By Mark Reiter – May 26, 2015 Toledo Councilman Steven Steel today demanded that the U.S. Postal Service restore the sorting of outbound mail from Toledo and halt any plans to eliminate other mail processing operations at the sorting facility on St. Clair Street. “I think the notion of consolidating mail sorting service and eliminating mail…
By Jon Chesto – May 26, 2015 A longstanding bid to move the US Postal Service sorting facility out of the way of a South Station expansion essentially remains stuck on the tracks — and may also jeopardize a second project: building a new boulevard that would let thousands of Olympics spectators walk along Fort…
May 26, 2015 The Postal Service has released a document outlining what steps VMF employees (non-bargaining EAS) should take in the wake of the VMF realignment. Source: The National Association of Postal Supervisors
Background Unscheduled leave is any absence from work that is not requested or approved in advance and could require management to replace experienced employees, resulting in additional workhours or overtime. This could negatively impact workplace productivity and morale. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) monitors unscheduled leave using the Human Resources Risk…
Few people remember when noncareer employees (90-day casuals) were part of the bargaining unit and received the same pay as career employees. The four national craft unions, negotiating together, made the fateful decision to exclude the supplemental workforce from the bargaining unit in July 1975. Former Clerk Craft Director Robert Tunstall used to remind people…
~Via Christine Lawlor-Roth – President, APWU Mid-Hudson~ Received official notification from National and Area that a Moratorium has passed and Mid Hudson Mail Processing and Distribution Centers excessing event has been put on hold until at least October. What this means for those employees who were awarded bids in the April posting, those who bid…
By Brian Mahoney – May 22, 2015 The Postal Service will settle a union complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, alleging it refused to bargain over how to compensate 800,000 employees affected by a data breach that stole their personal information. The agreement will require the USPS to negotiate over how it should respond…
By David A. Bryant – May 22, 2015 COPPERAS COVE, TX — The U.S. Postal Service held a ribbon-cutting for its first village post office to open in the city Thursday inside Candy Outfitters on Business U.S. Highway 190. Of the nearly 800 VPOs in operation across the nation, the Cove location is the only…
