EDWARDSVILLE, Kan. — The best way to describe postal service in Edwardsville, Kansas, is a “total mess,” says Ceila Mohler. She lives at the Edwardsville Village Mobile Home Park. The city’s post office has been out of commission since March 11 when a car rammed into the back of it. FOX 4 Problem Solvers first…
American postal workers and their allies complain that U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is trying to privatize his agency, and Donahoe says this is preposterous. Who’s right? It might be useful to consider what’s going on in Britain, where the Conservative-run government of Prime Minister David Cameron really did take the Royal Mail private last…
By Eric Chase – 1993. Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers’ Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don’t realize that May Day has its…
According to the latest article in the APWU magazine, “PSEs deserve opportunities and upward mobility within the Maintenance Craft like every other Maintenance Craft member.” However, in the Harrisburg facility where I work the maintenance, PSEs are sitting unconverted while the newly converted Mail Handler Assistants were given the 955 test in April and will…
APWU Web News Article #082-14, April 30, 2014 The APWU is pleased to announce the launch of our redesigned website, www.apwu.org, which will begin on Friday, May 2. We invite you to explore the new site and share your feedback with us. Among the new and improved features are: A cleaner, more modern look A…
The U.S. Postal Service continues its tradition of calling attention to one of the nation’s most commonly reported public health problems: dog attacks and bites. From nips and bites to actual attacks, violent dog behavior continues to pose a serious threat to our employees. To emphasize the enormity of this issue, we are reporting the…
Four months into 2014 and APWU Retirees Department Members have yet to receive their membership cards, despite Director Beard’s assurances the problem was resolved and they were going out on April 12, 2014. It’s now May 1, 2014. Just how difficult can it be to accomplish this task? We have approximately 40,000 dues-paying retiree members who deserve the respect of, at the…
Click Here for APWU Pittsburgh Area Retiree Chapter’s The Retiree Record [PDF] After decades of dormancy, the Union reemerged as a fighting institution on April 24! All over the country thousands of APWU members and supporting Unions, along with other labor activists, demonstrated our outrage at Staples stores over their raiding of Post Office jobs….
