechanics
The APWU and USPS have settled several issues involving which exams MVS employees must take to qualify for positions that were upgraded in 2001. The disputes arose when the Postal Service issued new qualification standar...
December 21, 2025
Recognizing, Avoiding Burnout
Burnout is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It can occur when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands.
December 21, 2025
USPS Districts Currently Under Phase 2 Of the National Reassessment Process
The Postal Service continues to implement Phase 2 of the National Reassessment Process (NRP) in USPS Districts across the country. There is no set schedule that establishes a date when a particular District will begin Ph...
December 21, 2025
e-Team Report, Oct. 20, 2011
Make Your Voice Clear to Your Members of Congress — Call Them Today! Senator Mikulski Introduces the “Save Our Postal Workers Jobs Act” Attention Needed to the Hatch Act Study Show Millions Will Be Affected By Changes in...
December 21, 2025
Our Retail Units Are Not for Sale!
(This article appears in the March/April 2014 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) As the old adage says, “the handwriting is on the wall!” The message, “privatize America’s Postal Service,” is in bold print.
December 21, 2025
Dispute Filed Over USPS Failure to Create Bargaining Unit Jobs at Greensboro HRSSC
The APWU has filed a national-level dispute over the Postal Service's failure to create bargaining unit positions at the Human Resources Shared Services Center (HRSSC) in Greensboro, NC. The union contends, among other t...
December 21, 2025
Casual Compliance Reports Archive
This page contains casual compliance reports from pay periods covered by the provisions of the 2000-2006 Collective Bargaining Agreement. See the 2000 contract for the applicable provisions of Article 7.1.B.
December 21, 2025
e-Team Report, Nov. 13, 2012
Lame Duck Congress and the Fiscal Cliff Send Congress a Message Meet the 113th Congress Growing Vacancies on Board of Governors Hurricane Sandy
December 21, 2025
IRS Form 990, 990 EZ, and 990-N Rule Changes
December 21, 2025
House Resolution 111: Leave No Man Behind
As of 2005, approximately 89,000 servicemen remain missing from all American wars since World War II. As unionists, we enforce contracts. It is time as citizens we mandate our government to honor the contract it signed w...
December 21, 2025
Dispute Over USPS FMLA Recertification Requirements Appealed to Arbitration
The APWU has appealed to arbitration a dispute over the Postal Service's policy of requiring employees to automatically submit new medical certification for an FMLA-covered condition simply because the leave year has end...
December 21, 2025
e-Team Report, Oct. 25, 2013
Send Congress a Letter: Don’t Destroy the Postal Service Facility Closures Wreak Havoc for Consumer-to-Business Mailing Lest We Forget – The True Impact of the Shutdown
December 21, 2025
The Boycott is Still On!
In an effort to derail the 'Don't Buy Staples' campaign, which has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers and many major labor organizations, in July Staples and the USPS announced an end to th...
December 21, 2025
Updated list of 8,000 HCR Routes for Possible Conversion to PVS Routes
The USPS recently provided the APWU with a list of approximately 8,000 HCRs (Highway Contract Routes) for review. Unfortunately, management did not mark or identify what was new versus what was sent in a list of 4,000 H...
December 21, 2025
Strengthening Life Skills
At a National Retirees Conference, which was held in October in conjunction with the All-Craft Conference, it was clear that the fight to save the Postal Service, protect postal jobs, stop post office closures, and stop...
December 21, 2025
Dispute: Consecutive Days Off
This grievance protests the establishment of Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) assignments with fewer than two consecutive days off in Mail Processing and in Motor Vehicle assignments in offices of 200-man-years-or-more.
December 21, 2025
Quilting for Wounded Warriors
APWU Auxiliary member Bailey Gocke, age 15, has created a quilt – made of 1,304 squares – to help raise funds for the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team, one of several APWU-sponsored programs to Support Our Troops an...
December 21, 2025
Wall Street Journal Profiles People Affected by Failure to Expand Medicaid…
The Affordable Care Act was meant to cover people in part by expanding Medicaid to workers earning up to the federal poverty line—about $11,670 for a single person; more for families. In addition, people earning as much...
December 21, 2025
Retirement, Early-Outs and the Incentive
Many APWU members are contemplating a momentous decision: whether to end their careers to qualify for a $15,000 incentive. Under the terms of a Sept. 28 agreement negotiated by the APWU, eligible employees who opt for re...
December 21, 2025
Donations Desperately Needed To Provide Assistance
Donations to the Postal Employees’ Relief Fund (PERF) are desperately needed to provide assistance to postal families who have been devastated by Hurricane Sandy and other disasters that occurred this past year.
December 21, 2025
Award on Terminations Due to Hiring Errors
A national arbitration award by Arbitrator Das regarding terminations initiated because of administrative errors in the hiring process discovered after the employees’ probationary periods ended.
December 21, 2025
Returning to the Union in a Non-Retiring Role
I am very pleased to have been appointed to the job of Retirees Director. I sincerely thank President Burrus for this opportunity, and I look forward to continuing the outstanding work of my predecessor, John R. Smith.
December 21, 2025
Efforts to Reduce Ergonomic Injuries Show Positive Results
Postal Service employees are experiencing fewer ergonomic injuries since the formation of an OSHA-organized labor/management partnership in 2003.
December 21, 2025
e-Team Report, June 15, 2012
December 21, 2025
Kids Camp: Where the Impossible Becomes Possible
It’s been a little more than two years since we first introduced you to the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team. All of the players made sacrifices on the battlefield, and as a team they have inspired thousands with th...
December 21, 2025
MVS Appeals Tool and Parts Clerk Case to Arbitration
The MVS Division has appealed to national-level arbitration [PDF] a Step 4 Dispute protesting the Postal Service’s unilateral elimination of the Tool and Parts Clerk position. The union’s 15-Day Statement of Issues and F...
December 21, 2025
Retirement Systems Modernization
Among the most difficult decisions that employees have to make are those regarding retirement. Many APWU members wait too long to gather and study the information needed to make good post-career choices.