The following is an mail exchange on the Employee Engagement Program via Sam Wood, President – Southwest Florida Area Local / APWU: From: SWoodFla@aol.com To: Dennis.V.Humphrey@usps.gov CC: DmGray1963@aol.com Sent: 9/15/2016 11:37:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time Subj: Re: Employee Engagement Program Dennis, I read your e-mail that you sent to Dan Gray (below) concerning the “Employee … Read more
Via Sam Wood, President – Southwest Florida Area Local: Attached is a document containing the Tentative Agreements rolled in to the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement (Goldberg Award) I have added this document along with the full Goldberg Award, my summary of the Goldberg Award and my highlights and timeline spreadsheet to the Southwest Florida Area Local website at: … Read more
Via Sam Wood, President – Southwest Florida Area Local Congratulations to President Gary Hamrick and the Palm Beach (Florida) Area Local for fighting back on the issue of Premium Forwarding Service. Congratulations as well go to APWU Advocate Jim DeMauro for another outstanding win for the APWU. Jim DeMauro has not received (in my opinion) … Read more
Via Sam Wood, President – Southwest Florida Area Local / APWU: This morning the Southwest Florida Area Local – American Postal Workers Union signed a $5.2 million settlement from the 2013 Arbitrator Hales award (Fort Myers P&DC). The award sustained the SWFAL-APWU’s position that the USPS took Flats Preparation work away from the Clerk Craft … Read more
I have NEW updated APWU FMLA Forms that were created by Kathleen Kaplan (Florida State OWCP Representative), Tony Neri (Florida Maintenance Craft Director), Joni Jacobs Esq. and Tony McKinnon (National Industrial Relations Director). These forms are more user friendly and can be downloaded from the attached link to the Southwest Florida Area Local – APWU … Read more
Last month, Employees at the Fort Myers Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) began receiving service talks about the USPS’s latest version of the Voice of the Employee (VOE) Survey, called the “Postal Pulse”. In these service talks, supervisors stated that the APWU among other Unions and Management associations expressed their support for this new survey … Read more