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APWU
Workplace Enviornment
Surveys: Did You
Complete Yours?
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Postal
workers, like all
workers, deserve a job
where we can show up,
safely do our work, and
clock out knowing that
we put in a good day’s
work. But a vicious
cycle of toxic work
culture and short
staffing is hurting
postal workers and the
communities we serve.
We are speaking up
together to demand
dignity and respect from
postal management so
that we can end the
short-staffing crisis,
stop toxic management
practices, and keep
delivering a strong
public Postal Service.
How can get involved?
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Wear a sticker! Three
stickers are
available in the
designs above.
Let management know
how you feel! (note:
clerks should not
wear the stickers
while working the
window)
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Take
the Workplace
Environment Survey! This
is not USPS's
silly "Voice of the
Employee" which
should be boycotted.
This survey was
prepared by, and
for, the APWU to
give members accross
the country a chance
to tell us the good,
bad, and ugly, about
their facility.
The more surveys
submitted, the
better picture we
will get and we can
identify problem
offices and
managers. You
can submit the
survey anonymously,
but we do need to
know what office you
work in. You
can complete the
survey online! Click
here to take the
survey online!
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Record a
Video! Take
a minute to record a
video sharing how
ending hostile
workplaces in USPS
facilities can help
you deliver better
services. Click
here to record a
video!
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Net-to-Bank (Direct
Deposit) & Allotments
Available on
Liteblue / PostalEase
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Charlie
Cash, APWU Director of
Industrial Relations,
reports that access to
Net-to-Bank and
allotments is once again
available on liteblue.
Both features were
locked as a result of
the hacking scams going
around in late 2022.
The USPS has re-opened
these options for a
short time in January
2023, but quickly closed
them again as there were
still concerns about
security. Employee
should now have full
access to make changes
to their allotments or
direct deposit.
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eOPF access
blocked - Employees Can
Request Hard Copies
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The USPS has blocked
access to employee
personell folders (eOPF)
on liteblue due to
concerns about security.
The documents in an
employees OPF contain
sensitive information
(i.e. social security
numbers, former
addresses, maiden names,
date of birth, high
school attended, etc...)
Some of this information
is the kind used for
security questions to
reset passwords for
online accounts.
The Postal Service has
employed an Artifical
Intelligence (AI)
program to scour the
eOPF documents of all
employees. The AI
program is redacting,
and obscuring, sensitive
information.
However, the AI program
cannot identify
hand-written
information. As a
result, the USPS must
review the eOPF for
every employee and
manually redact any
information the AI
program may have missed.
The USPS indicates it
may take six months, or
more, to complete this
process. Until
that time, the eOPF
feature will be
unavailable.
The USPS has indictaed
that employee may
request printed copies
of their eOPF, at no
charge, by contacting
their district office:
From the USPS "Employees
may request a copy of
their eOPFs in person or
in writing to their
district Human Resource
Office.
If the request is made
in writing, they will be
requested to provide
proof of identity. No
charges will be assessed
of active employees for
requested copies of hard
copies of their eOPFs
while the eOPF system
remains unavailable due
to security upgrades." The
Postal Service has
provided the following
contact information for
eOPF requests.
District |
Contact |
email |
Phone |
Address |
PA-1 |
Lori Price |
lori.a.price@usps.gov |
412-359-7687 |
1001 California
Ave
Pittsburgh, PA
15290-9998 |
DE-PA2 |
Julie Campbell |
julie.campbell@usps.gov |
215-863-5034 |
3190 S 70th St
Philadelphia,
PA 19053-9994 |
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON
LITEBLUE SCAMS!!
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APWU members are warned of two scams
that have been occuring involving
liteblue. The first involves
scammers that call employees and
claim to be Postal Inpectors.
The inform the employee that their
liteblue access has been locked and,
in order to unlock it, the employee
needs to verify their identify by
providing the employee ID number and
liteblue password. If the
scammers get the info, they log on
to the employee's account and change
thjeir direct deposit information to
send their paycheck to another bank
account.
The second scam affects people who
use Google searches to log on to
liteblue. When they do a
Google search for liteblue, some of
the results that come up lead to
fake liteblue sites. The
scammers hope you input your
information so they can steal it.
More detailed information is on the
APWU website. Read it
HERE
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We have completed negotaitions and
signed-off on the 2021 - 2024
Maintenance Craft Local Memoiradum
of Understanding for the Lehigh
Valley P&DC. We are in the
process of having new LMOU books
printed for every Maintenance Craft
member at the plant. Until
they are ready, we have posted a
copy of the new LMOU
HERE.
Feel free to look it over and ask
any questions you may have.
We are also planning to set up a
number of Zoom meetings, with
maintenance craft employees, to go
over the changes int he agreement.
Keep an eye on the bulletin board
for dates / times of meeting
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PTF / PSE CANVASSING
MOVES ONLINE
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Effective February 01, 2022, the
USPS will be moving all PTF/PSE
Canvassing bids online as part of
eReassign on litbelue. Both
the APWU and USPS realized there
were problems with the current
canvassing processes because some
offices failed (refused?) to share
the printed canvassing notices with
their employees. This resulted
in many PTFs missing out on the
opportunity to change offices, and
PSEs were denied the opportunity to
convert to a career position.
This new, digital, process will
remove that obstacle and grant all
employees equal opportunities to
bid. Postmasters in all
offices have been instructed to give
a service talk and post notices
about this new process. In
anticipation of the fact that some
will "forget" to do it, you can view
the posting
HERE.
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PRE-PRINT COPY OF NEW
CONTRACT
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The APWU has released a pre-print
copy of the tentative agreement.
This is a draft version which is
pending proofreading and final
editing before being printed and
sent out to all members for the
ratification vote. You can get
a head start on preparing for the
vote if you want to review the
document
HERE
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COVID-19 INFORMATION &
RESOURCES PAGE ADDED
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With COVID surging across the
District and the country, we have
created a separate page for COVID
related resources, information, and
forms. This information
includes:
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Information about filing and
OWCP claim when you are out of
work due to COVID
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Step-by-step instructions for
filing a claim using the
web-based e-Comp site
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Links
to carious documents, tutorials,
Memorandums of Understanding,
and other COVID stuff
Check out
the
COVID-19 page
now.
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2022 LOCAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
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JANUARY 09, 2022 |
FEBRUARY 06, 2022 |
APRIL 10, 2022 |
MAY 15, 2022 |
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022 |
NOVEMBER 06, 2022 |
The Local will also be
hosting
Area Informational Meetings
in: |
March 2022
- (Date / Location TBD) |
June 2022
- (Date / Location
TBD) |
October 25, 2022
- Stroudsburg |
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RMD CALL
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877-477-3273
TTY 866-833-8777 |
USPS
EMERGENCY HOTLINE
888-363-7462 |
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LV P&DC JOB POSTING |
MANUAL POSTING
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PTF / PSE Canvassing |
PTF/PSE Canvassing
is available on
liteblue
1st - 10th &
15th - 25th each month |
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