THE BULLETIN BOARD
March 2009
[March 1st]Scholarship Available to PMAPWU Members
Vocational Scholarship
- Applicants must be a senior attending high school or other corresponding secondary school. Applicants must be a child or grandchild, including stepchild or legally adopted child of an active member, Retiree's Department member, or deceased member of the American Postal Workers Union.
- Type: Vocational Scholarship
- $1,000.00 for nine months each year, up to three consecutive years of school, with total not exceeding $3,000.00..
- Application is to be received no later than March 16, 2009.
- You can download an application at the APWU's scholarship information page.
The E.C. Hallbeck Memorial Scholarship
- Type: Academic Scholarship
- $1,000.00 for each of four consecutive years of college
- Applicants must be a senior attending high school or other corresponding secondary school. Applicants must be a child or grandchild, including stepchild or legally adopted child of an active member, Retiree's Department member, or deceased member of the American Postal Workers Union.
- Applications are to be received no later than March 15, 2007.
- You can download an application at the APWU's scholarship information page.
[March 1st]FMLA Coordinators Trying to Get Your Health Records?
From the Denver Mailhandlers Local 321 website:
The Postal Service is soliciting medical releases for those employees that are required to partake in the 2nd and 3rd opinion process. In doing so, the FMLA Coordinators are requiring employees to release the "specified information" to the USPS Law Department.
What legal purpose does the Law Department have with sensitive, private and personal medical information? Is the Law Department going to review x-rays and pathology tissue? The USPS letter goes on to assert that the information sought is the "minimum necessary" to accomplish the intended purpose of the request. There is nothing minimal about the information being sought. It is the Postal Services customary and routine practice to request everything.
Read the entire excerpt here.
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