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What’s Up With That?
Burrus Update #06-07, Feb. 9, 2007
More than 8,000 APWU members welcomed the opportunity to embark on a new chapter of their lives in 2003, when the union negotiated Voluntary Early Retirement Authority for our members as part of a two-year contract extension.
But the president of a sister postal union thought otherwise, and expressed negative views about the APWU’s negotiated benefit. In his union’s July 10, 2003, Bulletin, the president of our sister union opined that his members were not receiving such offers “because the future for them is brighter than those in the other crafts.
“There is no need to downsize” their craft, he wrote.
The article concluded with the following rundown of the APWU’s early-out provision: “In short, it is not a good deal.”
Now, during the 2006 negotiations, what is a top priority for this sister union? You guessed it — early-out retirements. What was “not a good deal” in 2003 has become a bargaining priority in 2007.
What’s up!!!
William Burrus
President
