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APWU Maintenance Division Secures $15 Million Part-Time Regular Settlement Agreement
September 23, 2024
In 2021, the APWU Maintenance Division filed a national dispute regarding the Postal Service's violation of Article 7 section 3 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), specifically concerning the 2.5 percent cap on the total number of Part-...
NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE: APWU and USPS 'Stop The Clock' to Continue Bargaining
September 21, 2024
As the current contract was due to expire at midnight, September 20, 2024, APWU and USPS agreed to 'Stop The Clock' to continue bargaining for a new contract workers deserve.
Award on USPS Use of Casuals in Lieu of Career Employees
An award by Arbitrator Shyam Das sustaining the APWU’s grievance over the Postal Service’s improper use of casuals in lieu of career employees.
EEOC Upholds Class Action
On May 30, 2008, in the case of Sandra McConnell et al v. United States Postal Service, an Administrative Judge (AJ) for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) certified a class action complaint alleging that the USPS had discriminated...
Appeals Pending in Important Cases Affecting Preference-Eligible Veterans
Any veterans' preference-eligible employee who gets a notice that his or her duty assignment has been abolished and that he or she will become unassigned, should immediately ask a manager whether there are duty assignments available in the same...
e-Team Report, Sept. 13, 2013
Senate Committee to Address Postal Reform
Federal Unions Protest Proposal to Pull Postal Workers From Federal Employee Health Benefit Program
AFL-CIO Says Postal Service Needs ‘Innovation And Growth, Not Downsizing and Decline’
Postal Work Ranked as...
Maintenance Selection System & Non-MSS Positions
There are two categories of positions in the Maintenance Craft – MSS positions and Non-MSS positions — with a different application process for each category. The "pecking order" for filling positions is the same. (See JCIM, Article 38, Order for...