APWU: MVS Division Settles Puerto Rico FMCSA Consent to Query Form Dispute

The Motor Vehicle Service (MVS) Division has settled a Step-4 grievance on whether MVS employees in Puerto Rico are exempt from signing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse Consent to Query form.

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USPS OIG: Express or Bust

You get what you pay for with Priority Mail Express, the U.S. Postal Service’s fastest mail product. It’s not cheap, but it comes with a money-back guarantee should USPS fall short of the promised one- or two-day delivery. The nationwide service performance goal for Priority Mail Express is 96.85 percent on time. However, it’s falling…

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USPS: Employees can volunteer to help rebuild Puerto Rico

USPS is accepting requests from employees who want to volunteer to work in Puerto Rico to help restore service following hurricanes Irma and Maria. If you wish to participate, you must submit a letter of intent no later than Friday, Oct. 20. Career and non-career employees are needed. Those selected will work in their assigned…

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Postal employees in Puerto Rico could use this water!

Via Sam Wood – President, APWU – Southwest Florida Area Local: “Here is 23 pallets of hoarded water left over after Hurricane Irma. There were many families who could have used this immediately after the Hurricane, but local management hoarded it like it was gold. That’s 1087 of 35-packs of 16.9 ounces and 416 6-packs…

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US Wins FLSA Suit By Puerto Rico USPS Workers

Law360, Los Angeles (May 08, 2014, 8:38 PM ET) — The U.S. Court of Federal Claims handed the United States a win Wednesday in a proposed class action by U.S. Postal Service workers in Puerto Rico who claimed the agency hadn’t properly paid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, ruling the USPS’ overtime pay…

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