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News Article | August 8, 2018
APWU Arbitration Award Restores Rules for Employees Using Leave Without Pay to Campaign
APWU members can continue to volunteer in political campaigns under the long-standing leave-without-pay rules in the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM). A national arbitrator rejected changes the Postal Service made to the Leave Without Pay (LWOP) rules for how employees request LWOP to part...
News Article | August 3, 2018
PSEs for the USPS Health Benefits Plan
On July 30, 2018, the Postal Service notified the APWU that there will be a special enrollment period for PSEs to enroll in the USPS Health Benefits Plan. The enrollment period will be open from August 20, 2018 through October 4, 2018. Coverage will become effective on October 13, 2018. PSEs are e...
News Article | July 27, 2018
Members in Action
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) PORTLAND, CINCINNATI LOCALS RALLY AGAINST CUTBACKS IN JOBS AND SERVICE Teresa Oller, steward from Portland OR Area Local, helps lead a rally against jobs and service cuts. In June, as the APWU barga...
News Article | July 27, 2018
We’re Fighting for Everyone
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) When APWU member Denisha Dean decided to step up and run for president of the Long Beach Area APWU Local, there were those who believed was too black, too young and too busy as a single mother to comp...
News Article | July 26, 2018
Major Victory For Expanded Postal Services
On Wednesday, July 18, the APWU and our allies won a big victory by defeating an attempt to prohibit the Postal Service from expanding financial services. In a vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, an amendment to a government appropriation bill (H.R. 6147) offered by Representativ...
News Article | July 26, 2018
New Benefits Secured for Postal Support Employees (PSEs)
In the 2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement between the APWU and the US Postal Service, the parties established a “Workforce Benefits, Employment Opportunities, Training and Education Fund.” The purpose of the fund was to provide for the Postal Service’s share of health insurance benefits to PSEs a...
News Article | July 24, 2018
A Bold Vision for the U.S. Postal Service
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) Speaking out for better, expanded postal services at A Grand Alliance field hearing in Baltimore, MD, March 2016. What if, instead of reducing hours, closing post offices, slowing delivery standards,...
News Article | July 24, 2018
A Culture of Solidarity
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Clerk Craft Directors The owners of large corporations and their allies are behind the push to degrade and dismantle the Postal Service. Their money largely controls Congress, the media, and the US...
News Article | July 24, 2018
Can We Trust USPS Management?
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Motor Vehicle Service Craft Directors Can we ever trust USPS management to live up to their agreements and obligations? On August 18, 2016, during our last convention in Orlando, the Motor Vehicle...
News Article | July 24, 2018
Celebrate, Protect Your Benefits
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Retirees Director Nancy Olumekor Every year we recognize and celebrate the Social Security Act, enacted on Aug. 14, 1935, 83 years ago, and Medicare, enacted on July 30, 1965, 53 years ago. These t...
News Article | July 24, 2018
Filling Maintenance Vacancies – Part 1
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Maintenance Craft Directors The Joint Contract Interpretation Manual (JCIM) is the mutually agreed upon explanation on how to apply our contract to filling vacant maintenance positions. The May 201...
News Article | July 24, 2018
From the Field
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 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. “Did you know unions are what brought race...
News Article | July 24, 2018
Hearing Loss
Twenty percent of Americans report some degree of hearing loss but those who serve are far more impacted by auditory disorders than the general public due to their exposure to artillery gunfire, battlefield explosives, loud machinery, aircraft noise and traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). Hearing loss...
News Article | July 24, 2018
Many Hands Make Light Work
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Organization Director Anna Smith Sometimes it seems like we are our own worst enemy. When I first started my postal career there was always gloom and doom rhetoric going around the workroom floor....
News Article | July 24, 2018
Postal Banking is Successful Around the World – Could It Work Here?
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2018 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) Postal services across the world provide tried and tested and successful models for postal banking, or the provision of financial services via the post. New research by Holly Feldman Wiencek, Research...