What do you do when your post office may close?

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The time is now to get involved. Do not wait until it is gone!!!!

With headlines predicting the imminent demise of the Postal Service and management exploiting the crisis to attack postal employees, NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. The APWU is asking Union members to contact their members of Congress and urge them to take action to save the USPS and PROTECT OUR JOBS!!!

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The Postal Service keeps talking about how it needs to act “like a business,” and that’s why it wants to “optimize” the retail network and “optimize” the workforce by closing thousands of post offices and putting hundreds of thousands out of work.  But what kind of business would treat its customers and employees this way?

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At a meeting between APWU officers and USPS officials in Washington DC on Aug. 16, the Postal Service acknowledged that local managers have no authority to post more Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) assignments in Customer Service areas than the number needed to accommodate Part-Time Flexibles and Part-Time Regulars when they are converted to full time on Aug. 27, Director of Industrial Relations Mike Morris has reported. A provision of the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement requires the Postal Service to convert all PTFs in Level 21-and-above offices and PTRs in the Clerk Craft and MVS Craft on Aug. 27.

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The American Postal Workers Union has initiated four Step 4's protesting violation of the 2010-2015 CBA.

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The Federal Times is reporting that the USPS plans to close 60 percent of the 508 mail processing plants by the end of next year. Click link to read more.

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