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November 23, 2010
OSHA Slams Postal Service For Safety Violations in Bluefield, WV
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the Postal Service $287,000 for willful electrical safety violations at a mail processi...
October 18, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations in Columbus, OH
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the USPS $210,000 for willfully exposing employees to electrical safety hazards at the...
October 15, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations in West Virginia
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the USPS $212,500 for willfully exposing employees to electrical safety hazards at the...
September 3, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations in Binghamton, NY
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the USPS $8,000 for serious safety hazards at a Binghamton, NY postal facility.
September 1, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations at Cincinnati BMC
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the Postal Service $210,000 for willfully exposing employees to electrical safety hazar...
August 27, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations at Kansas City BMC
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued the Postal Service $191,000 in fines for exposing employees to serious and repeat safe...
August 21, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations in Portsmouth, NH
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) slammed the Postal Service with $350,000 in fines for exposing employees to electrical safety...
August 19, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations in Dayton, OH
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the USPS $225,000 for willfully exposing employees to electrical hazards at the Dayton,...
August 12, 2010
Safety and Health Resource Kit Now Online
(08/10/10) The APWU Safety and Health Resource Kit has been updated and posted on the APWU Web site. The kit is a resource designed to assist APWU off...
August 6, 2010
Department of Labor Files Motion To Consolidate USPS Electrical Safety Charges
The Department of Labor (DOL) is seeking to consolidate complaints regarding the Postal Service’s ongoing and systemic violations of safe electrical w...
August 3, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations in Boston
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued the Postal Service nine “willful and serious” safety violations for exposing employees...
July 30, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations at Vermont P&DC
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) slammed the Postal Service with $420,000 in fines for willingly exposing employees to electri...
July 8, 2010
Department of Labor Safety Complaint Underscores Widespread, Systemic Violations
The Department of Labor filed a complaint against the Postal Service on July 6 for ongoing and systemic violations of safe electrical work practices,...
July 7, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations at Southern MD P&DC
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited the USPS for nine “willful and serious” safety violations at the Southern MD Processing...
June 29, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS for Safety Violations at Minneapolis/St. Paul NDC
Adding to the growing number of safety citations issued to the Postal Service in recent weeks, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA...
June 29, 2010
USPS Cited for Safety Violations At Southern Maine P&DC
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited the USPS for “willful and repeat” safety violations at the Southern Maine Processing an...
June 28, 2010
USPS Cited for Violations in Portland, OR
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited the USPS for “willful and serious” safety violations at the Portland, OR Processing and...
June 16, 2010
OSHA Cites USPS For Safety Violations in Baton Rouge
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited the USPS for safety violations at the Baton Rouge (LA) Processing and Distribution Cent...
June 10, 2010
USPS Charged with Seven Violations in Pittsburgh
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued the USPS its sixth set of workplace safety citations on June 8, charging the Postal Se...
June 5, 2010
USPS Cited for Safety Violations in Philadelphia
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) issued the USPS its fifth set of safety citations on June 3, charging the Postal Service with...
June 4, 2010
USPS Cited for Fourth Set of Safety Violations
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) charged the Postal Service with five “willful” safety violations at the Philadelphia Bulk Mai...
May 11, 2010
USPS Cited for Third Set Of Safety Violations in One Week
Issuing its third set of citations in less than a week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) charged the USPS with five counts of...
May 5, 2010
OSHA Cites USPS for Safety Violations in Denver
Five days after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued citations and fines of more than a half-million dollars to the Postal...
May 3, 2010
OSHA Cites USPS for ‘Willful’ Safety Violations
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has charged the USPS in Providence, RI with 12 willful and serious safety violations, and ord...
April 9, 2010
APWU Urges Locals to File OSHA Complaints Over Electrical Hazards
The APWU has sent a letter to local presidents in regard to electrical hazards related to the Postal Service's failure to comply with OSHA Subpart S E...
March 23, 2010
A Historic Win for Working People
“After a century of struggle and more than a year of heated debate, President Barack Obama has signed into law sweeping healthcare reform that represe...
February 1, 2010
Union Urges Locals to File OSHA Complaints On Dangerous Instructions for Electrical Work
The APWU is urging local unions to file complaints with OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, following the publication by the Post...
January 1, 2010
OSHA Standards
Safety standards published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) require employers to provide appropriate electrical protective...
March 31, 2009
Locals Urged to File OSHA Complaints on DBCSs
The APWU is urging locals to file OSHA complaints over identified ergonomic hazards on Delivery Bar Code Sorter machines. In a letter to local preside...
April 22, 2008
Workers Memorial Day
On April 28 each year, the labor movement observes Workers Memorial Day to commemorate workers who have been killed or injured on the job, and to rene...