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Convention Call - 2024
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The
Pennsylvania Postal Workers Union 2024 Convention will
be held from May 03 - May 05, 2024 in Pittsburgh, PA.
There will be a Tri-State Educational Seminar
immediately preceding the convetion.
The Convention will be held at the
Doubletree Hotel at 1 Bigelow Square. You can make
reservations by calling 1-800-8667, or the hotel direct
line at 412-281-5800. Mention booking code "PWC"
or "Postal Workers convention to get the negoiated room
rate of $159.00 for a single or double room. Rates
are good from Wednesday, May 1st through Sunday, May 05,
2024.
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PPWU Scholarship Rules Updated
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The
Pennsylvania Postal Workers Union has revised the rules
for applicants seeking the John T. Boxler scholarship.
You can read the rules, and download an application
HERE.
The Deadline to submit an
application for the scholarship is May 1st
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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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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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PLUSS STEWARD SCHOOL
April 21 - 26, 2024
Morgantown, WV
more info |
TRI-STATE SEMINAR
May 2 -3, 2024
Pittsburgh, PA |
PPWU CONVENTION
May 3 - 5, 2024
Pittsburgh, PA
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APWU CRAFT CONFERENCE
July 13 - 14, 2024
Detroit, MI |
APWU NATIONAL CONVENTION
July 15-18, 2024
Detroit, MI |
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Barbedette
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Felisner
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Flaherty
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Gumble
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Guthrie
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Isenburg
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Career - Gouldsboro
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Susan
Kinsella
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Marisa
Klinger
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Vicki
Mains
PSE - Montrose
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Keegan
McNeal
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Andrew
Nemours
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Konora
Pettis
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Melissa
Rothermel
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Shaw
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Jeffrey
Smith
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Smith-Harvey
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Sweitzer
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Sweigert
PSE - Hopewell
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Winklebleck
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Bryant
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Zebroaski
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