Web News Article #: 205-2015 10/29/2015 – Last year, more than 36,000 postal workers were injured or sickened at work and at least 10 suffered fatalities. “Here’s the simple truth,” APWU President Mark Dimondstein and Industrial Relations Director Tony D. McKinnon Sr. wrote in a letter to local and state presidents and national officers. “If…
APWU News Service Bulletin 12-2015 10/05/2015 – Declaring that “there are far too many serious safety problems at post offices and facilities,” APWU President Mark Dimondstein and Industrial Relations Director Tony D. McKinnon Sr. are calling on union members across the country to launch a Safety Awareness and Enforcement Campaign in mid-October. “Even the Postal…
Web News Article #: 151-2015 07/30/2015 – After an onsite inspection, OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) slammed the Postal Service with five citations for violating safety standards at a post office located in Kent, WA, on July 1. OSHA also imposed a total of $16,000 in fines. Four of the violations were labeled “serious:”…
Web News Article #: 077-2015 04/07/2015 – The labor movement will observe Workers Memorial Day on Tues. April 28, to commemorate those who have been killed or injured on the job and to revitalize the fight for workplace safety. Workers Memorial Day coincides with the anniversary of passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act…
April 1, 2015 Employer name: United States Postal Service Investigation site: 2643 N. Clark, Chicago, IL 60614 Date investigation initiated and what prompted inspection: On Jan. 14, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Chicago North Area Office initiated an inspection of the mail sorting facility after receiving a complaint alleging unsafe…
By Matt Kelley – March 16, 2015 A post office in central Iowa is facing a sizeable fine for alleged safety violations, according to Scott Allen, spokesman for the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA. “OSHA did issue citations to the Des Moines Main Post Office for one repeat and two…
In light of the Ebola virus outbreak abroad and the recent Ebola cases in the U.S., employers should be aware of the laws implicated in their treatment of employees. Though employment issues related to Ebola may appear to be novel, employers faced very similar issues in the 1980s involving AIDS, and more recently in 2009…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A postal employee at the main U.S. Post Office was taken to Rhode Island Hospital early Thursday morning after a forklift he was operating accidentally struck a support beam inside the facility at 24 Corliss St., according to the Providence police. The man was taken to Rhode Island Hospital with injuries that…
