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News Article | September 14, 2025

Testing Issues Resolved For Motor Vehicle Mechanics

The APWU and USPS have settled several issues involving which exams MVS employees must take to qualify for positions that were upgraded in 2001. The disputes arose when the Postal Service issued new qualification standards for the upgraded positions.

News Article | September 14, 2025

Recognizing, Avoiding Burnout

Burnout is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It can occur when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands.

News Article | September 14, 2025

USPS Districts Currently Under Phase 2 Of the National Reassessment Process

The Postal Service continues to implement Phase 2 of the National Reassessment Process (NRP) in USPS Districts across the country. There is no set schedule that establishes a date when a particular District will begin Phase 2.  

News Article | September 14, 2025

Happy Grandparents Day!

Sunday, September 7 is Grandparents Day. In Ohio, Alliance members are celebrating the day with an event in Cortland. In Illinois, Alliance members in the East St. Louis area are celebrating the holiday today with Rep. William Enyart.

News Article | September 14, 2025

Operation Care Package

Care packages provide warm messages and familiarities from home. Packages are sent to servicemen and women serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recipients include members of all branches of the military, from everywhere in the US. We also forward care packages to APWU members or their loved...

News Article | September 14, 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 | September 14, 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 | September 14, 2025

Summary of Regulations Governing COPA Solicitations

Summary of Regulations Governing COPA Solicitations

News Article | September 14, 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 | September 14, 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 | September 14, 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 | September 14, 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 | September 14, 2025

Leyman Lift Gate Problems

Survey for Locals about problems with International and Freightliner trucks

News Article | September 14, 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 | September 14, 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