APWU State

"Don't buy into USPS Management's and Congress's bullshit"

Local 387 voted at its February 2012 meeting, an invite to all APWU members from Locals and Members at Large from within Rhode Island to attend the Locals March 2012 meeting(for date, time and address)go to www.apwupvd.org . Anyone who wishes to attend the meeting must be an APWU member in good standing and present their APWU 2012 Union Card at the door for admittance to the meeting. There will also be a guest table set up for guests and they will have no voice or vote at the meeting until the meeting has adjourned. If they plan on attending we would like to know who is coming by having them send an e-mail to jozanian@ristateapwu.org so we can plan accordingly for food after the meeting has adjourned.

On January 14, 2012 a group of diverse individuals from the community of Grove Hall in Boston as well as from various Unions including the APWU protested the closing of the Grove Hall Post Office. Where were you APWU members? I counted between 70 and 80 attendees total from the community other Unions and the APWU. I would say that maybe, at best 15 to 20 APWU members showed up. You all should be ashamed of yourselves all of you who sat there wherever you where and said" someone else will go; there will be enough with out me i won't need to go". Well I hope other APWU members won't do the same thing when it comes time to close your job site.... And make no mistake it is coming to a PO like yours soon, if Postal management and some of those idiots in congress get their way and as long as they count on you all to let everybody else do you protesting for you....
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APWU Leadership Northeast Region;

The USPS is going to start a campaign to encourage our members to become Letter Carriers. They currently have a number of carrier vacancies that they would like to fill with our people. As you know if our people voluntarily transfer they start a new period of seniority, generally as a PTF carrier. If they are full time currently and they are excessed into the carrier craft they remain full time. With the proposal to go from 6 day to 5 day delivery currently being considered by Congress, I would discourage our members from volunteering to become carriers. The USPS says if they get 5 day delivery they can eliminate all their Q-2 positions and reduce the number of letter carriers significantly. This will lead to the junior carriers being excessed or perhaps laid off, if the USPS reduces of eliminates the layoff protection in their current round of bargaining with the NALC. So caution your members accordingly.

John H. Dirzius
Northeast Region Coordinator
American Postal Workers Union
5 N. Village Ave. Suite 3
Rockville Centre, NY 11570

"All APWU members should read this letter from National APWU Treasurer Liz Powell. The automated phone system is nothing more than a way for our National Officers to put themselves further out of touch with the States, Locals and last but not least its Members. We should all write these out of touch Individuals and tell them we don't want their automated phone system. As it is now letters written go unanswered, what do think is going to happen when this automated phone system goes in, you will not get a response from National to the voice mail you leave. Why else would they want it?"