Hillary Clinton to huddle privately with top labor leaders, APWU President Dimondstein not invited

By Annie Karni – June 30, 2015 Hillary Clinton will attend an informal, intimate get-together for national and international labor leaders at campaign chairman John Podesta’s Washington, D.C., home on July 14, sources told POLITICO. The event, which takes place amid lingering concerns in the labor community over Clinton’s stance on trade, is scheduled for…

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APWU: NLRB Strikes Major Blow to USPS-Staples Deal

Proposed Remedy Would Restore Work to APWU Bargaining Unit Web News Article #: 139-2015 07/01/2015 – In a major blow to the Postal Service’s deal with Staples, Region 5 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a complaint charging that the USPS illegally subcontracted work to the office-supply chain and ordering the agency…

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Video: USPS sends lost mail items to Atlanta to be claimed or auctioned online

By Marshall Zelinger – June 30, 2015 HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. – When your package gets lost in the mail, the items inside don’t always go unused. A Denver-area man shipped nine boxes of his own book to be sold at a conference, but four of those boxes never made it. “Slight problem. 88 of the…

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