On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, APWU and NLRB took on USPS and Staples in the first day of the Hearing. NLRB Administrative Law Judge Paul Bogas, presided over the court. The proceedings were open to the public and attended by APWU staff and Stop Staples activists from New York City, Philadelphia and the DC –…
Background The U.S. Postal Service has three major unions â the American Postal Workers Union, the National Association of Letter Carriers, and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union â that represent majority of non-rural bargaining employees. Each union has a collective bargaining agreement that allows it to certify Postal Service employees as union stewards who…
As everyone knows, the NPMHUâs 2011 National Agreement expires in approximately three months, on May 20, 2016. Negotiations with the Postal Service will formally commence on February 25, 2016, and preparations at the National Office have been ongoing for many months. The Postal Service continues to claim, both publicly and privately, that it is in…
February 21, 2016 PITTSBURGH (KDKA) â United States Postal Service workers protested in East Liberty Sunday morning. The group demonstrated outside the Staples store on Penn Avenue, where the U.S. Postal Service has set up non-union operations. Those in the Union fear that the U.S. Postal Service will ultimately close post offices, putting people out…
Yes, MM7s have been shown how to use a meter at IES and can verify voltage if properly trained. Does verifying have to be done when vacuuming a machine is the only task he is doing (not changing belts, gates, bearings, etc.)? By an MM7 verifying zero voltage is he saying that this machine is…
By Jeff Nowak – 2/19/2016 This is one of the most exciting days of the FMLA year for me. Literally, one of those âThe phone books are here!â days. Why? Every mid-February or so, the American Bar Associationâs Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee publishes a comprehensive report of FMLA decisions handed down by the federal…
February 20, 2016 The U.S. Postal Serviceâs aborted attempt to save money by consolidating its processing facilities backfired: It actually increased costs in 2015, USPS officials recently acknowledged. Higher transportation expenses from Phase II of the USPSâs âNetwork Rationalizationâ effort more than wiped out the programâs savings on labor and parts, the Postal Service told…
By Mel Carriere – February 18, 2016 Every day postal employees are literally beaten to near unconsciousness by safety propaganda, to the point where they are literally slipping, tripping and falling over a perilous obstacle course of posters, videos, and mind numbing management blabber related to safety in the workplace. Now I’m not here to…
