Besides you are more then likely on someone else’s computer or the free internet at the Library.    

 

I have devoted an entire page just for you the non-member. I have decided to try to attempt to show you how important it is to belong to the American Postal Workers Union. With the Postal Service continuing to improve there automation plan we continue to fight to keep jobs. The jobs that we are fighting for are everyone’s including yours. 

 

 

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   APWU  -  American Postal Workers Union AFL-CIO

                               Stamford Connecticut Area Local #240

                                  Office 203-348-6038  Fax 203-708-9997

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STAMFORD  WESTPORT  DARIEN NEW CANAAN  GREENWICH  OLD GREENWICH  COS COB  RIVERSIDE

 

 

    Many of our Non-Members often complain and use as an excuse not to join, the claim that the Union does nothing to address their personal problem or concerns, and in fact they never see the Union doing anything at all. 

 

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    On the APWU National website (APWU.org) there is a section entitled, “Ask the President”.  President Bill Burrus addresses this issue both in detail, and eloquently.

 

    President Burrus states, “All too often, the questions come from postal employees who say they are ready to quit the union and suggesting that their long-time loyalty to the union has gone unrewarded.”  He further goes on to say, “Every employee’s complaint about an improper management action is important and is deserving of the union’s vigorous support.  But I reject the overstatement that the value of the union is limited to it’s ability to correct a specific complaint.”  He also states, “The union has provided the foundation of good employment in today’s job market, which is in the throes of technological change and globalization.  Postal employees receive a reasonable salary, enjoy no-layoff protection, vacation and sick leave, health benefits and a host of other important benefits. These benefits are far more important than a complaint about an unresolved grievance.  For every unresolved complaint, the grievant should ask: Did I receive the correct pay for my grade and step?  Were my health benefits paid?  Did I get credit for retirement and was the employer’s share paid?  Did I get credit for retirement and was the employer’s share paid?  Was I credited for sick and vacation leave?  Have I been laid off?  Did I receive overtime pay or penalty pay for the overtime I performed?  Did I receive the work-hour guarantee of my position?”

 

    In my opinion, the best of President Burrus’s comments were these, “ So let us be honest in our exchange:  Grievances over conversion to full-time regular, job postings,  the hours and days of work, the use of casuals in lieu of career employees and many other objectionable management decisions deserve vigorous representation.  But let us not cloud their importance by suggesting that the value of the union is determined by their resolution.  Despite the frustration that is evident in comments sent to the union and frequent threats to leave the union, the questioners never threaten to quit their job and relinquish all of the benefit’s the union has provided.”

 

President Burrus ends his remarks with the following, “This union has done an outstanding job of representation in the most important area, providing those benefits that make employment worthwhile.  Your continued employment is evidence of the union’s effectiveness.  A case cannot be made otherwise.” 

 

   If you remain a non-member after reading these comments, I don’t know what else to tell you to get you to join the Union that represents, protects, and provides for you.  If you don’t like me, or any other officer or steward, become a member, and have us voted out, and get whom ever you think will do a better job in!

  

 

   Please  join the Union…what we do, and have done to protect your job, provide an adequate wage and benefit package, is absolutely undeniable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To contact The Stamford CT Area Local  or the webmaster by mail, phone, fax or E-mail.

Darren Galazin

President / Webmaster

                                                                       

P.O. Box 195

Stamford , CT 06904

 

   Phone: (203) 348-6038

    Fax: (203) 708-9997

  E-mail: Galazin3@aol.Com

 

Stamford CT Area Local

 

           American  Postal Workers Union