July 2007 Presidents Report

by

George Prusak, President

Something new and innovative

MARK YOUR CALENDARS – MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2007 AT 3:00

We are currently working with Blog Talk Radio, an Internet radio show provider, to provide us with a one hour spot per month. This would be a live show in which members can call in and ask questions or to offer opinions. In addition, we would be allowed to have guests, who could be some of our national officers who would answer your questions on certain topics or bring in specialists in OWCP or FMLA.

For those of you who could not listen to the show live, it will be available for you to listen to by downloading or streaming at a more convenient time for yourself. 

We would like some input from you as to what would be a good time and day of the week to do the show. Though we know some of you will have to be working during the broadcast we want to do it at a time where most of you would be able to listen in and participate.

Though this is still early in the planning stages, and we have a lot of bugs to work out, we will go on the air on Monday, August 20 at 3:00 PM. If there are any changes to this Date and time they will be posted on our web site at www. CPWU.org.

To actually listen to the show you can click a link from our website or go to www.BlogTalkRadio.com/cpwu. Once you’re there and we’re on the air you will see a click to listen button. That’s all you have to do is click to listen. You’ll also see a phone number of where you can call in if you wish to participate. It’s going to be that simple.

This is going to be a learning experience for all of us, but I believe that by getting you the member more involved it will be good for the CPWU as a whole. This will be your show, whether it be a comment or a complaint we will talk about it.

So I will be looking for you to give us a call on Monday, August 20, 2007 at 3:00 PM.

Now to some not so good news

I have recently heard some disturbing news that can have a negative effect on some PTF’s  in some of the smaller offices.  The news is that PMR’s are going to be hired in lieu of PTF’s.  In addition, PTF’s currently on the rolls will have their hours cut to work the PMR’s more hours.

The American Postal Workers Union needs all bargaining unit employees to be vigilant and inform us if they hear of any changes coming down in the smaller offices.  We want to nip this in the bud early and the only way he has to do that is for you to let us know if you hear anything regarding the use of PMR’s

Though we have no hard evidence that the postal service is going to do this, we are taking this rumor seriously and we want you to do the same.