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Maintenance Part-Time Regular Payout Update (February 2025)

February 3, 2025
Maintenance Director Idowu Balogun provides an update on the Maintenance PTR Settlement Payout as of February 2025.

How to Navigate to VER Plans, Optional Retirement Pages through USPS’s LiteBlue

February 3, 2025
Working in conjunction with Retirees Director Nancy Olumekor, the Industrial Relations Department has produced a presentation which provides step-by-step instructions on how active postal service employees with access to LiteBlue can navigate to the...

USPS, Staples Produce a Mound of Documents

November 2, 2015
The mound of documents produced by USPS and Staples After months of refusing to provide documents subpoenaed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the APWU, the USPS and Staples produced a mound of paperwork on Oct. 20, less than two...

A Change of Heart for the NLRB?

November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) In a string of recent decisions, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled decisively in favor of workers. As a result, President...

A Gift that Keeps on Giving

November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) We have a tradition in this country of celebrating birthdays by sending cards and giving gifts. Rep. Allan Grayson (D-FL) celebrated Medicare’s...

Workers Comp Fraud Investigations

November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Special agents of the Postal Service Office of the Inspector General (OIG) are contracted to “safeguard postal revenue” and are supposed to “...

Disability Compensation

November 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Disability compensation is a monthly, tax-free benefit paid to veterans because of injuries or diseases that were incurred or were aggravated...

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