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News Article | July 27, 2007
Candidates Certified for Election Of Chicago Region Clerk NBA
Secretary-Treasurer Terry Stapleton has certified six union members as candidates for the position of Clerk Craft National Business Agent (A) for the Chicago region. The nominating process was extended because of the untimely death of Percy Harrison Jr., who passed away on June 18. Brother Harrison...
News Article | July 27, 2007
Tennessee AMP Study Terminated
The APWU has been notified that a proposed consolidation that would have resulted in a mail-processing shift approximately 90 miles across southwest Tennessee will not occur. “After review, it has been determined that there are currently no significant opportunities to improve efficiency and/or serv...
News Article | July 26, 2007
Burrus Testifies Before Senate: USPS on Path to Privatization
The USPS “has begun to travel resolutely down the road of privatization,” APWU President William Burrus told a Senate subcommittee on July 25, “without authorization from Congress” — or the American people. The subcontracting of postal work, he warned, “is just one aspect of a dangerous trend: the w...
News Article | July 25, 2007
Texas Consolidation Plan Shelved
The APWU has been notified that a proposed consolidation of mail-processing operations in Waco, TX, will not occur. A study to determine whether operations should be shifted both north (about 90 miles to Fort Worth) and south (100 miles to Austin) has been terminated. Approximately 250 jobs were at...
News Article | July 20, 2007
Oshkosh-to-Green Bay Consolidation Study Cancelled
The APWU has been notified that a proposed consolidation that would have resulted in a mail-processing shift from one Wisconsin P&DF to another approximately 50 miles away will not occur. “After review, it has been determined that there are currently no significant opportunities to improve efficienc...
News Article | July 20, 2007
Burrus Tells Congress: Compel USPS to Bargain Over Subcontracting
If Congress wants to limit USPS subcontracting, lawmakers should enact legislation compelling the Postal Service to bargain over the issue, APWU President William Burrus told a House subcommittee on July 19, rather than intervening in specific contracting-out disputes. Congress should avoid substitu...
News Article | July 13, 2007
2007 Organizing Campaign Special Drawing Winners Announced
More than a dozen new APWU members are finding out that it really does pay to join the union. Organization Department Director Frank A. Romero announced today the winners of a special drawing that awarded prizes to a sampling of the thousands of new members who have joined the APWU so far this year...
News Article | July 13, 2007
Efforts to Reduce Ergonomic Injuries Showing Positive Results at Postal Service
Postal Service employees are experiencing fewer ergonomic injuries since the formation of an OSHA-organized labor/management partnership in 2003. The joint venture between the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the APWU, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NMHU...
News Article | July 9, 2007
2007 Joint Contract Interpretation Manual
The 2007 Joint Contract Interpretation Manual (JCIM) is now available. The 2007 JCIM update was agreed to by the parties on June 29, 2007. The JCIM is intended to be a resource for the administration of the National Agreement. Jointly prepared by the APWU and the USPS, the JCIM provides a mutually a...
News Article | July 2, 2007
Operating Services Workers Ratify 4-Year Contract
APWU members working in Operating Services ratified a four-year Collective Bargaining Agreement on July 5 by a vote of 48 to 1.
News Article | July 2, 2007
APWU, USPS Reach Tentative Agreement Covering Operating Services Workers
The APWU and the USPS have reached a tentative agreement covering Operating Services workers, which is modeled on the Collective Bargaining Agreement for employees in the Clerk, Maintenance and Motor Vehicle Crafts. If ratified, the tentative agreement will cover 90 employees at USPS Headquarters in...
News Article | July 2, 2007
Labor Department Study Affirms That FMLA ‘Is Working as Intended’
A Department of Labor study released June 27 confirms what most Americans already know, that “family and medical leave is good for workers and their families, is in the public interest, and is good workplace policy.”
News Article | July 2, 2007
DHL Subsidiary Ordered to Stop Interfering With Workers’ Rights at Ohio Sorting Hub
An NLRB Administrative Law Judge has ruled that DHL Express of Wilmington, OH, is guilty of the unfair labor practice charges lodged against the global-delivery company by the APWU late last year.
News Article | June 30, 2007
The 1911 Furniture Workers Strike
A century-old and nearly forgotten story about furniture workers who overcame deep cultural divisions to unite for their common good was recently put back in the limelight by a group of labor activists.
News Article | June 28, 2007
Despite Majority Support, ‘EFCA’ Blocked in Senate
Although a majority of U.S. Senators clearly favor the Employee Free Choice Act, anti-worker lawmakers have prevented the Senate from passing the measure. Fifty-one senators voted June 26 to end debate and pass the act. But the 48 senators who oppose the bill voted against “cloture,” preventing a vo...