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Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service

June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”

Ballot Placement Set for APWU Election of National Officers

June 27, 2025
A drawing was held on June 27 to determine the order candidates’ names will appear on the ballot.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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