A settlement agreement has been reached between the Postal Service and all four postal unions, including the NPMHU, affirming the right of the unions to bargain with the Postal Service over a massive data security breach that took place in 2014. The settlement has been approved by the National Labor Relations Board, and will require […]
APWU, Sister Postal Unions Win Right to Bargain Over Cyber Intrusions 06/02/2015 – In a precedent-setting agreement approved by the National Labor Relations Board, the APWU and its sister postal unions won the right to bargain with the Postal Service over a massive data security breach that took place in 2014. The historic May 19 […]
USPS settles NLRB complaint over data breach Last month APWU reported: In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cited the Postal Service for failing to bargain with the APWU over last year’s massive data security breach. The incident which was revealed to the union and employees in mid-November, compromised the personal information […]
NRLCA Announces: NLRB Issues Complaint Against United States Postal Service for Failing to Bargain Over and Provide Information to National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association Regarding Massive USPS Data Breach ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a Complaint against the Postal Service alleging that it violated federal labor law by failing to […]
1.8.15 Stealing of healthcare related information is highly lucrative for the cyber criminals. Incidentally, the data servers of the United States Postal Service (USPS) were illegally tapped into in September, but the information about the crime surfaced in November. The coordinated stealth attack was earlier estimated to have resulted in almost 800,000 USPS employees having […]
1/6/2015 – Hackers who broke into the Postal Service’s information systems in September may have accessed up to 485,000 people’s medical records, the agency now says. Potential victims include current and former postal employees who filed injury compensation claims between November 1980 and August 2012. Some of those who had left the Postal Service years […]
12.18.14 The Mail Handlers Union reported: In a new development on the earlier data breach at the Postal Service, USPS has now sent individual letters to another group of employees who may have had personal information compromised. USPS informed us that a large number of Workers Compensation records were “possibly” compromised, in some cases including […]
On November 10, 2014 USPS said workers compensation records of postal employees may have been compromised. On November 20, 2014 APWU said ” Apparently, information regarding OWCP records that were shared with the Department of Labor exposed medical records, bank account and routing information for tens of thousands of employees and retirees. The Postal Service […]
Several days ago USPS posted a reminder that a personalized letter from the PMG was recently sent to postal employees’ home address following the cyber intrusion into some USPS information systems. The letter was also sent to postal employees who left USPS after May 2012. According to USPS the letter, which was sent via First-Class […]
Postal Service takes restrained, methodical approach to cyberattack. Was this the right strategy When US Postal Service (USPS) officials received word about a major network intrusion earlier this year, one of its first instructions was to take no immediate action. In an effort to prevent the intruders from knowing they had been discovered, the postal […]