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TAKE ACTION NOW - DON'T DELAY! by Larry Miller, President It is imperative that all Postal Employees take action and take it now concerning senate bill S1507. This bill was designed to provide relief to the service and the APWU did support it, but now an amendment has been added that could be devastating to you and your fellow workers. Go to the National APWU website and click on the ICON to contact your senators and fill out the requested information. A message will be sent to your senators indicating the APWU's concern over this bill. DO IT and DO IT NOW or next year's contract negotiations could be, and no doubt will be, something you will not be happy about. Encourage your family and friends to make a submission and/or contact their senators also. We need to defeat this bill. Click here to go directly to the APWU email generator. This is an example of what will be sent on your behalf: [recipient address was inserted here] Dear [recipient name was inserted here], I urge you to oppose the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Funding Reform Act of 2009 (S. 1507). An amendment to the bill, offered by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and adopted by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, would require arbitrators to take the financial health of the Postal Service into account when ruling on postal workers' contracts. Under current law, arbitrators must consider the "comparability" of postal wages to employees in the private sector who perform similar work. The provision renders the bill unacceptable to postal workers, because it interferes with our collective bargaining process. Arbitrators routinely consider the Postal Service's financial status as part of the context in which negotiations are conducted. However, attaching this specific requirement to the law leaves workers at a severe disadvantage, and makes the bargaining process subject to manipulation. S. 1507 was intended to provide short-term financial relief to the cash-strapped Postal Service, a goal I support. However, the Coburn amendment makes the bill unacceptable.
Larry Miller
President 480-481 Area Local APWU |
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The 480-481 Area Local maintains offices at 810 Livernois in Ferndale, Michigan 48220 and represents all APWU members in the following USPS installations: Almont, Allen Park, Anchorville, Belleville, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Brighton, Carleton, Chelsea, Clarkston, Clawson, Davisburg, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Fair Haven, Flat Rock, Garden City, Grosse Ile, Hartland, Hazel Park, Highland, Keego Harbor, Lake Orion, Marine City, Marysville, Michigan Metroplex, Milan, Milford, Mt. Clemens, New Baltimore, New Boston, New Haven, New Hudson, Novi, Oxford, Pickney, Plymouth, Port Huron, Richmond, Rochester, Rockwood, Romeo, Romulus, Royal Oak, South Lyon, South Rockwood, St. Clair, Sterling Heights, Trenton, Union Lake, Utica, Walled Lake, Warren, Washington, Waterford, Wayne, Westland, Willis, Wixom, Wyandotte and Yale.
The Union office is normally open from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Monday through Friday and the telephone numbers are (248) 543-3262/3263/3264. The 24 hour number is (248) 543-3262. FAX: (248) 543-2750.