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News Article | August 9, 2025

Up Next: Preparing for Local Negotiations

The 2010-2015 collective bargaining agreement has been ratified by the membership, and it is now time to move to the enforcement phase of our new contract. This agreement has many sweeping changes, and there is much work to do.

News Article | August 9, 2025

Dispute: Non-Traditional Full-Time Assignments in Function 5 and Function 7

This Step 4 dispute protests Postal Service instructions to the field authorizing the creation of Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) assignments in Finance (Function 5) and in Bulk Mail (Function 7).

News Article | August 9, 2025

Summary of Regulations Governing COPA Solicitations

Summary of Regulations Governing COPA Solicitations

News Article | August 9, 2025

Waste Management

In the January-February issue, the regional coordinator’s article addressed the Postmaster General’s DRIVE (Delivering, Results, Innovation, Value, and Efficiency) program and what management was planning for you — including more consolidations, post office centralizations, duty assignment adjustmen...

News Article | August 9, 2025

Reviews Can Lead to Upgrades

Veterans who believe they received an inaccurate disability rating may be eligible to have their award reviewed by the Physical Disability Board of Review. The PDBR was created to address inconsistencies in disability ratings among service branches to ensure accuracy and fairness. The board reviews...

News Article | August 9, 2025

Award on Applicability of TCOLA to Promotion Pay Anomaly Payments [pdf]

This is an NALC case in which the APWU intervened. The issue was whether the Postal Service's failure to pay Territorial COLA (TCOLA) as part of the promotion pay anomaly payments due under the June 13, 1990 Memorandum of Settlement of case number H7C-NAC-39 was a violation of that settlement.

News Article | August 9, 2025

Intermediate Travel for Training Settlement

This settlement (case #H0C-NAC 19002) reinstates the language of Section 716.123 of the ELM that existed prior to 1991, which permits intermediate travel (for employees on an extended duty assignment) to a location other than the employee's permanent duty station when authorized in advance by the em...

News Article | August 9, 2025

Leyman Lift Gate Problems

Survey for Locals about problems with International and Freightliner trucks

News Article | August 9, 2025

USPS Revises Standard Operating Procedures for Handling Hazardous Materials

The Postal Service has revised its Standard Operating Procedures for the Handling of Hazardous Materials. 

News Article | August 9, 2025

e-Team Report, July 7, 2012

Check Your Mail! Mitt Romney and the Postal Service Frankly Speaking Businesses Feeling the Impact of Declining Service

News Article | August 9, 2025

PMG’s Credibility In Doubt Again

At Senate hearings in September on proposed postal legislation, "Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe made several statements that once again call his credibility into question," notes APWU Executive Vice President Greg Bell in an article for the union's magazine.

News Article | August 9, 2025

Building Self-Esteem

Of all the judgment calls we make, none are as important as the ones we make about ourselves. Low self-esteem can lead to a wide range of personal problems, often masking what is truly wrong, and resulting in underachievement, fear of commitment, alcohol or drug abuse, anxiety, and depression. How w...

News Article | August 9, 2025

USPS Unleashes NRP (Phases 1 & 2)

In mid-December, the APWU was notified that Phase 1 of the National Reassessment Process had been implemented nationwide. The Postal Service estimates that 33,707 limited duty and rehabilitation employees will be reassessed under “NRP,” which was previously known as “Outplacement.” All 85 USPS Distr...

News Article | August 9, 2025

e-Team Report, Oct. 7, 2011

APWU Opposes USPS Proposal To Cut Service Standards and Eliminate 252 Mail Processing Facilities Senator Baucus Introduces Postal Legislation Spending Bill Gives Postal Service A Few More Weeks to Make Payments Two States Look to Change Way Electoral College Votes Are Awarded Before 2012 Presidentia...