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News Article | September 16, 2020
It Pays to Be Union! Retroactive Pay and COLAs in Recent Paychecks
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) As this issue goes to press, most APWU members received their retroactive pay in their paychecks dated September 4. This retroactive pay is the back pay entitled from the 2018 and 2019 pay increa...
News Article | September 16, 2020
Make a Difference and Save Your Postal Job on Election Day
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Currently, we have a U.S. President and many Senators who want to impose enormous financial burdens on the USPS. We have a President who is willing to give corporations, banks, and Wall Street st...
News Article | September 16, 2020
Management Must Abide by the Collective Bargaining Agreement
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) It has been a different summer for all of us. Every member of the APWU has been touched by the COVID-19 pandemic in one way or another. Yet all of you continued to provide essential postal servic...
News Article | September 16, 2020
National and Local Officers Use Media to Spread the Word on the Postal Service
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) As the crisis facing the Postal Service began gathering large public attention in July and August, the media came to the APWU for insight on the issue. APWU National and local officers became the...
News Article | September 16, 2020
National MVS Assistant Director Javier Piñeres Retires from APWU
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Effective August 31, national MVS Assistant Director Javier E. Piñeres retired after nearly two decades as an APWU officer. Javier began his postal career in 1984. He served the San Jose Area Loc...
News Article | September 16, 2020
New Policies are an Organizing Opportunity
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) As concerned postal workers, we have been hearing a lot about delaying-mail policies, reduction in hours, gutting automation and the end of postal operations as we know it. It feels like in a mat...
News Article | September 16, 2020
POStPlan Implementation’s Questions and Answers
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On July 13, 2020, the parties at the Headquarters level agreed to the following Q and A regarding POStPlan Installation: What are the timelines from February 10, 2020, the date the agreement was...
News Article | September 16, 2020
President Dimondstein Testifies before House Committee and Congressional Progressive Caucus
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) President Mark Dimondstein testified at two hearings conducted by the U.S. Congress, before the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) on Aug. 20 and the House of Representatives Committee on Hom...
News Article | September 16, 2020
Retirement Benefit Questions
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) What will happen to your federal retirement benefit should you resign/separate from the USPS prior to being eligible to retire depends on several factors, starting with how much creditable federa...
News Article | September 16, 2020
Staying Safe
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) We all have been affected by the health and safety issues related to COVID-19. The uncertainty around when the pandemic will end continues to plague our everyday lives. The invisible virus seems...
News Article | September 16, 2020
Taking the MVS Craft Forward One Step at a Time
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The MVS Craft continues to grow. It is by no accident that our craft is taking positive strides. The struggles the Craft has faced over the years are no secret, but they have never been a deterre...
News Article | September 16, 2020
The People are Proving We’re no “Joke”
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) It is no joke when the U.S. President calls us “a joke.” It is most concerning for our jobs and future. We are outraged that those who want to privatize the public Postal Service shamefully use t...
News Article | September 16, 2020
The People are Proving We’re no “Joke”
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) It is no joke when the U.S. President calls us “a joke.” It is most concerning for our jobs and future. We are outraged that those who want to privatize the public Postal Service shamefully use t...
News Article | September 16, 2020
USPS Planning to Reduce AFCS, DBCS, AFSM100, and FSS in its Mail Processing Facilities
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Please be advised that pursuant to Article 15, Sections 2 and 4, of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the APWU is initiating a Step 4 Dispute, No. HQTC20200290. The issues and facts involved i...
News Article | September 16, 2020
Vote by Mail: The Postal Service Can Handle It
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Mail-in voter fraud is a conspiracy. The real problem is voter suppression. With the Nov. 3 election fast approaching, fighting voter suppression remains one of the American Postal Workers Union’...