Don Cheney The USPS is hiring career clerks off-the-street in hard-to-fill locations – even today. Thirty-one openings are available in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. The hourly pay rate ranges from $19.13 to $26.08. The list changes daily. Most are only open a … Read more
Q: Where does it say: “The Postal Service is committed to fair treatment of all its employees.” A: ELM 673.223
Senator Tom Carper’s new bill to ‘Save the U.S. Postal Service’ will mean health benefit cuts and premium increases for many postal workers and retirees. It would create a unique Postal Service Health Benefits Program that all postal employees and annuitants must participate in (except PCES). If it is like the existing USPS Health Benefits … Read more
NLRB Gives Labor a Major Win in Subcontractor Case This NLRB ruling could have major implications for the U.S. Postal Service, which likes to outsource bargaining-unit work. The so-called “independent” contractors it hires are not. This could boost union organizing efforts among subcontractors. One place I’d like to see organized by the APWU is the … Read more
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 … Read more
“204b” originated from the Postal Field Service Compensation Act [Public Law 84–68] that took effect on 12-03-1955. It meant higher level.
The NALC and USPS have agreed to renew three Memorandums of Understanding: Re: Full-time Regular Opportunities – City Letter Carrier Craft (M-01856), Re: Sunday Delivery – City Carrier Assistant Staffing (M-01857), and Re: Signing Overtime Lists (M-01858). The MOUs remain largely unchanged except for one significant change in M-01857, where the parties agreed that city … Read more
Attached is a current list of all 29,946 postal facilities in the United States. These are postal-owned or leased buildings staffed with postal employees. This list includes the facility name, facility type, street address, nine-digit Zip code and finance number. I’ve noticed that postal job offers are sometimes lacking this information. The CBA makes a … Read more