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News Article | March 23, 2007
Senate to Hold Hearing on Employee Free Choice Act
A Senate Committee will hear testimony March 27 from workers and labor law experts on the need to restore workers’ freedom to form unions to bargain for better wages and benefits. “It’s no secret that a union contract is the best economic uplift program for working people in this country,” said Erro...
News Article | March 23, 2007
Postal Service Continues Plans to Close AMCs
As part of an ongoing effort to outsource postal work, the USPS recently outlined management’s continuing plans to eliminate Air Mail Centers across the country. Two letters to the APWU provide additional details about plans management announced over the summer. In a letter dated March 14, 2007, the...
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 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...