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…
By A. Woodson and Sandy English July 2, 2016 The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) has announced that a contract for over 200,000 workers may be announced as early as mid-July. A final arbitration session of a committee including a union representative, a United States Postal Service (USPS) management representative and a third, “neutral” arbiter,…
