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News Article | December 22, 2014
Season’s Greetings!
News Article | December 21, 2014
USPS Tells Customers: Get Postal Discounts at Staples
Postal management has launched a new offensive – one that clearly reveals the sinister goals of its no-bid deal with Staples. The Postal Service has sent a mass mailing to “postal customers” advertising 20 percent discounts on USPS shipping services. But the coupon glued inside isn’t for use at your...
News Article | December 20, 2014
Dimondstein Appears on Washington Journal
APWU President Mark Dimondstein appeared on Washington Journal on Dec. 20, where he discussed the future of the USPS and the union's opposition to changes in service standards that will affect postal customers across the country. The public affairs program airs daily on C-SPAN,
News Article | December 19, 2014
Senate Passes $1.1 Trillion Federal Budget Agreement, Obama Signs it into Law
After a day of drama and partisan wrangling, the Senate voted 56-40 on Saturday to send a government funding bill to President Barack Obama for his signature. Obama then signed the bill into law on Tuesday. The $1.1 trillion legislation funds most of the government through September, but sets up a F...
News Article | December 19, 2014
Dimondstein to Appear on Washington Journal on Saturday
APWU President Mark Dimondstein will appear on Washington Journal on Saturday, Dec. 20, beginning at about 9 a.m. Dimondstein will discuss issues of concern to postal customers and postal workers, as well as the importance of a vibrant, public Postal Service for future generations.
News Article | December 18, 2014
Protests Build Support for Staples Boycott
In cities and towns around the country, postal workers and supporters continue to bring the Don’t Buy Staples message to the people. Protests are ongoing in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Bay Area. And on two occasions Staples executives have been greeted...
News Article | December 18, 2014
Christmas Seasons Will Never Be the Same
APWU President Mark Dimondstein sounded the alarm on The Ed Show on Dec. 17, telling viewers, “Our Christmas seasons will never be the same,” if service standards are lowered on Jan. 5 and 82 mail processing centers are closed.
News Article | December 17, 2014
Congress Fails to Act – Again
Before Congress adjourned on Dec. 16, senators and representatives approved a government spending bill that also weakens restrictions on the big banks that crashed the economy in 2008, allows mega-donors to make substantially bigger contributions to political candidates, and reduces pensions for som...
News Article | December 17, 2014
Dimondstein to Appear on the ‘Ed Show’ Today, Dec. 17
APWU President Mark Dimondstein will appear this evening on The Ed Show, which airs on MSNBC at 5 p.m. He will discuss Congress’ failure to address urgent postal issues before adjourning yesterday and he will talk about the fight to protect the U.S. Postal Service from those who would destroy it.
News Article | December 17, 2014
Custodian TL 5 Implementation Schedule (As of Nov. 22, 2014)
The USPS and APWU agreed to implement the MS-47 TL-5 dated June 27, 2014, and its cleaning procedures at no more than 15 facilities during Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 (for purposes of this MOU only, a "facility" is a single site or location which has its own PS Form 4869, PS Form 4839, and PS Form 4852)....
News Article | December 16, 2014
The Case for Postal Banking
APWU President Mark Dimondstein spells out the case for postal banking in response to “The Case Against Postal Banking," a post on the Mother Jones website by blogger Kevin Drum. “Kevin Drum should do his homework,” Dimondstein writes in an article that explains why the USPS is uniquely qualified to...
News Article | December 14, 2014
Maintenance Craft Wins $8.64 Million Remedy for Improper Subcontracting
Arbitrator Shyam Das has ordered the Postal Service to pay Maintenance Craft employees $8.64 million for improperly subcontracting work that could have been performed by bargaining unit employees, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced. The decision, issued on Dec. 11, concludes four...
News Article | December 13, 2014
APWU Joins Protests: Justice for All!
APWU members joined rallies protesting police killings of unarmed black men on Saturday, Dec. 13. Shown here, at the rally in Washington, DC, President Mark Dimondstein marches alongside Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
News Article | December 12, 2014
Sherrod Brown to Introduce Harkin Bill to Expand Social Security in 114th Congress
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has announced plans to reintroduce Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) Strengthening Social Security Act in the next Congress. The bill would change the Social Security benefit formula, ensuring that cost of living adjustments adequately reflect the living expenses of retirees, and im...
News Article | December 12, 2014
NLRB Charges Postal Service with Illegal Surveillance of Staples Protests
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has charged the USPS with illegally spying on postal employees while they protested outside a Staples store in Atlanta on March 4 and 9, 2014.