Dimondstein: ‘Postal Workers Earn the Right to Be Justly Compensated for Our Service and Hard Work’

Web News Article #: 022-2016 – 02/17/2016 On the opening day of arbitration for a new contract, APWU President Mark Dimondstein stated the union’s case in an impassioned presentation to the arbitration panel. The text is below. “The interests of the 200,000 postal workers represented by the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, are contained in…

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USPS OIG Blog: Finances Stabilize, or Maybe Not

It’s hard to know whether the U.S. Postal Service should have as its theme song “We’re in the Money” or “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” Its just-released financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 suggest both are accurate – depending on how you read the statements. Spurred by record volume of holiday…

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