USPS OIG Report: Distribution of Repair and Maintenance Resources

Background The U.S. Postal Service operates over 29,000 retail facilities, which provide postage, products, and services to patrons in all areas and communities in the United States. To ensure these facilities are safe for both customers and employees, the Postal Service provides preventive maintenance and repair resources for their upkeep. This includes employee workhours to…

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APWU Maintenance Craft Q&A: In-Service Examinations, Register & Eligibility Ratings

January 23, 2023 On January, 18, 2023, the parties signed off National questions & answers on the In-Service Examinations, Register and Eligibility Ratings MOU. As a reminder, on an annual basis during the month of March, all career employees have the opportunity to request to be tested for Maintenance Craft eligibility ratings and placement on…

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USPS OIG Report: Efficiency of Operations at the Philadelphia P&DC

Background This report presents the results of our audit of efficiency of operations at the Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) in Philadelphia, PA. We conducted this audit to provide U.S. Postal Service management with timely information on operational risks at this P&DC. We selected the Philadelphia P&DC based on a Congressional request from Senator…

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APWU: Per Diem Update – Effective Date November 7, 2022

October 18, 2022 After meeting with the Postal Service again and scheduling an NCED site visit, we can announce that the implementation date of the per diem MOU is November 7, 2022 and will be piloted for three years for all Crafts. The current GSA rates control the per diem amount, currently at $59.00 per…

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APWU negotiated OSHA Arc Flash Training is now International Standard

Not sure if this web posting falls in line with the rules. Having made that claim I must state the issue of the post is Arc Flash. The protection against an Arc Flash has been expanded into the UK. The relevance of the Article, in my opinion is my involvement with the APWU’s protest involving…

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Information on ADUS/SDUS work for APWU Clerk and Maintenance Crafts

On Monday, September 19, 2022, Lynn Pallas-Barber <lpallas@apwu.org> wrote: To all APWU family, On Saturday, 9/17/22 Director Lamont Brooks shared a notification concerning the USPS plan to deploy additional SDUS machines to various facilities (copy attached). In addition to the information please find below an attached information on SDUS Distribution Clerk Position. We were notified…

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APWU Receives Notification USPS is Planning to Deploy Additional SDUS to Various Facilities

From: Lamont Brooks <lbrooks@apwu.org> Date: September 17, 2022 Subject: Fwd: Notification GCCC20220329 USPS Planning to Deploy Additional SDUS to Various Facilities Throughout the Country Please disseminate to the field. Please contact your respective Clerk NBA RI-399 representative or Clerk Assistant Lynn Pallas-Barber in the event you need further assistance. I have assigned Lynn Pallas-Barber as…

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