I don’t know if you guys were able to participate in the teleconference with APWU HQ for the town hall meeting, but there was something I learned that will spell trouble for present and future impacted employees. I was not aware that the MOU 50-mile limit to excessing expires with the 2010 CBA. Whether we…
The following was cut and pasted from an email I sent to a Union sister who wanted some info as to how we have been affected by Phase II and what they can expect. It got me thinking about how I wished like hell I would’ve been in touch with someone with that kind of…
Is there any news out there of 60 day letters being received by ANY craft employees at the affected processing facilities with a ‘network rationalization consolidation’ date in April? If not, what does this mean? Also, business agents should have received notification for facilities closing in July and, as far as I can find out,…
We received excessing letters in Lexington, KY asking for information about driving records and applications for other crafts. The local Labor Relations said there would be disciplinary action if we didn’t comply. Is this right? Please, please help.
APWU Web News Article #: 173-14 09/19/2014 – The APWU and USPS settled an important dispute, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced, stipulating that the Postal Service cannot declare an installation “non-maintenance capable” and use the designation to justify excessing Maintenance Craft employees who work on Building Equipment. The work at issue is primarily…
Here we go again. The United States Postal Service is telling its employees in the Bemidji office that a bunch of them will be displaced, the preferred word is excessed, sometime after January 2015. The latest proposal is a regurgitation of the previous so called studies that have determined that the public and the Postal…
The PMG’s mad drive to undermine service and cut hours and jobs is going to get worse! His announcement to impose 82 more plant consolidations to begin in January 2015, coupled with the impacts of several hundred forced excessing events for this coming September area move date, requires a concentrated effort and fully educated preparation…
