APWU Detroit District Area Local

David L. Watkins is a children's book author. A native Detroiter, David attended Mackenzie High School and Wayne State University. He has been affiliated with the Motown Writers' Network and the Detroit Writers' Guild, which uses one of David's poems on their website.

　　 David has also been a member of such diverse organizations as P.E.T.A., MENSA and WINGS, a women's support group who has selected David as a member of their advisory board.

　　 Watkins has worked with youth at the Boys Club of Highland Park and Detroit Job Corps. He has witnessed episodes of bullying. His first book, Benny and the Basketball Bully, is an anti-bullying book which has been sold at area bookstores, including Dickson's Bible and Bookstore and Baker's Bible Bookstore. David and his lovely wife, Linda, have put together two books in their Growing Up Series for youngsters and are working on a third.

　　 When not writing, drawing or speaking, David works at the Post Office, where he has been a loyal member of the American Postal Workers' Union for thirty years.

WAKE UP, APWU
MEMBERSHIP!!!

Congress will be making major decisions about the future of the Postal Service. Will Congress consider the concerns of USPS customers and hard-working postal employees? Not unless we tell them, they won’t! Whether you are a political junkie, or you avoid politicians at all costs, you need to WAKE UP to the fact that politics and legislation will decide the future of your job.

Observer Article on Union action at Thaddeus McCotter office

Detroit Area U.S. Representative's Offices

Hansen Clarke (D) District 13 Office: 400 Monroe, Suite 260, Detroit, MI 48226

John Conyers, Jr. (D) District 14 Office: 669 Federal Bldg., 231 W. Lafayette, Detroit MI 48226

John Dingell (D) District 15 Office: 19855 W. Outer Drive, Suite 103E, Dearborn, MI 48124

**Thaddeus McCotter (R) District 11 Office: 17197 N. Laurel Park Drive, Livonia, MI 48152 (APWU DDAL is concentrating efforts on this office)

**CandIce Miller (R)District 10 Office: 48701 Van Dyke, Shelby Township, MI 48317

Sander Levin (D) District 12 Office: 27085 Gratiot Avenue, Roseville, MI 48066

Gary Peters (D) District 9 Office: 560 Kirts Boulevard, Troy, MI 48084

**Mike Rogers (R)District 8 Office: 1000 West St. Joseph, Suite 300, Lansing, MI 48915

SENATORS:
Carl Levin (D) Office: Patrick McNamara Federal Bldg., 477 Michigan,
Suite 1860, Detroit, MI 48226
Office: 30500 Van Dyke Ave., Suite 206, Warren, MI 48093

Debbie Stabenow (D) Office: 243 W. Congress, Suite 550, Detroit, MI 48226

** Republican Congress Persons who have not signed on to HR 1351.

October Breast Cancer Awareness Bulletin (pdf)

Detroit City Stations Bulletin (pdf)

POWER Scholarship Winners Bulletin (pdf)

DDAL Photos

June 24, 2010, GWY Rally
Building the Fight for 6-day Delivery

APWU Opposes USPS Surveys

The APWU opposes worker participation in USPS employee opinion surveys.

The union's policy, adopted by the National Executive Board in 1998 contests the use of all surveys, focus groups, polls and audits as a means of interviewing employees and union officials to evaluate job related and internal union issues.

Employees should remember that opinion surveys are often designed to elicit a specific response or result, historically against our bargaining unit employees.

APWU advises all Employees to read the entire survey on-the-clock. When finished reading, rip their survey up, and place it back into the envelope to return to Management. If you do not destroy the survey, management can take the blank survey and have an opportunity to complete it themselves.