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News Article | July 11, 2014
Maintenance Craft Settles Dispute on Custodial Staffing; Will Convert More Than 3,150 PSEs
The APWU and USPS signed a major settlement July 9 that resolves a long-standing dispute over custodial staffing and results in the conversion to career of all Maintenance Craft Postal Support Employees, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced.
News Article | July 8, 2014
APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement for IT/AS Employees
The APWU and USPS have reached a tentative agreement on a contract for employees in the IT and Accounting Services (AS) units. Union members will have the opportunity to vote to ratify or reject the agreement. Details of the ratification process are expected to be announced July 9.
News Article | July 1, 2014
Maintenance Sets Process For PSE Conversion to Career
On March 20, 2014, President Mark Dimondstein signed a memorandum of understanding with the USPS on Filling Residual Vacancies. The title sounds innocuous enough, but the agreement is an extremely important step forward for APWU members.
News Article | July 1, 2014
Taking It to The Streets!
Wow! It was great to be out in the streets of Washington, DC with 200+ APWU members and other union leaders and activists on April 24, the National Day of Action to Stop Staples.
News Article | April 28, 2014
APWU Members at B&B Trucking Ratify Tentative Agreement
Members of the Great Lakes Area Mail Haulers Local APWU have voted to ratify a Tentative Agreement reached on March 29. Contract ratification ballots were mailed to the 100 APWU members of the local; 62 were returned, with 34 voting in favor of the agreement and 20 voting against. Eight ballots we...
News Article | April 23, 2014
APWU Nurses Approve Contract
In a unanimous vote of 33-0, members of the National Postal Professional Nurses-APWU approved a Tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement with the USPS on April 23. Forty-three ballots were mailed.
News Article | April 3, 2014
PSEs Should Beware of ‘Voice of Employee’ Surveys
Postal Support Employees should beware of management's latest ploy, union leaders are warning: Beginning in April, the Postal Service plans to ask non-career employees to take Voice of the Employee (VOE) surveys.
News Article | April 1, 2014
Tentative Agreement Reached on Nurses’ Contract
The APWU has reached a Tentative Agreement with the USPS on a Collective Bargaining Agreement covering postal nurses.
News Article | March 20, 2014
Four Postal Unions Form Historic Alliance
Declaring that “the U.S. Postal Service is under unprecedented attack,” the presidents of the four postal unions have formed a historic alliance to fight back.
News Article | March 11, 2014
Postal Unions Form Alliance
Declaring that “the U.S. Postal Service is under unprecedented attack,” the presidents of the four postal unions have formed a historic alliance to fight back.
News Article | March 1, 2014
A Safe Workplace: It’s Not a Matter of Luck
(This article appears in the May-June 2014 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Tony D. McKinnon Sr., Industrial Relations Director Our members want to be assured that we will leave work each day as healthy as we were when we arrived. And that’s not a matter of luck. It’s a contractual rig...
News Article | February 6, 2014
Senate Panel Approves ‘Disastrous’ Postal Bill
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved an amended version of a postal bill (S. 1486) that faces vehement opposition from the four postal unions.
News Article | January 30, 2014
Senate Committee Begins – But Doesn’t Complete – Debate on Postal Bill
The Senate committee with oversight over the Postal Service spent nearly three hours on Jan. 29 debating amendments to a postal bill that all four postal unions oppose, but recessed before taking a final vote. There is no word on when — or if — the committee will reconvene to finish consideration of...
News Article | January 24, 2014
Supreme Court Hears Landmark Union Case Involving Home Health Care Workers
This week, U.S. Supreme Court heard Harris vs. Quinn, a case concerning in-home care providers who work with Medicaid patients, and their right to unionize. In response to high turnover rates and low wages amongst home care providers, 20,000 individuals in Illinois voted to join the Service Employee...
News Article | January 17, 2014
e-Team Report, Jan. 17, 2014
Congress Approves HR 3547 -- Awaiting Presidential Signature Ranking Member of Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to Retire Mid-Term Legislative Updates: S. 316/H.R.630, Postal Service Protection Act H.R. 961, United States Postal Service Stabilization Act H.R. 3801, Issa’s 5-Day De...