DOVER, DE (CBS) — When the US Senate returns for its fall session, a Delaware senator plans to press legislation to reform the Postal Service. The Postal Reform Act of 2014 co-sponsored by Sen. Tom Carper and Republican colleague, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, already has been passed out of the Senate Committee on Homeland…
Web News Article #: 161-14 09/02/2014 – At a training session sponsored by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the union’s president J. David Cox – a fierce supporter of the APWU’s campaign to Stop Staples! – collected 423 signatures on postcards to Staples CEO Ron Sargent and took them right over to the…
Report Suggests Different Ways Agencies Can Provide EEO Information to Their Employees and Applicants (September 2, 2014) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released a new guide to help the federal government educate its employees on how to protect their rights to be free from employment discrimination. The report, A Practical…
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is going back to the mail, bucking the digital trend it embraced just 3 years ago. This month, SSA will again start mailing paper benefit statements to people at 5-year intervals. In 2011, under budget pressure, SSA stopped mailing paper statements that provide an estimate of future Social Security earnings….
After years of massive downsizing, the U.S. Postal Service’s workforce has stopped shrinking, at least temporarily. USPS recently reported having 616,025 active employees, just 362 fewer than a year ago. The number of full-timers actually inched up by 1,464, to 467,844. That’s a far cry from the previous six years, when the annual workforce reductions…
