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The Mail is Not for Sale!

January 8, 2025
The fast and furious online reaction to The [Washington] Post’s Dec. 19 editorial underscores how strongly the people support and trust the U.S. Postal Service.

Clerk Division Fills Two Vacant NBA Positions

January 7, 2025
Recently, two National Business Agent (NBA) positions became vacant in the Clerk Division. Robert “Bob” Romanowski left his NBA job in the Philadelphia Region when he was promoted to the newly established Assistant Director “C”, Clerk Division...

e-Team Report, April 17, 2012

Senate to Consider Postal Bill Today, April 17

'Stop Staples’ Campaign Gets Off to a Strong Start

A trial program that put postal counters in 82 Staples stores — staffed with low-paid, non-union Staples employees — is a ‘direct assault on postal jobs and public postal services,’ the union has declared. The ‘Stop Staples’ campaign got off to a...

Contract Negotiations Underway

Contract negotiations began on Sept. 1, and bargaining sessions are scheduled every week during the months of September, October, and November. The current contract expires at midnight on Nov. 20, 2010, and a lot of hard bargaining will take place...

Dispute Over Reassignment of APWU Bargaining-Unit Employees to Other Craft's Vacant Assignments

The APWU initiated a dispute over whether there is a disagreement between the parties regarding Article 12.5.C.5.a(4) or similar provisions of the National Agreement, and applicable provisions of handbooks and manuals, concerning reassignment of...

Zero Base Initiative, Zero Change

The Zero Base Initiative, which is the Postal Service’s new terminology for the old Breakthrough Productivity Initiative (BPI), is causing concern among many Motor Vehicle Craft union members. While the name has changed, the stated goal of the...

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