Official Northwest Illinois Area Local Website

Updated  May 05, 2008

     Next General Membership Meeting Sunday May 11, 2008 at 2:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Final 2008 NWIAL Election Results . . . . . . .See Update 2008 NWIAL Election below  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See Updated Floorspread May 05, 2008 by NWIAL Pres. Jackie Engelhart . . . . . Click on Floorspread below . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See NWIAL's Human Relations Report on "Airborne Paper Fiber-Nuisance Dust or Killer??" . . . click on NWIAL's Human Relations Report below . . . .     

Update 2008 NWIAL Election and Results

Pictures of Reassessment Seminar

Upgrade Records to Be Updated May 16

The Postal Service has informed the APWU that postal records will be updated 

May 16, 2008, to reflect the Feb. 16 pay upgrade of all APWU-represented employees.

Workers Memorial Day

On April 28 each year, the labor movement observes Workers Memorial Day to 

commemorate workers who have been killed or injured on the job, and to renew the 

fight for safety-and-health protections. This year’s theme is, Good Jobs, Safe Jobs. For All.

Mail Network Protection Act
Gains Eight More Co-Sponsors

Eight more members of the U.S. House of Representatives have become co-sponsors of the

 Mail Network Protection Act (H.R. 4236) in the past two weeks, thanks to continuing 

outreach efforts by APWU locals. The legislation would help reduce wasteful, inefficient, and 

detrimental subcontracting by requiring the USPS to bargain with postal unions 

before it engages in significant contracting-out.

Creativity Contest!

If your child or grandchild is a bidding musician, filmmaker, 

poet or graphic artiest, the APWU has a contest for them. 

APWU Donation to Save Small-Town Post Office

The APWU has given a one-of-a-kind gift to the people of McCausland, Iowa: a donation of

 $30,000 to help save their post office. The contribution will pay for renovations to a building the small

 town purchased in order to stave off threats by the USPS to discontinue regular postal service for its 300 residents.

Burrus Asks Bush to Appoint
Postal Service Advisory Council

APWU President William Burrus has asked President Bush to appoint a Postal Service 

Advisory Council, noting that the appointment of the panel is required by federal law. “The

 Postal Service is required to ‘consult with and receive the advice of the Advisory Council 

regarding all aspects of postal operations,’” Burrus wrote in an April 11 letter to Bush. [PDF]

APWU Members
Lead the Charge
In Defense of FMLA

APWU members rose to an important challenge in recent weeks: Postal workers submitted

 more than half of the postings to a Department of Labor Web site that features comments 

regarding proposed revisions to the Family & Medical Leave Act that would weaken the law. 

By the deadline for submissions on April 11, more than 1,600 comments had been 

posted on www.regulations.gov; of those, approximately 900 were from postal workers.

APWU Endorses Sen. Barack Obama

The National Executive Board of the American Postal Workers Union has voted

 unanimously to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.