David Steiner began his tenure as the nation’s 76th postmaster general this week, expressing pride in the Postal Service, its employees and the organization’s public service mission.
The APWU has secured a major victory for the rights of non-probationary employees who are discharged without just cause from the Postal Service to file grievances on those discharges and have them heard in arbitration
We are extremely pleased to announce that the NPMHU has prevailed in its national arbitration against the Postal Service over the ability of the Postal Service to separate employees who have completed their probationary period based on the results of a National Agency Check with Inquiries
Subcommittee on Government Operations Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) today announced a hearing on “An Update on Mail Theft and Crime.” Mail theft continues to negatively impact communities across the country by preventing Americans from sending and receiving important documents in a timely manner
On Dec. 12, 2024, NALC joined the APWU, NPMHU, and NRLCA in a national-level arbitration concerning employees who had been separated after completing probation due to an unfavorable NACI (National Agency Check with Inquiries) background check
In OPM’s Information Technology Strategic Plan for 2023–2026, former Chief Information Officer Guy Cavallo prioritized modernization initiatives including Electronic Retirement Records (ERR), ORA, and RS Surveys. While Cavallo retired earlier this year, those efforts are now reaching employees preparing to retire in 2025.
Top Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee are pushing for an investigation into the long-standing workers’ compensation program for federal employees, saying the program is particularly “susceptible to waste, fraud and abuse.”