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News Article | April 2, 2019
New Law Streamlines Claims and Appeals
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) Last month, the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017 finally went into effect after having been signed into law on Aug. 23, 2017. It is said to represent one of the most signific...
News Article | April 2, 2019
Anti-Privatization Resolutions Re-Introduced in Congress
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Legislative & Political Department Director Judy Beard House representatives in the 116th Congress wasted no time displaying their opposition to the White House plan to privatize the Postal Service...
News Article | April 2, 2019
Stay Strong Going Into Arbitration
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Organization Director Anna Smith With contract negotiations going into interest arbitration, staying united and strong is essential at every level. Reminding not only ourselves but our non-member c...
News Article | April 2, 2019
News Article | April 2, 2019
Kathy Danek Retires as APWU Auxiliary President
This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) At the beginning of the year, Kathy Danek retired as APWU Auxilary President, a position she has served in since 2012. When Kathy Danek’s husband Terry became a Postal Service employee in 1974, he brou...
News Article | April 2, 2019
Chicago Local President Keith Richardson Honored with ‘Eyes on the Prize’ Award
This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Chicago Local President Keith Richardson was honored with the “Eyes on the Prize” Award at the 2019 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference on Jan. 20.
News Article | April 2, 2019
Your Rights after an OSHA Inspection
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Any employee has the right to file a complaint with OSHA about hazards and unsafe working conditions at the Post Office. If you file a complaint be sure to inform your local union. There are very spec...
News Article | April 2, 2019
Honored to be Serving as Northeast Coordinator
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Northeast Region Coordinator Ron Suslak On Jan. 16, President Dimondstein appointed me to the vacant Northeast Regional Coordinator position with confirmation by the National Executive Board, follo...
News Article | April 2, 2019
From the Field
This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Below are quotes from various APWU local and state publications throughout the country. All the publications listed are part of the Postal Press Association.
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 | April 2, 2019
Custodian Team Cleaning (CTC): Doomed to Fail
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Maintenance Division Director Idowu Balogun Beginning in 2012, The US Postal Service embarked on a “Pilot” program to replace the 1983 Housekeeping Handbook MS 47 TL 3 with Custodian Team Cleaning...
News Article | April 2, 2019
APWU Members Trained to Take US Mail – Not for Sale Campaign Out to the Field
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Sixteen APWU members participated in a “train-thetrainer” for the APWU’s US Mail – Not for Sale Anti-Privatization campaign. Members from coast-to-coast came to learn about the current White House prop...
News Article | April 2, 2019
Clerk Craft Updates
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson National Grievances As a result of the Clerk Craft’s win in the Sales Retention Team dispute, the USPS recently sent checks to eligible employees as part of...
News Article | April 2, 2019
Strikes, Shutdown and Service — Public Servants Rise in Defense of the Public Good
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Conventional wisdom suggested that the anti-union Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME last summer spelled the inevitable decline of public sector unionism in this country. Despite a generation of c...
News Article | April 2, 2019
Advocating for Postal Banking in the U.S. and Canada
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) As was previously reported in the American Postal Worker, the Canadian government forced striking Canadian Union of Postal Workers back to work at Canada Post late last year through an act of parliame...