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Management Reducing Package Presort Discounts

June 14, 2024
The Postal Service is in the early stages of eliminating the deepest of several discounts where package consolidators sort to the Destination Delivery Units (DDUs) and five-digit presort.

Industrial Relations Director Charlie Cash Announces 2025 Annual Leave Exchange and Carryover MOUs

June 13, 2024
Industrial Relations Director Charlie Cash Announces 2025 Annual Leave Exchange and Carryover MOUs

Still in the Struggle

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Central Regional Coordinator Sharyn M. Stone Postal management’s massive violation of Article 12 continues to have a significant impacton our...

Labor Distribution Codes

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Maintenance Craft Directors  When we punch into work, the USPS time-keeping system tracks our workhours based on the operation we badge onto...

Sept. 1 and Where is the Work?

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Motor Vehicle Service Craft Directors  On August 18, 2016, Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled in case Q06C-4Q-C 11182451 that the Postal Service had...

Price Cap's Significant Impact on the Clerk Craft

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Clerk Craft Directors  Any day now, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) will be making a decision on the postage price cap that will...

Single-Payer Health Care - Its Time Has Come

November 1, 2017
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The following is an op-ed by President Mark Dimondstein that originally appeared in Cleveland's The Plain Dealer on Sept. 20. Congress is back...

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