Union Dues for CCA’s
Is it fair to CCA’s that have a lesser salary to pay the same amount of dues as career employees?
Category: General Union Business
Prospects Dim for USPS Early-Retirement Offers
October 26, 2015 U.S. Postal Service employees waiting for incentives to retire early shouldn’t get their hopes up. “It is unclear if USPS will continue to use separation incentives to reduce the size of its career workforce,” says a new Congressional Research Service report, “U.S. Postal Service Workforce Size and Employment Categories, FY 1995-FY2014.” The…
Fannie Allison’s ‘angel’ wears a postal service uniform
By Christy Wheeland – October 26, 2015 Residents and business owners in the downtown area are accustomed to receiving their mail pretty much at the same time every day. Postal carrier Aaron Hetherington makes his rounds like clockwork, greeting folks while making his deliveries. On Wednesday, Oct. 21 he was running just a few minutes…
APWU: CARA Rallies and Pickets with Stop Staples
[maxgallery id=”41952″]The event was held in conjunction with CARA’s biennial conference, which took place in Ontario, CA. Dozens of participants were bussed to picket the Staples store that afternoon. Members of the California State APWU were also on hand. “Staples plans on expanding postal services nationwide to all of their stores in the near future….
USPS OIG: How Could Mail Processing Be More Efficient at the New York Morgan Facility?
Mail processing is an integrated group of activities required to sort and distribute mail for dispatch and eventual delivery. Post offices, stations, and branches send outgoing mail to processing and distribution Centers (P&DCs) for processing and dispatch for a designated service area. They also provide instructions on the preparation of collection mail, dispatch schedules, and…
SF Postal Service Needs Workers For The Holiday Season
(October 24, 2015) SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – San Francisco postal district officials have announced they are hiring workers for the holiday season, which started Oct. 17 and goes through Jan. 8, U.S. Postal Service officials said. The district is hiring casual mail handlers, holiday clerk assistants, mail processing clerks and big-rig operators, according to postal…
Video: How Postal Workers Are Fighting Back and Winning
Published on Sep 23, 2015 Ken Lerch, longtime labor activist and the President of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 3825, discusses how postal workers are fighting back against the efforts to privatize the postal service and to bust the unions. “If we’re not prepared to strike, we won’t be successful in our fight.”…
NLRB Judges Division Issues New Edition of Bench Book
Office of Public Affairs – October 19, 2015 Washington, D.C– The Judges Division of the National Labor Relations Board has issued a new edition of the NLRB Bench Book, which replaces an earlier version issued in 2010. The Bench Book sets forth Board precedent and other rulings and authorities on recurring procedural and evidentiary issues…