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In a Needed Step to Improve Service, Postal Management to Slow Down Consolidations

May 15, 2024
In response to union, community, and political pressure, Postmaster General (PMG) DeJoy, in a letter to Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), has agreed to pause, at least until January 2025, a number of the planned mail consolidations that are part of the “...

GSA Per Diem Rate Now Covers Daily Cost at NCED Eatery Effective March 15, 2024.

May 14, 2024
The General Services Administration Per Diem Rate of $59 Now Covers Daily Cost of Meals at National Center for Employee Development’s “3 Squares Eatery,” Effective March 15, 2024.

Learning the Union Difference

March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) There is certainly something to be said for developing working relationships with postal management or company representatives. When you have someone...

MVS Challenges Zero Base Review

March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The APWU initiated a National Dispute on January 29, 2021, challenging the Postal Service’s National Zero Base review program and Transportation...

Postal Workers Are Essential Workers

March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Moving forward into 2021, we can be amazed and be proud of how we persevered and managed to get through the past year of COVID-19 battered but unbowed...

COVID-19 Spotlights the Need to Continue the Fight for Safety and Health

March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Every year on April 28, workers come together for Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have died, been injured, or contracted an occupational...

Who Conducts Function Four Reviews (or Scams) in the Middle of a Pandemic?

March 1, 2021
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The Postal Service intends to conduct 607 Level 3 Function 4 reviews and 8,772 modified Level 2 Function 4 reviews in offices across the country....

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