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September 17, 2025
Award on Inspection of Vehicles in Non-Public Areas of Postal Property
Arbitrator Linda Byars denied the APWU's grievance challenging the Postal Service's regulations and implementing instructions for the administrative i...
September 17, 2025
Frequently Asked Questions
In the March-April edition, I addressed a number of questions asked by APWU retirees. Here are several more.
September 17, 2025
OSHA Releases Ergonomic Strategic Partnership Report for Denver P&DC
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Strategic Partnership Program has released their Ergonomic Verification Report for the...
September 17, 2025
e-Team Report, March 23, 2012
Postal Reform Bill on Senate Floor Next Week Sen. Mikulski Puts Hold on Postal Reform Bill Sen. Collins Criticizes USPS Proposed Cuts USPS Market Rese...
September 17, 2025
Building a Successful Coalition
A coalition is an alliance of individuals or groups that join forces for a common purpose. Forming a coalition allows participants to combine their re...
September 17, 2025
USPS Must Maintain All Factory Equipment, Including Air Conditioning
An e-mail from USPS headquarters dated Oct. 3, 2001, instructs managers in the field that former Emery vehicles incorporated into the postal fleet are...
September 17, 2025
Legislative Matters
In recent months, two congressional subcommittees held hearings on an issue of utmost concern to retirees — legislation that would repeal provisions o...
September 17, 2025
Preference-Eligible Employees Should Look to the CBA
Federal law grants preference-eligible employees specific protection from Reductions in Force (RIFs), and gives them the right to appeal to the Merit...
September 17, 2025
e-Team Report, Sept. 9, 2011
Sept. 27 Day of Action President Guffey Testifies Before Senate Committee Proposed Postal Service Layoffs Would Significantly Impact Minorities, Vete...
September 17, 2025
The Long and Winding Road to Real Reform
Are you ready for a busy summer? I hope so, because it looks like APWU members will need to spend much of the season persuading members of Congress th...
September 17, 2025
Sexual Harassment (Part 2)
Employees who are victims of sexual harassment often fail to report it because they are embarrassed and think nothing will be done to stop it. They fe...
September 17, 2025
For FECA Employees:
The percentage increase in the December CPI-W index from year to year determines the FECA COLA increase. The 2014 FECA COLA will be 1.5% effective Ma...
September 17, 2025
e-Team Report, May 3, 2013
APWU encourages continued support for S. 316/ H.R. 630 Sign the ‘We The People’ petition for a White House response on saving the Postal Service Feder...
September 17, 2025
Can Level 4 Post Office Clerks Work in Your Office?
The position description for the Level 4 Post Office Clerk [PDF] limits its use to Post Offices with fewer than 190 revenue units annually. The Level...
September 17, 2025
Fighting to Protect Our Future
I would like to thank the members of the APWU for electing me the Executive Vice President of the American Postal Workers Union. It is truly an honor....
September 17, 2025
Maximization Dispute Appealed to Arbitration
The APWU has appealed to national-level arbitration a dispute over whether the Postal Service is obligated under Article 7.3.B to maximize the number...
September 17, 2025
e-Team Report, Sept. 13, 2013
Senate Committee to Address Postal Reform Federal Unions Protest Proposal to Pull Postal Workers From Federal Employee Health Benefit Program AFL-CIO...
September 17, 2025
Consolidation: Fighting Back
Following the consolidation of the Middlesex-Essex (MA) Processing & Distribution Center with the Boston plant in 2013, the national APWU and the Bost...
September 17, 2025
Personal Messages
You can download and print the APWU Supports Our Troops postcard to accompany your care package. For security reasons, personal messages cannot be enc...
September 17, 2025
Postal Reform – At the 11th Hour
With the expiration of a moratorium on the consolidation and closure of mail processing plants and post offices approaching, there has been a tremendo...
September 17, 2025
Proposed Revisions to F-1, Section 473.12, Rescinded
This settlement (case #Q94C4QC96092498) rescinds a proposed revision to Handbook F-1 (Accounting Procedures) Section 473.12 which would have provided...
September 17, 2025
Questions Often Asked About Retirement Checks
It's not unusual for the Retirees Department to get phone calls concerning what to do about late, lost or stolen annuity checks. The following summari...
September 17, 2025
Paul Ryan’s April Fools’ Day Budget Would Cut Medicare Dramatically
On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released another Republican budget proposal - this one for the 2015 fiscal year - that wo...
September 17, 2025
Fewer Union Members Means Lower Pay for All
In the decades after World War II, the labor movement greatly improved pay, benefits and working conditions not just for unionized workplaces, but for...
September 17, 2025
Arbitrator Orders USPS to Revise Certain FMLA Form Letters
In a recent national-level arbitration award, arbitrator Dennis Nolan ruled that certain form letters that the Postal Service planned to use when empl...
September 17, 2025
A Preventable Cancer
September is “Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month,” and women are strongly urged to get screened for the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is the cau...
September 17, 2025
Safety ‘Happy Talk’ Just Isn’t Enough
Postal officials frequently brag about their commitment to workers’ safety, but their actions don’t always line up with the “happy talk.”
September 17, 2025
e-Team Report, March 16, 2012
APWU Airs New Round of Television Ads Transportation in the House AFL-CIO Denounces State Voter ID Laws
September 17, 2025
For Employees Covered by the National Agreement:
September 17, 2025
Q&A on PVS Drivers Program MOU
The APWU and USPS agreed on Feb. 4, 2010, to a series of Questions and Answers [PDF] regarding the Jan. 15, 2009, Memorandum of Understanding establis...