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Contract Negotiations Between APWU and Postal Management Nearing ‘End Game’
May 14, 2025
Contract Negotiations Between APWU and Postal Management Nearing ‘End Game’
Join Webinar on Tuesday, May 13 at 7PM ET to Protect Our Postal Pensions!
May 12, 2025
Postal and Federal Pensions are at risk – APWU will be hosting a Legislative webinar on Tuesday, May 13 at 7-8PM ET titled Protect Our Pensions: Fight Back Against Proposed Retirement Cuts to explain its devastating impacts and how we can combat...
MVS Settles Dispute Over Postal Operations Manual
In December 2012 the APWU resolved a long-simmering dispute with the Postal Service, involving who can drive postal vehicles, as well as other matters that affect the union’s ability to protect Motor Vehicle Craft jobs.
At issue was language that...
Disputes Over Contract Postal Units Filed, Appealed to Arbitration
The APWU has initiated one dispute, and appealed another to national arbitration, over whether a contract postal unit (CPU) may exist in a facility when the Postal Service has use of the property by consignment or other special agreement, for...
Consolidation: Fighting Back
Following the consolidation of the Middlesex-Essex (MA) Processing & Distribution Center with the Boston plant in 2013, the national APWU and the Boston Area Local met with the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to file a complaint about...
Implementation Process Agreed To For Off-Site Safety and Health Inspections
Pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding MOU Re: Off-Site Safety and Health Program found on page 324 ofthe 2006 National Agreement requiring the National Joint Labor Management Safety and Health Committee to create an implementation process to...
We’re Not a Fee-for-Service Organization
There seems to be a misconception that labor unions are fee-for-service organizations. This notion is likely fostered by the fact that union dues fund activities that serve union members. Dues enable unions to negotiate and enforce contracts,...