Official Northwest Illinois
Area Local Website
Updated May 05, 2008
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Northwest Illinois Area Local 7140
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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.
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.
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.
NWIAL's Human Relations Report
(Airbourne Paper Fiber-Nuisance Dust or Killer?)
LiteBlue
(Home PC Access to PostalEASE)
FMLA CLASS ACTION POSTAL REFORM
ANTHRAX INFORMATION UPDATE INFO
OFFICERS FLOOR SPREAD (Newsletters)
ASSOCIATE OFFICES SEND MESSAGE
FOR WINDOW CLERKS DIRECTIONS TO UNION OFFICE
MUTUAL TRANSFER NAME OR ADDRESS CHANGE
APWU FACTS REAL FACTS ABOUT POSTAL SERVICE
PAY INFORMATION LINKS OTHER LOCAL LINKS
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The Northwest Illinois Area Local 7140 of the APWU represents more than 2,000 members in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, at Carol Stream P&DC IL, Palatine P&DC IL, and the Chicago Metro Surface Hub, and the following Associate Offices: Franklin Park, Highland Park, Kenilworth, Melrose Park, Mount Prospect, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Northbrook, River Grove, Winnetka, Glencoe, Glenview, Lake Forest, Golf, Techny, Wilmette, Wheaton and Winfield. |
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