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APWU Organizing
The Future Is NOW!
(This article appears in the May/June 2008 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
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The theme is simple enough: “Organizing Is Our Future.” And the APWU is continuing its straightforward strategy to increase union membership, asking that all local and state offices develop committed organizing committees, healthy organizing budgets, and a solid plan of action.
For the second year in a row, the APWU organizing campaign is focusing on women in the workforce.
“We want to look back on 2008 and say that the campaign took place in all postal facilities in the United States and its territories,” said union Organization Director Frank A. Romero.
The union’s national headquarters has been providing organizing materials and reimbursing local and state offices 50 percent of the cost of pre-planned and approved organizing drives. “It still all comes down to one-on-one meetings,” said Northeast Regional Coordinator Liz Powell, who is spearheading the APWU “Make It a Family Affair” organizing campaign. [read more]
Women’s Organizing Campaign 2008
Continue the ‘Family’ Tradition
(02/27/08) In 2007, when the APWU launched a Women’s Organizing Campaign, the results were outstanding: Approximately 11,000 postal employees joined the APWU last year as a result of the women’s campaign and other organizing efforts. [read more]
Women Labor Leaders
Urged to Be a Force for Change
(01/01/08) Women in the labor movement must be a force for change, APWU President William Burrus told delegates to the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) convention in Las Vegas. “You must lead that change. It will not occur by itself. It won’t happen because it is time. It won’t happen because it needs to happen. It will happen because individuals will lend their back to the effort and make it happen. And you — members of CLUW — must lead that change.” [read more]
2008
Women's Organizing Campaign
