“Keep your friends close…but your enemies closer.”Michael Corleone, in The Godfather. Michael knew that his friends would protect him but he also knew to keep an eye on his enemies and try to anticipate their moves ahead of time. Only then could he defend himself from attack. (It didn’t work so well for his brother […]
The U.S. Postal Service may be offering retirement incentives to reduce workforce numbers –but in many offices management is utilizing trumped up charges to fire employees. In a different case other than the one cited below, an employee was fired for “Irregular Attendance.” The supervisor charged the employee with fraudulently requesting 50 hours of sick […]
The Postal Worker today: FERS Disability Retirement, SSDI, and the doors opened through the recent case of Stephenson v. OPM The one who considers himself wise will always seek 3 pathways: the shortest; the most fulfilling; and the third way which, while a longer route, may teach others along the way. The one who […]
As an African American and the fact that the nation is celebrating legacy this month I want to stick to this article like postage until I get my message delivered. I would be remised if I didn’t send a shout out to all the African American employees all over the Postal Service. You work in […]
By Paul Gereffi [NALC] Branch 2550 Fort Lauderdale, FL. How does it feel to be as moocher? You wouldn’t know? Sure you do. If you’re like everyone else you’re sucking benefits from the government every day of your life. Me, too! We all are. President Reagan once said, “Government is not the SOLUTION. Government is […]
Editorial by Ronald Williams, Jr. Recently at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing the USPS Postmaster General made statements to the effect that 65,000 non-bargaining employees get no COLA or step increases. He summarized that the pay-for-performance system has been around for 10 years and his experience is that managers like it because […]
By Dan Sullivan, APWU retired, Southwest Michigan Area Local There are plenty of reasons for union members to vote in favor of the tentative agreement between the American Postal Workers Union and the Postal Service. You can find most of those reasons on the general comment and editorial pages of 21cpw.com and in the […]
The following is an editorial written for PostalReporter.com by Federal Disability Attorney Robert R. McGill The distinction between a principle and a personal choice is tantamount to a starving man eyeing a delicious red apple; the apple itself may represent the perfection of all apples, and the very beauty of the fruit may be one […]
There is a value to small-town post offices that goes well beyond a profit-and-loss statement. The U.S. Postal Service, that quasi-private, misnamed, bureaucratic monster, doesn’t get that. Since it became a curious private/government hybrid, the concept of “service” has been shunted aside by a drive to be a profit-making enterprise. Benjamin Franklin, the nation’s first […]
An exclusive Editorial to PostalReporter.com from Guy Nohrenberg Confessions of a Former Station Manager In days of double digit unemployment, where trillions of dollars of national debt mount, the leader of one of the largest civilian employers in the free world just up and declared that soon he’s retiring, because he can, with no reason given. […]