Official Northwest Illinois Area Local Website

Updated  January 10, 2010

     General Membership Meeting Sunday January 10, 2010 at 2:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See Updated Floorspread December 24, 2009 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 . . . .     

Workers in Small Offices

We Want to Hear From You

Postal employees in small offices whose hours have been reduced while

 managerial hours have been increased are being asked to complete and 

return a union-sponsored questionnaire [PDF] on the subject. Work-hours for 

part-time flexible clerks at many small offices have been slashed, APWU 

President William Burrus noted in a 

column in the January/February issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.

The Challenge: Postal Wages and Discounts

In a continuing effort to influence our contract negotiations, the postmaster 

general and spokesmen for major mailers have repeatedly suggested 

that postal employees’ wages and benefits are excessive.

Their claims are spurious, but our disagreement on this subject will not be resolved 

through debate between mailing-industry white papers and articles in union publications. 

The best resolution would be for one side to accept the logic of the other, 

and apply the result to wage-setting for postal employees.

Victory: FERS Sick-Leave Credit Becomes Law

(10/28/09) President Obama signed legislation Oct. 28 that will allow postal 

and federal workers who retire under the Federal Employees Retirement 

System (FERS) to receive credit for sick leave when they retire. The new benefit 

was included among a number of pay and retirement provisions 

in a compromise version of the 2010 Defense Authorization bill.