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President Mark Dimondstein Updates Members on APWU Contract Negotiations
September 10, 2024
Greetings APWU Family,
With our main Collective Bargaining Agreement expiring on September 20th, I wanted to give you a status report.
An Update on the Social Security Fairness Act
September 6, 2024
Time is running out to get the Social Security Fairness Act (HR 82) passed. We are asking every APWU member to call Monday, September 9th and demand our representatives sign the discharge petition (HR 1410).
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Is Staples Cheating Its Employees?
January 21, 2014
Is Staples guilty of chronically cheating its employees out of their hard-earned wages?
e-Team Report, Jan. 17, 2014
January 17, 2014
Congress Approves HR 3547 -- Awaiting
Presidential Signature
Ranking Member of Homeland Security and
Government Affairs Committee to Retire Mid-Term
Legislative Updates:
S. 316/H.R.630, Postal Service Protection Act
H.R. 961, United States Postal...
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Union Delivers the Message At Bay Area Staples Stores
January 17, 2014
APWU leaders in California recently delivered the union’s message to 13 Staples stores in the San Francisco Bay area: Opening postal retail units staffed by non-USPS employees is a disservice to postal workers and the nation’s mail service.
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Postal Workers and Customers Deserve Better
January 16, 2014
Local union leaders are winning allies for the union’s campaign against a pilot program that placed postal retail centers in more than 80 Staples stores, reports Northeast Region Coordinator John Dirzius.
OTDL Employees on Penalty Overtime To be Priority-Scheduled over Casuals
January 16, 2014
In a decision issued Nov. 19, 2013, Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the APWU’s position that full-time employees on the Overtime Desired List (OTDL) must be scheduled for overtime ahead of casual employees on overtime, even if the OTDL employees...