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News Article | September 7, 2025
PSE Pay, Sunday Premium
For many years part-time flexibles ( PTFS ) have questioned why their overtime rates of pay were calculated differently than full-time employees. Now we have Postal Support Employees (PSEs), and their overtime rates are calculated differently as well. I have received many questions from the field on...
News Article | September 7, 2025
Sunday Premium Settlement
A pre-arbitration settlement (USPS #Q98C-4Q-C 00165413 and Q98C-4Q-C 00152463) reversing changes to the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) that eliminated the payment of Sunday premium for hours not actually worked, including payment of Sunday premium to employees in a continuation of pay (CO...
News Article | September 7, 2025
Premium Conversion Legislation for Retirees
On July 16 - more than three years after the legislation was first introduced - the House Civil Service and Agency Reorganization Subcommittee approved Rep. Tom Davis' (R-VA) bill to allow federal and military retirees to pay health care premiums with pre-tax dollars. The full House Government Refor...
News Article | September 7, 2025
Another Survey Suggests U.S. Middle Class is Falling Behind
While income gains for the richest Americans are outpacing their global peers, The New York Times reports that lower- and middle- income tiers in other advanced nations have made greater gains over the last three decades. “The new data about the middle class underscores the growing importance of exp...
News Article | September 7, 2025
Survey Says: Most Americans Oppose Plant Closures
I have always been skeptical of surveys conducted by the Postal Service, because they seem to be designed to generate responses that would justify cutting service, closing postal facilities, or reducing employees’ pay. But the results of a survey commissioned by the USPS Office of Inspector General...
News Article | September 7, 2025
Award on Casuals Working Tour Two
In a national-level award, Arbitrator Shyam Das has ruled that Tour 1 casuals may continue to work past 5 a.m., concluding that the intent of the 2006-2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement is to prevent management from assigning casuals starting timesbetween the hours of 5 a.m. and noon.
News Article | September 7, 2025
Half-Mile Move Prompts DHL Demand: ‘Re-Apply for Your Job
Shipping giant DHL is closing down a processing center near Allentown, PA, and opening a new facility, also near Allentown, PA. In fact, the two workplaces are a half-mile apart, which has not prevented the company from asking approximately 400 employees to fill out new job applications.
News Article | September 7, 2025
2012 Death on the Job Report
The AFL-CIO Safety and Health Department released its 2012 Death on the Job Report May 2, 2012. The final fatality data reported 4,690 fatal work injuries in 2010, up from 4,551 in 2009 and an increase in the fatality rate from 3.5/100,000 workers in 2009 to 3.6/100,000 in 2010. Click here to view t...
News Article | September 7, 2025
e-Team Report, March 2, 2012
Cutbacks at the U.S. Postal Service Kicking the Transportation Bill Down the Road If Postal Service Ax Delivery Standards, Will Elections Suffer?
News Article | September 7, 2025
‘Stop Staples’ Campaign Gets Off to a Strong Start
A trial program that put postal counters in 82 Staples stores — staffed with low-paid, non-union Staples employees — is a ‘direct assault on postal jobs and public postal services,’ the union has declared. The ‘Stop Staples’ campaign got off to a strong start in January and February, and preparation...
News Article | September 7, 2025
DOT Tractor-Trailer Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy
USPS employees who operate tractor-trailers and 7-ton and 9-ton trucks, as well as mechanics who repair them, fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation(DOT) regarding drug and alcohol testing, in accordance with regulations enacted in 1995. Management Instruction, PO-720-2 [PDF...
News Article | September 7, 2025
EEOC Upholds Class Action
On May 30, 2008, in the case of Sandra McConnell et al v. United States Postal Service, an Administrative Judge (AJ) for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) certified a class action complaint alleging that the USPS had discriminated against all rehabilitation and limited duty employee...
News Article | September 7, 2025
USPS Unveils Prescription Drug Card for Workplace Injuries
The USPS has announced a voluntary prescription drug card program for employees who suffer workplace injuries or illnesses. According to the Postal Service, employees who choose to participate in the program will submit their drug card and prescriptions to the pharmacy of their choice, and the presc...
News Article | September 7, 2025
e-Team Report, July 8, 2011
APWU to Launch TV Ad Campaign to Correct Deception about need for USPS “Bailout” along with Kicking Off Organizing Drive H.R. 1351 Cosponsor List Continues to Grow However, More Cosponsors Still Needed! NLRB Proposed Rule Changes Board of Governors Member Set to Resign
News Article | September 7, 2025
Don’t Outsource Postal Services
(Op ed by APWU President Mark Dimondstein in the Albuquerque Journal) As the United States Postal Service confronts a changing future, those of us who work for the agency agree with the goals stated in a recent Albuquerque Journal editorial. The USPS must be creative, “and do what is best for the a...