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The Maintenance Division and the Article 12 Notification Process
May 21, 2024
Maintenance Craft Director Idowu Balogun provides information on the Article 12 notification process, and the steps required in our Collective Bargaining Agreement prior to excessing.
Solidarity Is The Antidote to a Toxic Workplace
May 21, 2024
As the “Chief Spokesperson” for the 2024 contract negotiations, I have both a huge and humbling task. The outcome of negotiations, whether through a voluntary agreement or through a contract imposed upon us by an interest arbitration panel, will...
Clerk Craft Prepares For National Arbitrations in December on Two Important Issues
November 20, 2020
The Clerk Craft has been preparing for arbitration hearings in December that will cover two issues – 1) the Postmaster End of Day (PMEOD) button remedy case, and 2) an RI-399 issue regarding the craft jurisdiction for the Advanced Facer Canceller...
Penalty Overtime Exclusion Period, New Leave Year
November 20, 2020
Reminder, in accordance with Article 8, sections 4 and 5, of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, penalty overtime rules are not applicable for a consecutive four-week period each year during December.
This year, the December period begins November...
APWU Members and Allies Continue Push to Save the Post Office
November 19, 2020
On November 17, APWU members and community allies came together in virtual and in-person events across the country to reaffirm our demands for $25 billion in immediate COVID-19 financial relief from Congress and a permanent reversal of Postmaster...
Stepping up in a Challenging Year
November 17, 2020
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
As 2020 comes to an end, we reflect on the many challenges throughout the year we have faced. These include the COVID-19 pandemic, drastic...
A 'New Normal' at the End of 2020
November 17, 2020
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
Who would have thought what we considered the “norm” at the beginning of 2020 would look so different today? Ringing in the 2020 New Year was in...