Action Call!! Call Your Congresspeople
Thousands of APWU retirees have had their Social Security income cut by an unfair Reagan-era law. On Wednesday, Sept. 27, we’re calling our members of Congress to demand justice. Will you join in and make a call?
APWU is fighting for the repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), which reduce or eliminate benefits for retirees under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) who also qualify for Social Security through secondary employment.
In the last Congress, the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82), a legislative bill to repeal WEP and GPO, obtained 305 cosponsors. With your help, we are on track to surpass this goal! More bipartisan support means more pressure on Congress to schedule a floor vote and pass H.R. 82!
We are hosting a Call Congress Day of Action on Wednesday, Sept. 27. We are asking APWU Members and supporters to call their congressional representative and ask them to move H.R. 82 forward: either by adding their name as a cosponsor or helping schedule a floor vote.
For additional information on actions you can take, click the link below.
https://apwu.org/call
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July COLA released!
Your July COLA announced was announced today, Mike,
It's a big day if you’re a postal worker. The semi-annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) has been announced and all career employees covered by the main APWU-USPS collective bargaining agreement are getting a $0.48 per hour raise! That amounts to $998.00 a year for a full time, career postal worker.
The COLA will appear in paychecks dated Sept. 15, 2023 (Pay Period 20-2023).
These are union-won benefits. All career employees get these increases to keep up with rising inflation because APWU members fought hard and negotiated them in our union contract.
Postal Support Employees (PSEs) do not get COLA, but when they convert to career, the COLA increases are also included in their wages going forward.
Read more about your COLA and find out how you can help build a stronger union.
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We stood together and won these COLAs at the negotiating table. We showed management that thousands of us wouldn’t settle for anything less. In fact, over the course of this contract we have gotten $2.39/hour more in our paychecks just from the COLAS, not even counting our annual raises and step increases!
This is the value of a union contract, and it starts with you and me. Please take a moment today to talk to a coworker who is not in our union and explain why we should stand together in our union to win raises like the one we got today.
You can find out all about the COLA and how you can help build our union here.
We know that we’re stronger together, with everyone inside the union.
In solidarity,
Pres. Mark Dimondstein
President, APWU
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Lite Blue Issues
There are numerous scams going on with the USPS Lite Blue. It appears that hackers have developed a scam where they create fake Lite Blue sites and entice employees to attempt to log on. Your information is then stolen, and they are free to take your money. Protect yourself. Below are two emails from our Director of Industrial Relations, Charlie Cash, on the state of the issue.
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NLRB and Wearing Union shirts and buttons
Board Rules Workplace Policies Limiting Wearing Union Insignia, including Union Apparel, are Unlawful Absent Special Circumstances
08/29/2022 02:00 PM EDT
August 29, 2022
Today, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Tesla, Inc., in which the Board overruled Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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Q n A on Postal Reform and Medicare integration
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE POSTAL REFORM ACT OF 2022
Q 1: What are the major provisions of the Postal Reform Act of 2022?
A: The bill has four primary pillars:1) ending the crippling retiree health benefit pre-funding mandate, 2) providing for prospective Medicare integration, 3) adding transparency to USPS service issues, and 4) guaranteeing six-day delivery.
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Updated mask policy
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Postal Surveys raise their heads again
The Postal Service is again sending out a survey of employees, this time targeting Postal Support Employees. As the Union has for years, we urge our members to not participate in the surveys. The Postal Service manages to find ways to use the results against the Union in negotiations. They are not seeking to help employees, but for their advantage.
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NBA Coradi Meets with Senator Schumer
An Update from our National Business Agent Peter Coradi, a member of the NYS AFL-CIO Executive Council:
Good Evening Sisters & Brothers/Union Family:
Earlier today, I had the privilege to participate in a meeting with Senator Chuck Schumer, along with other members of the NY State AFL-CIO Executive Council.
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Covid-19 Decision Tree
Below are the steps that should be taken in certain cases of possible COVID-19 discovery. You should have the actual poster in your office. For a copy of the poster, click here.
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Important information
Immediate Action Required!
NEW APPROVED Retail Safe Guards & Actions to be taken in every office:
Social Distancing
· Please ensure EVERY PO has lines and sign in place today.
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Statement from President Dimondstein
Statement from President Dimondstein: Postal Workers in a Time of Crisis
Mark Dimondstein
March 25, 2020
Since the early days of the Postal Service, we postal workers have helped stitch the fabric of the country together.
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Recent and important stand up talks
These are the most recent Stand Up talks. You should have received these talks. If you are not receiving these talks, contact your Union representatives. These are talks, do not let management leave them lying around and saying you should read them. Enforce what is suggested. Social distancing is not an option, it is vital to protecting yourself.
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Use of Masks In the Post Office
Please note this important message from Director Zimmerman
Subject: Use of Masks: Surgical and N95
There have been many questions recently about the use and wearing of masks while at work. There is no dispute that an employee can wear a mask at work if they choose to do so. A concern was brought to me in regards to the “N95” masks.
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Renewed Optimism
Mike -
As we started the New Year with the delivery of more than 400,000 petition signatures to the Postmaster General, President Dimondstein had a message for all members.
"Let’s enter this year with renewed optimism and energy. I look forward to working with all of you as we continue to advance the cause of postal - and all - workers."
Watch the video here.
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Things a Member Should Do
Members, there are several things you should do periodically to protect yourself, and to assist your Union in protecting your rights.
A very important and overlooked task a member should do is periodically review their Official Personnel File. Know what is in your OPF, and if there is something that should not be in there, take action to have it removed.
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Urgent Safety Alert
Urgent Safety Alert
Breaking news: It has just been reported that explosive devices have been sent through the mail addressed to a number of high-profile individuals and corporate entities.
APWU leaders condemn such criminal acts.
Our members are rightfully deeply concerned for their own well being and that of the public we serve.
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Benefits for PSEs
As if PSEs (or any employee represented by APWU) needed any additional reasons to belong to the American Postal Workers Union, these additional benefits and rights exacted for PSEs demonstrate how hard, and continuous, APWU works for their members.
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Postal Service Unilaterally Changes Safety Program
Not surprisingly, the Postal Service has once again unilaterally changed a program within the job. This time, the Postal Service has changed the safety program, essentially ridding themselves of safety captains, local safety and health committees, and the nuisance (to managers) form 1767 report of safety problems.
This action seeks to circumvent the Union's and long standing practices.
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My job is safe. NOT!
So you thought you had a job, eh? A good job. Good days off, good hours. Seniority has its privileges, eh? You’re a senior lead clerk, level 7, do the tasks you want to do. But do TACS? No, I do not want to do that. Station inputs? No, let them find some junior clerk to do that. In fact, let management do that work.
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NO PULSE
03/02/2015 - The APWU and USPS are facing off over management’s latest scheme: The Postal Pulse, a new employee opinion survey.
“The APWU vehemently opposes Postal Pulse – and any other employee opinion survey – despite management notices that say otherwise,” said President Mark Dimondstein. A Feb.
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