Category: General Union Business
20% Missing Ballots?
By my own estimate, some 20% of the Members I have spoken to here in Atlanta say they did not receive a ballot. We are a some 2,700 Member Local and I personally polled approximately 1,000 of these. Some may have mistaken their ballot as bulk mail advertising and discarded it because this year’s ballots…
USPS OIG Report: Automated Vehicle Utilization System Mileage Use – Pacific Area
Background The U.S. Postal Service delivers almost 154.2 billion pieces of mail annually using one of the largest vehicle fleets in the country with over 214,933 Postal-owned vehicles. In fiscal year (FY) 2015, postal-owned delivery vehicles traveled over 1 billion miles nationwide, about 190 million miles more than initially estimated. Postal Service supervisors and managers…
Postal Service hiring over 200 seasonal employees in Phoenix area
By Jennifer Thomas – September 22, 2016 PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) – Those who would like some extra holiday cash may want to apply for a seasonal job with the United States Postal Service. USPS is accepting online applications for more than 200 seasonal, non-career employees to work in Phoenix. The Postal Service said applicants must be…
Enough is Enough! – from Director Raymer
Dear Friends, It is important to me, personally, that you know the facts. I have been informed that a certain ex-officer has accused me of using Union funds from the AOI settlement to directly finance campaign efforts this election. Nothing could be farther from the truth and this slanderous allegation is an outright lie! It’s…
USPS’s Viewpoint on Custodial Team Cleaning – MS-47 TL-5
The attached USPS PowerPoint and article in the Professional Retail Store Maintenance magazine extolls the virtues of the USPS transition to a new cleaning methodology called Custodial Team Cleaning. They expect it to reduce 700 full-time equivalent positions. In exchange the APWU got maintenance PSEs converted to career status and other goodies. The PowerPoint was…
APWU Installation of Officers – Nov. 5, 2016
Web News Article #: 211-2016 09/15/2016 – APWU members and guests are invited to attend the Installation of National Officers Dinner on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Washington Hilton Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC 20009, (202) 483-3000. The ceremonial affair will feature the swearing-in of new and returning officers and the ticket price…
Investigating grease fire at maintenance facility, OSHA finds USPS failed to maintain working fire extinguishers
Employer name: U.S. Postal Service 1720 Market St. St. Louis, Missouri Citations issued: Sept. 13, 2016 Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration‘s St. Louis Area Office has cited the U.S. Postal Service’s vehicle maintenance facility for one repeated and two serious safety violations. Investigating a report of a fire…