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Showing posts with label Postal early-retirement offers. Show all posts
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5.16.2012

No postal facility closures this summer

USPS Announces ‘Modified Consolidation Plan’

"... “The Postal Service is working with its unions regarding an employee incentive offer and will announce details when final decisions are made,” but the USPS and APWU have not been negotiating about incentives, Guffey said.

The talk for employees who interact with customers says, “Some consolidation activities will begin this summer, but there will be no facilities closures this summer.” The other talks do not include this language, nor does the letter to the APWU. (In fact, the stand-up talks for other employees refer to “closing facility.”)..."  Click to Read More
Source: www.apwu.org

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10.11.2008

Next step for USPS: Layoffs?


"... But some observers fear the next two rounds of early-retirement offers will not produce similarly good response rates. That’s because the economy is worsening and the offers do not come with financial incentives. In short, it’s a scary time to leave a job. “It makes little sense to leave a good paying job with benefits to enter the troubled economy unless there is incentive to do so,..."  
Source: federaltimes.com




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