By David Cohen You wouldnât hand your laptop to a hacker, right? Well, the Senate could make a move just as foolish. Theyâll soon vote on nominations to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors, which include a longtime advocate for postal service privatization and a lobbyist for the payday lending industry. The internet…
Web News Article #: 195-2015 10/14/2015 – Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders thrilled APWU members attending the unionâs All-Craft Conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 14. âIt was electric,â said APWU President Mark Dimondstein of the response to Sandersâ speech. Sanders told the audience of approximately 2,000 APWU members, âThe beauty of the Postal Service is…
Will the APWU attempt to get the Postal Serivce to utilize the Clerk/Special Delivery position? Delivery is increasing. This position could possibly create more opportunities for the membership and job security. This position, in my opinion, would strengthen the APWU.
By Daniel Chaitin – October 10, 2015 Less than a year after a hack affected nearly 1 million U.S. Postal Service employees, a watchdog report finds that a quarter of USPS employees are still duped into clicking scam email links. Additionally, 93 percent of the employees that clicked the phishing links did not report it…
By Stephen Ohlemacher – October 11, 2015 WASHINGTON (AP) â For just the third time in 40 years, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can expect no increase in benefits next year, unwelcome news for more than one-fifth of the nation’s population. They can blame low gas prices. By law, the…
Published on Oct 9, 2015 In honor of Harvard University Press’ release of Associate Professor Mehrsa Baradaran’s book How the Other Half Banks, there was a breakfast discussion on America’s banking system that featured: Simon Johnson, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Lisa Donner, the executive director of Americans for Financial Reform; David…
New blog for former and present TE/CCA carriers about buying their time back just as many buy their military time back: USPS City Carrier Assistant Buy-Back Option – ccabbo.blogspot.com
For over a year now, I have been inquiring about Privacy Act violations in the Springfield, Massachusetts Installation. I believe employees’ rights to privacy, medical records, as well as Injury Compensation records are being violated. We do not have anyone designated in our Installation because when they combined Springfield under Connecticut, a new district, they shut…
