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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...
Consolidation: Fighting Back
Following the consolidation of the Middlesex-Essex (MA) Processing & Distribution Center with the Boston plant in 2013, the national APWU and the Boston Area Local met with the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to file a complaint about...
Disputes Over Contract Postal Units Filed, Appealed to Arbitration
The APWU has initiated one dispute, and appealed another to national arbitration, over whether a contract postal unit (CPU) may exist in a facility when the Postal Service has use of the property by consignment or other special agreement, for...
Implementation Process Agreed To For Off-Site Safety and Health Inspections
Pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding MOU Re: Off-Site Safety and Health Program found on page 324 ofthe 2006 National Agreement requiring the National Joint Labor Management Safety and Health Committee to create an implementation process to...
We’re Not a Fee-for-Service Organization
There seems to be a misconception that labor unions are fee-for-service organizations. This notion is likely fostered by the fact that union dues fund activities that serve union members. Dues enable unions to negotiate and enforce contracts,...
A Preventable Cancer
September is “Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month,” and women are strongly urged to get screened for the human papillomavirus (HPV), which is the cause of virtually all cervical cancer, and which can be prevented.