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Annual Leave Carryover and Exchange for Leave Year 2025
On June 12, 2024, APWU and USPS signed two MOUs renewing the Annual Leave Exchange and Annual Leave Carryover once again. This allows employees to sell up to 80 hours of annual leave (under certain conditions) and rollover 520 hours…
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Tackling Safety & Health Concerns: A Starter Guide
Article by Cameron Taylor, Maintenance Steward and Website Editor. Despite their seemingly universal lack of concern or effort, Management has an obligation to address and resolve employee complaints about safety and health. If you’re concerned about something that’s a possible…
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Leave My Leave Alone
[Taken from APWU.org. Article by Omar M. Gonzalez, September 18, 2023.] You earn leave, it’s yours! Pursuant to the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) Articles 3,5,10,19 management must comply with the leave regulations outlined in Chapter 510 of the Employee and…
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Combatting the Discipline of On-Duty Injuries (It’s Usually Illegal!)
Article by Cameron Taylor, Maintenance Steward and Website Editor. It’s not uncommon to hear that if you report an injury, Management will threaten to discipline you. Sometimes they’ll actually carry through on their threat and issue discipline, and even skip…
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OSHA Proposes $245,893 Citation for Citygate P&DC Safety Violations
Article by Cameron Taylor, Maintenance Steward and Website Editor. News has already started to spread, but the Union was notified this week that OSHA’s initial investigations (there’s also a newly-launched investigation, but more on that later) finally wrapped up. During…
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DeJoy Agrees to Temporarily Pause Plant Consolidations
Article by Cameron Taylor, Maintenance Steward and Website Editor. On May 9, 2024, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy wrote a letter responding directly to Sen. Gary Peters. While he defended many of his plans changes and its very public failures, he…
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Zero Tolerance – It’s Not Only for Craft Employees
Article by Cameron Taylor, Maintenance Steward and Website Editor. Many of us have known of a fellow craft employee placed on “emergency placement,” rightly or wrongly, for an alleged violation of the “Zero Tolerance Policy.” At the same time, all…
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It’s Time: Zero Tolerance for Bullies in Charge [2015]
[2/13/2015 by Ken Hamrick] On Nov. 8, 1991, a discharged letter carrier, armed with a loaded semiautomatic rifle, entered the Main Post Office in Royal Oak, Michigan, from an unsecured rear loading dock. Seeking out supervisors who had been…
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I Believe Our Postal Service is Quickly Changing into a Failing Business Model and Our Universal Service Obligation to America is Disappearing
[Article by Debby Szeredy, taken from APWU.org] The Postmaster General (PMG) has degraded our Service Standards and he isn’t stopping. His business plan is destroying us and has lost the confidence of our customers, which affects our mail volume and…
