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August 18, 2025
Protect Your FMLA and USERRA Rights
The APWU has received complaints from union members recently of instances where the Postal Service is violating their rights under federal law, most n...
August 18, 2025
Make a Donation Today!
All monetary donations should be made payable to APWU (Supports Our Troops and Veterans) — indicate in the memo on your check or money order which Sup...
August 18, 2025
PSE Pay, Sunday Premium
For many years part-time flexibles ( PTFS ) have questioned why their overtime rates of pay were calculated differently than full-time employees. Now...
August 18, 2025
Sunday Premium Settlement
A pre-arbitration settlement (USPS #Q98C-4Q-C 00165413 and Q98C-4Q-C 00152463) reversing changes to the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) that...
August 18, 2025
Premium Conversion Legislation for Retirees
On July 16 - more than three years after the legislation was first introduced - the House Civil Service and Agency Reorganization Subcommittee approve...
August 18, 2025
Another Survey Suggests U.S. Middle Class is Falling Behind
While income gains for the richest Americans are outpacing their global peers, The New York Times reports that lower- and middle- income tiers in othe...
August 18, 2025
Survey Says: Most Americans Oppose Plant Closures
I have always been skeptical of surveys conducted by the Postal Service, because they seem to be designed to generate responses that would justify cut...
August 18, 2025
Award on Casuals Working Tour Two
In a national-level award, Arbitrator Shyam Das has ruled that Tour 1 casuals may continue to work past 5 a.m., concluding that the intent of the 2006...
August 18, 2025
Half-Mile Move Prompts DHL Demand: ‘Re-Apply for Your Job
Shipping giant DHL is closing down a processing center near Allentown, PA, and opening a new facility, also near Allentown, PA. In fact, the two workp...
August 18, 2025
2012 Death on the Job Report
The AFL-CIO Safety and Health Department released its 2012 Death on the Job Report May 2, 2012. The final fatality data reported 4,690 fatal work inju...
August 18, 2025
e-Team Report, March 2, 2012
Cutbacks at the U.S. Postal Service Kicking the Transportation Bill Down the Road If Postal Service Ax Delivery Standards, Will Elections Suffer?
August 18, 2025
‘Stop Staples’ Campaign Gets Off to a Strong Start
A trial program that put postal counters in 82 Staples stores — staffed with low-paid, non-union Staples employees — is a ‘direct assault on postal jo...
August 18, 2025
DOT Tractor-Trailer Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy
USPS employees who operate tractor-trailers and 7-ton and 9-ton trucks, as well as mechanics who repair them, fall under the jurisdiction of the Depar...
August 18, 2025
EEOC Upholds Class Action
On May 30, 2008, in the case of Sandra McConnell et al v. United States Postal Service, an Administrative Judge (AJ) for the Equal Employment Opportun...
August 18, 2025
USPS Unveils Prescription Drug Card for Workplace Injuries
The USPS has announced a voluntary prescription drug card program for employees who suffer workplace injuries or illnesses. According to the Postal Se...
August 18, 2025
e-Team Report, July 8, 2011
APWU to Launch TV Ad Campaign to Correct Deception about need for USPS “Bailout” along with Kicking Off Organizing Drive H.R. 1351 Cosponsor List Cont...
August 18, 2025
Don’t Outsource Postal Services
(Op ed by APWU President Mark Dimondstein in the Albuquerque Journal) As the United States Postal Service confronts a changing future, those of us wh...
August 18, 2025
Telemarketing Scam Protection
Consumers lose billions of dollars a year to telemarketing fraud. That’s why the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) encourages you to be skeptical about p...
August 18, 2025
Dispute Initiated Over New Electronic Form For Reporting Accidents
The Postal Service's improper creation, handling and utilization of a new electronic PS Form 1769 for reporting accidents is the subject of a recently...
August 18, 2025
e-Team Report, Oct. 11, 2013
John Marcotte Elected Legislative & Political Director Representatives Co-Sponsor Resolution Supporting Federal Workers What do the Government Shutdo...
August 18, 2025
A Formula for Success
Effective Chapters + More Members = Strength in Numbers to Protect Benefits.
August 18, 2025
Stop the Cycle of Violence!
Many people believe that domestic violence is a private matter, but it’s not. It is a critical problem that affects us all. Domestic violence occurs i...
August 18, 2025
Dispute Initiated Over Revisions to Contract Postal Unit Handbook
The Union has initiated a national dispute over the issuance of a new Publication 156, "Postal Employees Guide to Contract Postal Units", that replace...
August 18, 2025
e-Team Report, Jan. 29, 2014
Emergency Alert: Call Your Senator No Later Than Tuesday, Feb. 4th, 2014!
August 18, 2025
PMG’s Demands: Bad for Postal Workers
The Postmaster General and the USPS are lobbying Congress. What are they asking legislators to do? Reduce letter delivery to five days per week; Deny...
August 18, 2025
Host Fundraiser Events and Involve The Membership
In addition to approved general treasury donations, many APWU organizations have also taken the initiative to host fundraising events to support APWU...
August 18, 2025
More on New FECA Regulations
The March-April 2012 issue of The American Postal Worker addressed significant changes to the administrative policies of the Federal Employees’ Compe...
August 18, 2025
BQnet Settlement
This settlement concerns the Postal Service’s creation of an electronic database to replace the Handbook EL-303, “Qualification Standards – Bargaining...
August 18, 2025
Retiring? Get Counseling From the Postal Service
Postal workers are retiring in greater numbers now than at any time in history.
August 18, 2025
Barbara Easterling, Ruben Burks Re-elected as Leaders of the Alliance
The Alliance’s 2014 national convention took place in Las Vegas, Nevada on Monday through Thursday of this week. On Tuesday, Barbara J. Easterling, w...