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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

Bonding and Tax Issues for Local Unions

July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Effective July 1, 2022, local affiliates have a new three (3) year term of bond coverage, which will expire June 30, 2025. National APWU provides...

What Is There To Hide?

July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In May 2022, the USPS Atlantic and Southern Area notified the Regional Union Leadership and the Management Associations that Postal Service HQ was...

Moral March Unites Labor & Civil Rights Movements

July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On June 18th, just before the Juneteenth holiday, The Poor People’s Campaign held the “Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral...

Q&A For Clerks on New Collective Bargaining Agreement

July 13, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) 1. Question: Does a Postal Support Employee (PSE) hired in an Administrative Post Office (APO), that allows for the 24-month automatic conversion to...

The PSRA and Postal Retirees

July 12, 2022
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2022 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) This time of the year we recognize the anniversary of Medicare, signed into law in July 1965 and Social Security, created in August 1935. We...

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