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News Article | March 20, 2007
Unions Press FBI to Brief Congress on Anthrax Investigation
The APWU, along with the other postal unions and management associations, has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to grant congressional requests for a briefing by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on its inquiry into the 2001 anthrax attacks. The attacks killed five people, including two post...
News Article | March 14, 2007
Women’s Organizing Campaign Takes Shape
T-shirts, balloons, buttons, stickers, and brochures are included in the organizing kits. The APWU Women’s Organizing Campaign is taking shape, with organizing kits mailed to 58 locals across the country. The packets include buttons, stickers, balloons, flyers, brochures, T-shirts, and, of course, t...
News Article | March 9, 2007
Union Encourages USPS Board of Governors To Approve Postal Regulatory Commission Ruling
The APWU is encouraging the USPS Board of Governors to approve the Feb. 26 “recommended decision” of the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). In a March 8 letter, union President William Burrus said the PRC’s decision, which rejected the Postal Service’s proposed rate structure for first-class letter...
News Article | March 6, 2007
Retroactive Pay to Be Issued May 18
The USPS has notified the APWU that it expects to disburse back pay for the period from Nov. 25, 2006, through Feb. 2, 2007, in paychecks dated May 18 (Pay Period 10-2007). The retroactive pay will reflect a 1.3 percent raise for five pay periods (Pay Period 25-2006 through 03-2007).
News Article | March 2, 2007
Union, Management Sign Off On Contract Questions & Answers
The APWU and USPS signed off on a set of Questions and Answers regarding the 2006-2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement, which outline the specific application of provisions involving the conversion of part-time flexibles and the supplemental workforce. “These joint interpretations clarify the partie...
News Article | March 2, 2007
House Approves Employee Free Choice Bill
The House of Representatives voted 241-185 in favor of legislation that would strengthen workers’ ability to bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions by safeguarding their rights when they choose to form unions. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education & Labor Co...
News Article | February 28, 2007
Evelyn Dubrow: Labor’s Legendary Lobbyist
For two centuries, the lobbies adjacent to the U.S. House and Senate have attracted all sorts of “interest peddlers,” from the cigar-chomping agents of the mine, railroad, and steel industries to the well-heeled representatives of today’s multi-national corporations. In recent years, their often-not...
Press Release | February 26, 2007
APWU PREVAILS, COMMISSION LIMITS POSTAGE INCREASE
APWU PREVAILS, COMMISSION LIMITS POSTAGE INCREASE
News Article | February 26, 2007
‘A Woman’s Place is in Her Union’
The APWU has unveiled an ambitious union organizing campaign directed at women, scheduled to begin in March, Women’s History Month. The campaign will urge women officers and activists to reach out to female non-members and ask them to join the APWU. The campaign is being coordinated by a committee c...
News Article | February 26, 2007
PRC Decision a Big Win For Postal Customers, APWU
Source: PRC press briefing packet The APWU — along with individual customers and small businesses — achieved a significant victory Feb. 26, when the Postal Regulatory Commission announced its recommended decision on a USPS request to increase rates: The PRC rejected the Postal Service’s proposed rat...
News Article | February 21, 2007
Union to Hold ‘Round Robin’ Contract Conferences
The national APWU will host a series of discussions about the 2006-2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement with local and state officers in locations around the country, union President William Burrus has announced. “These meetings present an important opportunity for local leaders — who work in the tr...
News Article | February 20, 2007
Raises Implemented Feb. 3
The union has been informed that new pay rates for APWU-represented employees were implemented in Pay Period 04-2007 and will appear in checks dated Feb. 23. The new implementation date was two pay periods ahead of the date initially promised by the Postal Service. The new pay rates reflect the 1.3...
News Article | February 16, 2007
‘Employee Free Choice Act’ Events Set for Feb. 19-23
More than 130 members of Congress will join workers, union leaders, and community activists at press conferences and other events in cities across the country Feb. 19-23 to demonstrate support for the Employee Free Choice Act of 2007. The bipartisan bill, introduced in the House by Reps. George Mill...
News Article | February 12, 2007
USPS Abandons Nine More AMP Studies
The Postal Service has notified the APWU that it has cancelled nine more Area Mail Processing studies. In a statement on Feb. 9, the Postal Service told the APWU that “it has been determined that there are currently no significant opportunities to improve efficiency or service through consolidation...
News Article | February 12, 2007
Labor Board Files Complaint Against DHL
A DHL director of labor relations, the NLRB complaint says, “implied that it would be futile for employees to select the union as their bargaining representative by telling employees there is only so much money for labor costs, and for them to gain in one area, they will have to lose in another.”