Web News Article #: 022-2016 – 02/17/2016 On the opening day of arbitration for a new contract, APWU President Mark Dimondstein stated the unionâs case in an impassioned presentation to the arbitration panel. The text is below. âThe interests of the 200,000 postal workers represented by the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, are contained in…
Itâs hard to know whether the U.S. Postal Service should have as its theme song âWeâre in the Moneyâ or âBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?â Its just-released financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 suggest both are accurate â depending on how you read the statements. Spurred by record volume of holiday…
The Postal Serviceâs retirement team is the best-rated in the federal government, new research shows.  The team has a 96 percent accuracy rate in evaluating, processing and finalizing retirement applications, according to a recent audit by the Office of Personnel Management. The government-wide average is 89.7 percent. The Postal Serviceâs high score means that retiring…
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February 13, 2016 The U.S. Postal Service hopes to bring on 125,000 new employees this year, continuing a recent hiring binge caused by the agency’s blossoming package-delivery business. The agency hired 117,000 new workers during Fiscal Year 2015, virtually all of them into non-career positions, postal officials said Thursday in a document presented to the…
USPS is offering employees tips to protect themselves from the Zika virus, which has been spreading throughout the Caribbean, including the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The virus is transmitted through mosquito bites. Symptoms include fever, joint pain, muscle aches, rash and conjunctivitis. Most people will not experience symptoms. Most individuals who contract the…
By Joe Davidson – February 14, 2016 After years of singing the blues, postal officials had reason for a praise song. For the first time in almost five years, they reported a U.S. Postal Service quarterly net profit. The $307 million in net income for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, which ended Dec….
By Dave Statter – February 13, 2016 Iâve long felt blocking a fire hydrant is an enormously selfish act that shouldnât be tolerated â especially if itâs a government vehicle doing the blocking. You would hope (and sometimes be very disappointed) that people who drive official vehicles (especially the ones that are marked) would be…
