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It Is Always About the Work
May 19, 2025
In the ever-expanding world of postal words and jargon, ‘RTO’ and ‘LTO’ are recent additions you may see as a postal worker. These stand for Regional Transportation Optimization (RTO) and Local Transportation Optimization (LTO).” MVS Director...
2025 Maintenance Division All-Craft Conference
May 19, 2025
Maintenance Craft Director Idowu Balogun highlights the upcoming APWU All-Craft Conference and Bulk Mail Center Conference in October, discusses revisions to the TL-5 MS-47 Handbook, and a planned maintenance operation pilot program.
Contract Negotiations Begin
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
On June 22, contract negotiations began with opening statements from Industrial Relations Director and chief spokesperson Vance Zimmerman, Executive...
Das 110 HCRs Noncompliance Award Issued
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
In our continuing commitment to require postal management’s compliance with the August 2016 arbitration decision rendered by national arbitrator Shyam...
Negotiations with USPS and Private Sector
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Negotiating new and successor collective bargaining agreements during this COVID-19 period has proved to be very challenging. The Support Services...
Mail Processing Equipment Arbitration
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The Maintenance National Officers arbitrated a section of Electronic Work Hours Estimated Program (eWHEP) on May 18-19, before a newly selected...
Postal Workers Weathered the Storm
July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
The past 15 months has been challenging and stressful for postal workers. The COVID-19 pandemic spared no one, touching almost everyone in some way,...