Web News Article #: 78-2018 08/10/2018 – In accordance with the 2015-2018 APWU/USPS Collective Bargaining Agreement (union contract), career employees represented by the APWU will receive a 31 cent per hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), effective September 1, 2018. It will appear in paychecks dated September 21, 2018 (Pay Period 19-2018), and will total $645.00 per…
By Hector Cordon – September 9, 2016 National arbitrators recently imposed a contract on members of one of the larger unions in the United States Postal Service (USPS), providing minimal wage increase and imposing further inroads into health care benefits while maintaining a sizable “non-career” section of workers at much inferior wages and with few…
Our new APWU contract brings a new policy for transferring into residual vacancies on Ereassign . Now, only PTFs ( not FTRs ) can transfer into these positions. If no PTFs submit a request for a spot on Ereassign, then the office with the vacancy must convert a PSE to Full Time Regular. If no…
Just heard something that would be a crushing blow to everyone if true… The new contract allegedly states that Regulars cannot bid on PTF positions? This means any regular who wants to go to a part-time job as they near retirement can no longer do so? According to union officials I have talked to, they…
