Local Union News

Mail Aid All Missive

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:50:02 -0400

Mail Aid
by
Pam Amado and Carl Imboden

This is a rotten time to be a postal worker. Electronic communication is diminishing our mail stream while our managers attempt to outsource and automate our jobs. What we need is Mail Aid, an increase in the mail stream that simultaneously provides us with more work and slows our society's rush to a paperless world. In the absence of any rock stars to hold a Mail Aid concert, we'll have to create the change ourselves through the way we interact with the Post Office as consumers. Your purchasing power could save some postal worker his job--it might even save your job--so please carefully consider some questions about your spending habits.

Brother, Can You Spare A Stamp?

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:02:06 -0400

by
Pam Amado and Carl Imboden
(two beleaguered postal workers)

Hello, Dear Reader.

You've probably received this letter because you know a postal worker. It's a bad time to work for the United States Postal Service (USPS), because electronic communication and a downsliding economy are reducing the mail stream while postal managers simultaneously scheme to replace us with machines. They'll even use machines that don't deliver mail as well as we do, provided the machine is cheaper than we are.

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12th Annual Miami Heat Family Festival Big Top by the Bay

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:44:54 -0500
2009 Circus Themed Event Will Include A Circus Performance, Family Activities, Food Court And A Silent Auction Purchase A Family Festival Ticket Package Before February 9th & Get Second Event Free—Benihana Celebrity Cook Off Dear Professional Colleagues and Friends: The Miami HEAT announced it will host the “Big Top by the Bay”. The 12th Annual Miami HEAT Family Festival is an interactive celebration benefiting SafeSpace, the Jackson Memorial Foundation’s Guardian Angels and Holtz Children’s Hospital, the Miami Coalition for a Safe & Drug Free Community, and the Miami HEAT Charitable Fund. The event will take place on Sunday, March 29 from 4:00PM – 7:00PM at Island Gardens (Watson Island) in Miami and it would be my pleasure to see YOU there! The Miami HEAT Family Festival, which is the Miami HEAT Charitable Fund’s largest annual fundraiser, is a themed, interactive, carnival-like celebration in which HEAT players, coaches, celebrities and families come together for a day of fun, family and feasting. The Festival features a dining extravaganza drawing the top restaurants and chefs from all over South Florida. Families enjoy countless interactive activities with HEAT players, coaches and their families, providing a memorable experience for guests of all ages.
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Postal Service plans to overhaul delivery network, close facilities

Wayne Parker — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:01:02 -0400

Article from federaltimes.com about Postal Reform issues and closing facilities.
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Local Members contribute to COLA

Thomas Farlow — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:06:45 -0400
Thank you to 2 local members.
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APWU Members Can Access, Update Personal Information Online

Thomas Farlow — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:26:10 -0500
(02/06/08) APWU members can now access and change their personal contact information with the union online when they visit www.apwu.org. The updating process is simple and secure. Look for Members Only just under the blue page header, and select My Local & Personal Info. This will take you to on log-in page. Follow the log-in instructions to access your member-profile page.
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Save your Sick Leave

Wayne Parker — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:29:18 -0500

Deal reached on bill to compensate feds for unused sick leave

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Voting Today and how to communicate with your Elected Officials

Thomas Farlow — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:39:43 -0500
I was searching on the APWU Postal Press webiste and I came along this little gem.
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The APWU joins the nation in remembering Dr. Martin Luther King.

Thomas Farlow — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:17:27 -0500

Read about Dr. King and the 1968
Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike
Click here to read

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Whatever Happened to the Eight Hour Day?

Thomas Farlow — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:37:06 -0500
‘By: Steve Early & Suzanne Gordon'
What Ever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?
www.thenation.com Posted October 23, 2007
One afternoon in mid-August, Senator Hillary Clinton visited a Nevada hospital to participate in a union-sponsored "Walk a Day in My Shoes" program for presidential candidates. There she learned firsthand about the new realities of work schedules for nurses--and many other wage-earners. Clinton expressed amazement at the workload of a typical healthcare professional. "Your mother worked me to the bone today," she told the children of Michelle Estrada, RN, during a dinner-table conversation at their home later that evening.
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