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Second Payment of $15 Million Settlement for Part-time Regular Workers Announced

June 22, 2025
Second Payment of $15 Million Settlement for Part-time Regular Workers Announced

Update: CDL Medical Certification Integration

June 18, 2025
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) adopted a rule change in 2015, along with many other components of this rule change, was the requirement that the Medical Examiner who performs a Commercial Driver Certification physical will...

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...

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.

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...

Illinois Local Delivers the Message

January 16, 2014
Postal workers in Springfield IL delivered a letter to the city’s Staples franchise on Jan. 14 voicing opposition to the retail chain’s plans for opening pilot postal retail units staffed by non-USPS employees in more than 80 Staple stores.

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