US Postal Service Dealing with ‘Historic Volume of Holiday Mail
If you mailed-out holiday gifts weeks ago thinking the packages would arrive in plenty of time for Christmas Day, you may want to check the status of the delivery.
“This negative impact is compounded by the temporary employee shortage due to the COVID-19 surge, as well as ongoing capacity challenges with airlifts and trucking for moving this historic volume of mail,” said USPS spokesperson Tim Norman.
The American Postal Workers Union said nearly 19,000 postal employees are currently in quarantine after either contracting, or being exposed to, the coronavirus.
“You have to understand that we’ve had people exposed to the virus. They’ve had childcare issues or they’re not able to come to work,” said APWU Local 1 Chicago president Keith Richardson.
Preckwinkle deeply disappointed as SEIU Local 73 holds one-day strike over pay, other demands
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Illinois plans to receive its first shipments of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine as well as additional doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week, state officials said Monday.
Last week, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker expressed concern about reduced shipments of the Pfizer vaccine, saying that the state had been informed the federal government was anticipating a reduction of nearly 50% in the number of doses it was able to deliver to states in the following two weeks.
Army General Gustave Perna, the COO of Operation Warp Speed, said officials were working hard to provide accurate numbers to states, but that he was forced to lower allocations of the vaccine because of limits in the amount of “releasable doses.
Updated 12/18/2020 6:36 PM
The union representing Cook County health technicians and service and maintenance workers and some sheriff s office employees is threatening to hold a one-day strike on Tuesday over what it calls a failure of the county to engage in constructive negotiations related to pandemic protections.
Service Employees Union International Local 73 for nearly three months has attempted to bargain with Cook County, Local 73 President Dian Palmer said in a news release.
The local is seeking, among other things, pandemic pay for essential front-line workers, remote work where possible, an additional $5 an hour for workers in COVID units or taking care of COVID patients, and contact tracer jobs for 48 recorder of deeds office employees whose jobs were eliminated.
1,500 Cook County healthcare, sheriffâs employees plan day-long strike for Tuesday
By STMW NEWS
CHICAGO - More than 1,500 employees of Cook County’s healthcare and sheriff’s divisions will go on strike Tuesday if their union can’t hammer out a deal with the county for pandemic pay and safer working conditions, among other demands.
In a statement Friday, SEIU Local 73 the union representing county health technicians, service and maintenance workers, and sheriff’s office employees alleges the county has refused to bargain in good faith for nearly three months, walking out on negotiations, cancelling dates or refusing to set them altogether.
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