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News Article | July 8, 2016
EEOC: National Reassessment Program Discriminated Against Injured Workers
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently ruled that the Postal Service’s National Reassessment Process (NRP) discriminated against injured workers and violated their rights under the Reha...
News Article | July 8, 2016
New PSE Health Care Options
It’s an honor to serve as the new APWU Health Plan Director. I wish my predecessor, William Kaczor Jr., all the best in retirement, and salute his many years of dedicated service to the union and to members of the union’s health plans. The APWU Health Plan is working hard to ensure all of our brothe...
News Article | July 8, 2016
Houston PSEs Step Up to Union Activism
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Heather Lewis, a Postal Support Employee in Houston, loves her job. “PSEs work really hard. We work long hours, but I actually enjoy it. It’s very challenging,” she said. But there’s no denying that many PS...
News Article | July 8, 2016
Houston PSEs Step Up to Union Activism
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Heather Lewis, a Postal Support Employee in Houston, loves her job. “PSEs work really hard. We work long hours, but I actually enjoy it. It’s very challenging,” she said. But there’s no denying that many PS...
News Article | July 8, 2016
Summary and Highlights from Interest Arbitration Award
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) With the decision of the interest arbitration panel of July 8, 2016, we have a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between the American Postal Workers Union and the United States Postal Service that covers...
News Article | July 8, 2016
Summary and Highlights from Interest Arbitration Award
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) With the decision of the interest arbitration panel of July 8, 2016, we have a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between the American Postal Workers Union and the United States Postal Service that covers...
News Article | July 8, 2016
Fed Up with Understaffing, Saint Louis Local Pickets Post Office
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Fed up with chronic understaffing of mail sorting machines, nearly 100 members of the Saint Louis Gateway Area Local and their allies formed an enthusiastic picket line outside the downtown post office on J...
News Article | July 8, 2016
Fed Up with Understaffing, Saint Louis Local Pickets Post Office
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Fed up with chronic understaffing of mail sorting machines, nearly 100 members of the Saint Louis Gateway Area Local and their allies formed an enthusiastic picket line outside the downtown post office on J...
News Article | July 8, 2016
Thousands Protest Secret Trade Deals
Thousands protest secret trade deals in Hannover, Germany. (This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Approximately 30,000 protestors took to the streets of Hannover, Germany, in late April to protest secret trade deals that are being negotiated beh...
News Article | July 8, 2016
Thousands Protest Secret Trade Deals
Thousands protest secret trade deals in Hannover, Germany. (This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Approximately 30,000 protestors took to the streets of Hannover, Germany, in late April to protest secret trade deals that are being negotiated beh...
News Article | July 8, 2016
Rewriting the Rules of the Rigged Economy
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) The average U.S. family paid $2,050 to bail out Wall Street after the economy crashed in 2008 and lost nearly $5,800 in income due to reduced economic growth, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts.
News Article | July 8, 2016
Rewriting the Rules of the Rigged Economy
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) The average U.S. family paid $2,050 to bail out Wall Street after the economy crashed in 2008 and lost nearly $5,800 in income due to reduced economic growth, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts.
News Article | July 8, 2016
Verizon Strikers Win Major Victories
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Walking the picket line in Washington, D.C. With their heads held high, more than 40,000 Verizon workers from Maine to Virginia returned to work in June, after winning major victories in the biggest strike...
News Article | July 8, 2016
Verizon Strikers Win Major Victories
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) Walking the picket line in Washington, D.C. With their heads held high, more than 40,000 Verizon workers from Maine to Virginia returned to work in June, after winning major victories in the biggest strike...
News Article | July 8, 2016
AGA Brings Postal Issues to the Public
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine) John Seibel, an elections expert and president of True Ballot, testifies at the Baltimore Field Hearing. One concrete way that A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service is working to bring postal i...