Web News Article #: 132-14 July 8, 2014 – The APWU and USPS have reached a tentative agreement on a contract for employees in the IT and Accounting Services (AS) units. Union members will have the opportunity to vote to ratify or reject the agreement. Details of the ratification process are expected to be announced…
6. $4.5 million – Hubbard, et al. v. U.S. Postal Service Disability discrimination is growing area of litigation risk, and perhaps as a sign of the times this case revolved around the accommodations afforded to deaf and hard-of-hearing workers of the United States Postal Service. The suit alleged that workers with hearing problems were not…
The Postal Service has deployed almost 2,500 new package processing units at facilities across the nation, part of an ongoing effort to boost the organization’s shipping business. The Passive Adaptive Scanning System (PASS) improves tracking at high-volume facilities. An additional 1,600 PASS units are slated to be deployed by mid-October, bringing the total number of…
The PMG’s mad drive to undermine service and cut hours and jobs is going to get worse! His announcement to impose 82 more plant consolidations to begin in January 2015, coupled with the impacts of several hundred forced excessing events for this coming September area move date, requires a concentrated effort and fully educated preparation…
In our new regular feature, we’ll be taking a look at the villains who are doing their best to prevent the United States from raising wages for all or some Americans. In this series, we’re going to look past the usual suspects—for example, while it is true that too often elected officials get in the…
Via APWU Arbitration Advocate Jason Treier: In her latest arbitration award (subcontracting), Arbitrator Itzla acknowledges the Service’s obligations under the ASM 535.112 to subcontract “when economically advantageous” and further solidifies the Union’s position that “availability of employees” is not a factor to be considered when making the decision to subcontract, pursuant to National Mittenthal Award. Itzla…
Tulsa’s mail-processing plant is again being targeted for closure as part of a U.S. Postal Service consolidation plan to save money. The east Tulsa mail-sorting facility is one of 82 nationwide slated to close in the second phase of the agency’s reorganization plan, which it began implementing in 2012. “What we’ve been told is very…
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) will hold a public hearing to consider the nominations of Hon. James C. Miller III, Stephen Crawford, David M. Bennett, and Victoria Reggie Kennedy to be Governors of the U.S. Postal Service on Monday, July 14,…
