The PSE stole $6,423.67 in postal funds and property and issued 41 money orders in the amount of $552.00 from 9/20/13 to 9/30/13/ OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) — A Scooba woman has been indicted on charges she took cash and other property for her own use while working at the U. S. Post Office in Artesia. […]
Postal Support Employees should beware of management’s latest ploy, union leaders are warning: Beginning in April, the Postal Service plans to ask non-career employees to take Voice of the Employee (VOE) surveys. Management is after a lot more than meets the eye, according to APWU Executive Vice President Debby Szeredy. “What management won’t tell you […]
Staircase to success Unique approach turns applicants into career employees In his latest State of the Business message, PMG Pat Donahoe calls on career employees to “reach out” to the thousands of new employees now entering the Postal Service. The Milwaukee Post Office has taken this message to heart. According to Postmaster Easton Wright, the […]
A March 28 agreement with the USPS [PDF] outlines the procedure for the conversion of Maintenance Craft Postal Support Employees to career, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced. The Memorandum of Understanding is a follow-up to an agreement signed by President Mark Dimondstein on March 20 that outlines the procedure for filling residual vacancies […]
Settlement Will Result in PSE, PTF Conversions An important March 20 agreement between the APWU and USPS outlines a procedure for filling residual vacancies in the Clerk, Maintenance and Motor Vehicle Crafts, and will result in the conversion of Postal Support Employees to career status and the conversion of Part-Time Flexible Clerks to full-time, APWU […]
Brown was a Postal Support Employee Mail Processing Clerk Dallas police are investigating the shooting death of a man who, according to witnesses, was shot by the very people he had just tried to help. Rubin Brown, 27, was shot multiple times early Thursday when someone fired upwards of 23 bullets into his house and […]
Converted Unencumbered Regulars to be Assigned to Residual Vacancies The Postal Service has withdrawn a challenge to provisions in the Collective Bargaining Agreement that require management to post newly created duty assignments using all available work hours — including hours worked by Postal Support Employees, Clerk Craft officers report. “I am happy to announce this […]
ATLANTA —A spike in missing mail complaints at a midtown Atlanta U.S. Post Office led investigators to arrest a postal worker on mail obstruction charges. Investigators with the Office of the Inspector General said they observed Ronald Paige stealing packages and rifling through mail. During an interview with investigators, Paige admitted to stealing parcels for […]
PSEs Not in Clerk Complement for Lead Clerks (01/16/14) In a decision [PDF] issued Jan. 10, Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled that Clerk Craft PSEs should not be included in the Clerk Craft complement for the purpose of determining whether Lead Clerk positions must be created in a facility. The Postal Service initiated this dispute, arguing […]
USPS OIG Audit report: Use of Postal Support Employees in Customer Service Operation In the 2010-2015 American Postal Workers Union’s National Labor Agreement (National Agreement), the U.S. Postal Service created a new category of non-career employees called postal support employees (PSEs) to increase its workforce flexibility and reduce labor costs. PSEs have no daily or […]