United Parcel Service Inc. said it will spend more than $100 million to improve peak-period service after a late surge in online Christmas shopping caused missed deliveries that boosted costs. With the delivery volume growth rate during the holiday period almost twice what UPS had projected, the company had to add 30,000 more workers than […]
Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2013 Union Membership Report In 2013, the union membership rate—the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions—was 11.3 percent, the same as in 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.5 million, was little […]
Many in Rock Hill’s Barnette family will travel to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. this weekend, but the trip is not for sightseeing. The family will take part in a march and rally on Monday, the Marthin Luther King Jr. holiday, because Tyson Barnette, 26, was gunned down outside the nation’s […]
New Online Exhibition Explores Native Themes in New Deal-Era Murals (January 9, 2014) The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian have collaborated to create the digital exhibition “Indians at the Post Office: Native Themes in New Deal-Era Murals.” The exhibition features 27 murals in post offices across the […]
NALC President Fredric Rolando has released the following statement on the status of a new joint effort to identify and address safety issues for letter carriers and service to postal customers: “We have been in constant discussions with postal management at Headquarters to further develop the program to identify and address factors that contribute to […]
DOTHAN, Ala. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the U.S. Postal Service on Main Street in Dothan for four safety violations carrying $84,000 in proposed penalties following the agency’s inspection begun in July in response to a complaint.
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USPS OIG advisory report: Procurement-Related Ethical Violations at Vehicle Maintenance Facilities This report presents the results of our review of the U.S. Postal Service’s procurement-related ethical violations at vehicle maintenance facilities (VMF) (Project Number 13YG011SM000). This self-initiated review examines potential control deficiencies related to ethical violations within the Postal Service’s procurement environment. Our objective was […]
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In an interview with Wall Street Journal, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe spoke on several different topics, including privatization, labor costs, the future of mail service, package-delivery drones, cost controls, new revenue, labor changes and legislation hopes.