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News Article | March 8, 2014
IL Local Says ‘No’ to New CPU
Approximately 70 APWU members and supporters lined the streets in Belleville, IL on March 7 to ask passersby not to patronize a newly opened postal retail operation at Ben Franklin's Crafts & Floral store. The store began offering postal services as a Contract Postal Unit (CPU) in February.
News Article | March 7, 2014
House Budget Committee Chair Ryan Misrepresents Economists in Poverty Report
The House Budget Committee released a report, The War on Poverty: Fifty Years Later, on Monday, and the findings left several economists and social scientists bemused and angry, according to The Fiscal Times. Several experts who read it said that Committee Chair Paul Ryan(R-WI) either misunderstood...
News Article | March 6, 2014
White House Budget Misses the Mark on Postal Matters
The administration’s budget proposal for 2015 misses the mark on postal issues, APWU President Mark Dimondstein said. “The White House budget echoes the misguided policies ofPostmaster General Patrick Donahoe. It calls for severe cutbacks that will harm service, drive away business, and eliminate...
Press Release | March 6, 2014
Statement by American Postal Workers Union President (APWU) Mark Dimondstein on Staples’ Earnings Report and Decision to Close 225 Stores:
Further Proof That It’s a Bad Idea to Move U.S Post Offices into Staples Stores
News Article | March 6, 2014
Further Proof That It’s a Bad Idea To Move U.S Post Offices into Staples Stores
News Article | March 6, 2014
Sen. Sanders Says It All
In a March 5 guest column in the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) makes an eloquent case for postal reform that protects our beloved national treasure.
News Article | March 4, 2014
Atlanta APWU Members Brave Cold to ‘Stop Staples’
Seventy-five APWU members and supporters braved cold weather and high winds on March 4 to protest outside a Staples store in Atlanta and demand that the company staff “postal counters” in its stores with postal employees. Atlanta is one of four test sites of a USPS program that outsources postal ret...
News Article | March 3, 2014
NLRB: USPS Must Give APWU Staples Info
In a complaint issued Feb. 25, Region 5 of the National Labor Relations Board found merit in APWU charges [PDF] that the Postal Service has improperly refused to provide the union with information about its agreement with Staples. [NLRB complaint] The pilot program has placed postal counters in 82...
News Article | March 3, 2014
PRC Dismisses APWU Service Complaint
The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has dismissed an APWU complaint which charges that the Postal Service is failing to meet its own service standards regarding the delivery of first-class mail. The union brought the complaint in its capacity as a large mailer.
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 | March 1, 2014
Is Postal Banking an Idea Whose Time Has Come?
The USPS Office of Inspector General sparked quite a controversy when it published a white paper in late January that endorsed a concept postal unions have quietly supported for years: The Postal Service should provide basic financial services to the 68 million American adults who don't have bank ac...
News Article | February 28, 2014
Black Women Raise Their Voices in the Tobacco Industry
By 1938, Louise "Mamma" Harris had worked at the I.N. Vaughan Export stemmery in Richmond VA for nearly six years. The women who worked at Export were among the poorest in Richmond; they had to wrap themselves in tobacco burlap to stay warm in the winter. The stemmers earned an average of $3 a week...
News Article | February 28, 2014
Arbitrator Rules on NTFT Excessing
Arbitrator Dennis R. Nolan has ruled that APWU members holding Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) assignments may not be excessed into full-time positions in the Letter Carrier Craft if they don’t meet the definition of full-time employees specified in the Postal Service’s contract with the National A...
News Article | February 28, 2014
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News Article | February 27, 2014
USPS Declares War On Custodial Staffing Again!
The USPS has declared war on custodial staffing — again — reports Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer. Management notified the APWU on Jan. 22 of an attempt to modify the MS-47 Handbook, which establishes guidelines for housekeeping and determines the number of custodians that will be assigned t...