Filter
Filter By
Search Results for:
8969 Results
News Article | October 4, 2018
Does Your Representative Support Our People’s Postal Service?
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Legislative & Political Department Director Judy Beard The 2018 Midterm elections are quickly approaching! On Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, one-third of the U.S. Senate, every U.S. House Representa...
News Article | October 3, 2018
Time’s Up
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Central Region Coordinator Sharyn M. Stone This is a tough article to write because by the time you read it, we could either have a contract or be headed for binding interest arbitration. Ou...
News Article | October 3, 2018
Back-Pay Processing
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Support Services Division Director Steve Brooks You may be, or have been, an employee whose postal employment was in jeopardy due to a disciplinary action. I know employees in this circumsta...
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 | October 3, 2018
New Maintenance Division Appointments
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Maintenance Division Director Idowu Balogun Filling Maintenance Vacancies — Part II This is Part II of an article started by our late brother, former Maintenance Division Director Steve Rayme...
News Article | October 3, 2018
USPS Utilizing Disgraced Former NLRB Commissioner
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson The United States Postal Service is utilizing Terence F. Flynn, the disgraced former National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Member, during their current...
News Article | October 2, 2018
Resolutions Opposing Privatization of the Postal Service Introduced in Congress
On July 16, a leading group of Congressional representatives took action to help combat a proposal to privatize the Postal Service by introducing House Resolution 993. The privatization proposal, put forward by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget in their report Delivering Government S...
News Article | October 2, 2018
The National Convention Sets the Path for Current and Future APWU Struggles
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Twenty-one hundred APWU members departed from the union’s 24th Biennial National Convention in August uplifted, united and ready to continue Fighting Today for a Better Tomorrow! Four days of ro...
News Article | October 2, 2018
Stand Up for Safe Jobs
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman “It is the responsibility of management to provide safe working conditions in all present and future installations and to develop a safe working...
News Article | October 2, 2018
Local Union Elections
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell It starts with the process for nominations. One of the ways to alleviate and hopefully prevent complaints, Local Election Committee (LEC) and National Election...
News Article | October 2, 2018
I Have a Dream, You Have a Dream, and Dr. King Had a Dream
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Vice President Debby Szeredy My dream would be to help make APWU truly a movement of members fighting to save the USPS from privatization. Everyone needs to take responsibility and get invol...
News Article | October 1, 2018
The Five Ds
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By President Mark Dimondstein I was honored to have led the just concluded APWU’s 24th Biennial National Convention – the grand union meeting that sets our union's future direction. It was insp...
News Article | September 27, 2018
APWU Reaches Agreement on an Updated RI-399 Process
After decades of jurisdictional disputes, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) reached agreement with the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) and the Postal Service on an updated RI-399 procedure for jurisdictional work assignments to Clerks and Mail Handlers.
News Article | September 21, 2018
APWU and Postal Management Agree to Extend Negotiations Deadline until October 20, 2018
APWU President Mark Dimondstein has announced that the union and the Postal Service have agreed to extend negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement for 30 days. Our current union contract between the American Postal Workers Union and the United States Postal Service covers the wages, ho...
News Article | September 17, 2018