The following is an article written by Stephen Lysaght, APWU President, East Bay Area Local #47 located in Walnut Creek, CA. The issues raised in his article is happening in many USPS districts across the country–and not just in the Bay-Valley District. After years of excessing Clerks outside their installations and thereby gutting the workforce in […]
Clerk Division delegates discussed job security at their pre-convention conference on Aug. 21 and 22, debating resolutions and discussing officers’ reports about issues affecting the craft. “It’s a tough time at the Postal Service this day and age,” said Jim McCarthy, Clerk Craft Director. On Saturday, delegates discussed resolutions, many of which focused on excessing. […]
The union recently appealed to national arbitration an issue concerning the employer’s obligation to meet with the union at the regional level no less than 90 days prior to involuntarily reassigning bargaining unit employees outside their craft or installation. The dispute arose when the APWU learned that management at the regional level was taking the […]
Omar Gonzalez, APWU Western Coordinator Attached please find the Area/Regional Settlement. It provides for a one time opportunity to be offered to former clerk/maintenance employees involuntarily reassigned to the carrier craft and forced to take an exam resulting in separation. This is an optional offer. It is recommended that you make contact with the employee […]
If There Is No Work For Me, Why Are You Doing It? by Stephen Lysaght, President, APWU East Bay Area Local As has been the case every year, the Local has been very busy processing grievances in 2009. We see management violating the same contractual provisions over and over, but certain disputes have escalated. Grievances […]