08/31/2016 – The Postal Service has taken subcontracting of Support Services to new heights and APWU members are fighting back, Director Steve Brooks reported to APWU members at the craft conference held prior to the National Convention. Management has exceeded the permitted number of subcontracted computer programmers and is even hiring outside of the four […]
HERNDON, Va., Jan. 6, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Command Security Corporation (NYSE MKT: MOC) announced today the award of two United States Postal Service (USPS) contracts valued at approximately $250 million over a ten year term of service. On December 31, 2014, Command Security Corporation received notification of the award of an approximate $20 million […]
APWU: Maintenance Craft Wins $8.64 Million Remedy for Improper Subcontracting According to Steven G. Raymer, National APWU Director, Maintenance Division and : Short Summary of the 18 year grievance: National Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled that evidence presented in arbitration supports a finding maintenance bargaining unit employees had the skill and capability to install cabling for […]
(Reuters) – Hundreds of postal workers from around the country protested outside a Staples store in downtown Chicago on Tuesday over a program that allows postal services to be sold at more than 80 Staples retail outlets. Postal workers have complained about the program for months, saying the “mini-post offices” staffed by non-union workers will […]
By Bill Brickley | June 3, 2014 | Bill Brickley, Featured, Union, USPS Shira Goodman, North American Commercial President for Staples couldn’t hide her contempt for Postal Workers when she spoke to hundreds of Staples employees in her first ever Town Hall style meeting. Ms. Goodman chastised Postal Workers with several disparaging remarks including: “It must be […]
Portions of the letter dated April 26, 2013 sent by USPS to APWU: Pursuant to Article 32.1.8 and the Memorandum Of UnderstandIng (MOU) “Re: Consideration of National Outsourcing Initiatives,” notice Is hereby given that the Postal Service Is considering subcontracting the highway movement of mail in approximately 162 Postal Vehicle Services (PVS) sites nationwide. Significant […]
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 […]
The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) today released its biennial “High Risk Series” report. The report identifies those agencies most at risk of waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, or in need of reform. The U.S. Postal Service’s long-term outlook remains on the GAO’s high-risk list. The GAO first placed USPS on the high-risk list in April 2001 […]
APWU News The union won a major victory against subcontracting Feb. 10, when Arbitrator Shyam Das directed the USPS to assign Maintenance Craft employees to maintain computers at approximately 8,000 of the nation’s largest associate offices. The arbitrator also instructed management and the union to discuss the possibility of assigning additional computer maintenance work at […]