Peace Officers Memorial Day, which honors police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty, is Sunday, May 15. Postal Service facilities that are open that day are required to fly the U.S. flag at half-staff. Offices that are closed May 15 and fly the flag seven days a week should lower the…
DOL News Release – May 11, 2016 New federal requirements take effect August 10, 2016 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule to modernize injury data collection to better inform workers, employers, the public and OSHA about workplace hazards. With this new rule, OSHA is…
Hearing Date: May 11, 2016 TAKEAWAYS: Substantive and comprehensive legislative reform is urgently needed due to the deteriorating financial condition at USPS. Chairman Chaffetz announced plans to release a postal reform discussion draft in coming weeks. Lack of meaningful cost-cutting initiatives, aging delivery vehicles, and declining infrastructure contribute to the agency moving increasingly further away…
Attached are the 2016 APWU Election rules that were published in March 2016. The APWU Election Committee has a rule in Section VII that requires that endorsements of candidates be voted on at a regular membership meeting. Some locals and state organizations may be unaware of it. An Improper Executive Board Endorsement:
For Immediate Release 05/10/2016 – The following statement is from Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union: “U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan made the right call today, upholding the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to block a deeply flawed merger between Staples and Office Depot. “Starting the day this bad deal was unveiled,…
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 WASHINGTON â Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reported a net loss of $2 billion in the second quarter of fiscal year 2016. This report…
The Postal Service has reported operating revenue of $17.7 billion for fiscal 2016âs second quarter (Jan. 1-March 31, 2016), an increase of $788 million â or 4.7 percent â compared to the same period one year earlier. The increase was attributed to an 11.4 percent increase in package volumes and pricing strategies. âWhile we have…
Postal Service and National Rural Letter Carriersâ Association (NRLCA) leaders recently signed a new three-year labor contract that covers approximately 120,000 USPS employees represented by the union. The contract was signed by PMG Megan J. Brennan and NRLCA President Jeannette Dwyer at USPS headquarters in Washington, DC. It is the first negotiated agreement between the…
