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News Article | July 25, 2019
Self-Driving Trucks Pilot Tests
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Autonomous technology and self-driving trucks have been on the front page of many news and social media sites lately. The primary reason for the news is the Postal Service’s pilot test of an autonomou...
Postal Wire | May 28, 2019
Self-driving trucking start-up CFO on its new partnership with USPS
News Article | April 2, 2019
‘Keep on Truckin’ Baby Again
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By MVS Division Director Michael O. Foster In early 2018, the USPS began deploying new cargo trucks and spotters, on a one-for-one replacement of the trucks in use at the time. The Postal Service cont...
News Article | January 16, 2019
FMCSA Revises its Regulations on Insulin-Treated Diabetes Mellitus
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By MVS Division Director Michael O. Foster In a significant change to Department of Transportation (DOT) rules, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued a revision to th...
News Article | October 3, 2018
“The Struggle Continues” – Moe Biller
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By MVS Division Director Michael O. Foster The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the United States Postal Service (USPS) are in the process of contract negotiations. It is no secret that...
News Article | July 24, 2018
Can We Trust USPS Management?
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Motor Vehicle Service Craft Directors Can we ever trust USPS management to live up to their agreements and obligations? On August 18, 2016, during our last convention in Orlando, the Motor Vehicle...
News Article | May 1, 2018
‘Keep on Truckin’ Baby’
MVS Director Michael Foster (fifth from right) and Assistant MVS Director Javier Piñeres (far left) with MVS members and USPS representatives in front of newly tested cargo trucks. (This article first appeared in the May-June 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Motor Vehicle Se...
News Article | February 5, 2018
MVS New Hire Salary Dispute Settled
On Jan. 26, the MVS Division and the USPS settled Class Action Grievance USPS NO. Q15V-4Q-C17473798/APWU No. HQTV20170179. In the settlement, the parties agreed that when an external posting to hire contains an incorrect salary for the position in question, the Postal Service may correct the error p...
News Article | January 1, 2018
The Postal Service & the DOT Physical
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Motor Vehicle Service Craft Directors On Feb. 26, 1995, the Postal Service informed the APWU that to be consistent with the trucking industry and its own contract drivers, USPS would voluntari...
News Article | September 28, 2017
Postal Vehicle Service Scanning Duty Settlement Reached
On August 31, the APWU Motor Vehicle Service Craft Division and the USPS came to a settlement for case numbers Q10V-4Q-C 16466169/HQTV20160275, Q10V-4Q-C 15300453/HQTV20150846 and Q10V-4Q-C 16466163/A19V20160276.
News Article | September 1, 2017
USPS Concedes that Schedule Examiner Work is Bargaining Unit Work
(This article first appeared in the Sept-Oct 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Motor Vehicle Service Craft Directors As we mentioned in a previous article, the union put its case for preserving the Schedule Examiner Vehicle Runs position before Arbitrator Shyam Das on Feb. 27 as...
News Article | July 1, 2017
MVO/TTO Qualification Standards Settlement
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Motor Vehicle Service Craft Directors The APWU and the Postal Service finalized a settlement on May 9, 2017 resolving national case A19V20021, concerning the 2002 changes made to the Motor Vehicle...
News Article | September 1, 2016
New Contractual Agreements in the MVS Craft
This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) After extensive negotiations and interest arbitration, the motor Vehicle Division was successful in amending key sections of Article 39 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, which governs the M...
News Article | September 1, 2016
New Contractual Agreements in the MVS Craft
This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) After extensive negotiations and interest arbitration, the motor Vehicle Division was successful in amending key sections of Article 39 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, which governs the M...
News Article | July 25, 2016
In the Dog Days of Summer Drivers Want Air
With temperatures soaring, many Motor Vehicle Service Craft employees have complained about management’s failure to maintain functioning air conditioning systems in their trucks – and the APWU has addressed those complaints at the national level, Craft Director Michael O. Foster reports.