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APWU President Mark Dimondstein's Opening Remarks for 2024 Contract Negotiations
June 25, 2024
Read President Dimondstein's strong remarks to lead off opening day of contract talks.
Management Reducing Package Presort Discounts
June 14, 2024
The Postal Service is in the early stages of eliminating the deepest of several discounts where package consolidators sort to the Destination Delivery Units (DDUs) and five-digit presort.
e-Team Report, Dec. 31, 2012
New Year's Edition!
Santa Added House Republicans to Naughty List
New Members for House Postal Committee
Senator Carper Launches Postal Losses Clock
Senate Holds Hearing on Social Security Field Office Closures and Service Cuts
On Wednesday, the Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing to look at the impact of recent Social Security field office closures and service cuts. Although the Social Security Administration (SSA) is receiving record numbers of claims as the...
Dispute: New PSE Position Descriptions
This dispute involves the issuance of management instructions regarding the use of new, rather than existing, Standard Position Descriptions when hiring PSEs.
The ‘Revamped Maintenance Selection System’
As a result of several rounds of intense discussions, the APWU and the USPS have agreed to modify the Maintenance Selection System (MSS), the process by which many Maintenance Craft duty assignments are filled.
We feel that the Revamped Maintenance...
Postal Service Default: A Congressionally-Manufactured Crisis
The Postal Service’s default on a $5.5 billion payment to the U.S. Treasury on Aug. 1 — and an expected default on Sept. 30 — is the result of a congressionally-manufactured crisis that could have been avoided, the APWU charged over the summer....