USPS Issues Primary Craft Determination: Mail Handlers to Perform Duties...
USPS Issues Primary Craft Determination: Mail Handlers to Perform Duties Associated with SPSS Operation On June 2, 2015, the Union recieved the Postal Service’s determination of craft jurisdiction for...
View ArticleUSPS Plant Consolidation Schedule Updated June 19, 2015
Updated 6/19/2015 – – USPS Network Rationalization Consolidation Phase II-2015. List of postal facilities that have changed move date. USPS announced its latest list of last minute “public”...
View ArticleUSPS: New Small Parcel Sorting System (SPSS) exceeds expectations
Parcels are moving faster than ever through five USPS plants that are testing new small-package sorting equipment — and exceeding expectations. Since installing the machines earlier this year, the...
View ArticleUSPS reverses Craft Determination decision for SPSS operations from Mail...
National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU: Postal Service Reneges on SPSS Craft Determination Unprecedented Reversal to Be Met With Fierce Opposition From NPMHU On August 7, 2015, the USPS notified...
View ArticleMail Handlers Union Files Labor Charge Against USPS Over SPSS decision
NPMHU APPEALS SPSS DECISION TO ARBITRATION AND NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD The NPMHU National Office has filed an appeal to arbitration concerning the disputed work on the Small Parcel Sorting...
View ArticleAPWU: Clerk Craft Resolves Dispute on Scheme Requirements
Dexterity Qualification Dispute Also Settled 01/13/2016 – The APWU and USPS reached agreement on disputes involving scheme requirements and dexterity qualifications, Clerk Craft Director Clint Burelson...
View ArticleAPWU: Initial Payments of $56 Million Settlement included in Jan 15 paychecks
$56 Million Settlement: Initial Payment Disbursed 01/15/2016 – The Postal Service has informed the APWU that initial payments of a $56 million grievance settlement were included in paychecks dated Jan....
View ArticleAPWU: Clerk Craft, Postal Service Settle Four Disputes
02/12/2016 – The Clerk Craft recently settled four disputes as part of a pre-arbitration review process that was agreed upon by APWU President Mark Dimondstein and the Postal Service, Clerk Craft...
View ArticleAfter 41 years Richmond CA window clerk says her last “May I help you, Please!”
Richmond, CA — On Friday, November 29, 2019, Sales and Service Associate Kathy Hall will greet her last customer with the phrase, “May I help you, please.” On the day after Thanksgiving, Hall can say...
View ArticleA Look Back: St. Louis postal clerks had to wade through mountains of...
12/5/2020 ST. LOUIS • With Christmas approaching in 1930 and the Depression settling hard, the Post Office downtown asked for 1,200 temporary helpers to keep up with the crush of holiday mail. More...
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