NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A driver in Jamaica, Queens witnessed danger on the road during rush hour on Monday morning. “This guy is texting while driving a truck. Doesn’t even appear that he has his head up,” the man can be heard saying while in traffic on the northbound Van Wyck Expressway near 91st Avenue […]
212 Violations? That’s Not an ‘Isolated Incident’ 212. That’s how many times the USPS failed to properly notify the APWU of management decisions to renew Highway Contract Routes (HCRs) in one year. Yet at a recent arbitration hearing, the Postal Service urged the arbitrator to deny the union’s request for a nationwide remedy for the violations, […]
A driver at a U.S. Postal Service processing center in White Plains has been arrested on charges that he stole around 40,000 plastic pallets from the facility, selling them to a cooperating witness for $1 each. Destin Lee, 53, of the Bronx, sold the pallets, which were stamped with the USPS’s name, by the truckload, […]
On March 4, 2013, arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg ruled that the USPS decision to subcontract Postal Vehicle Service work throughout California violated the contract. The following is a text of the letter from USPS sent to Omar Gonzalez, APWU Western Regional Coordinator canceling the ‘outsourcing’ of Motor Vehicle Services in California. Thanks to APWU Oakland […]
Arbitrator’s Ruling Makes Complaint Unnecessary APWU Web News Article 031-2013, March 18, 2013 The APWU has withdrawn a lawsuit aimed at stopping the Postal Service from subcontracting all Postal Vehicle Service routes in California until after the union’s grievance on the matter could be heard in arbitration. In response to the suit, the USPS agreed […]
Ruling Has Implications for All Crafts In one of the first decisions [PDF] interpreting the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement, Arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg ruled on March 4 that the USPS decision to subcontract Postal Vehicle Service work throughout California violated the contract. “This is a big win,” said President Cliff Guffey. “It demonstrates that the […]
Case Has Important Implications for All Crafts The APWU has won an important arbitration case on subcontracting in the Motor Vehicle Craft that has important implications for the entire APWU, Motor Vehicle Craft Director Bob Pritchard announced on March 5. “This is a big achievement for the union,” said APWU President Cliff Guffey. “It confirms […]
From Community and Postal Workers United (the group that held a hunger strike in DC in June) We are bringing at least 56 people to Sacramento CA to rally and march from the State Capitol to the Air Resources Board because over a thousand postal driver jobs are being cut on a flimsy environmental pretext […]