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March 23, 2010
A Historic Win for Working People
“After a century of struggle and more than a year of heated debate, President Barack Obama has signed into law sweeping healthcare reform that represe...
March 22, 2010
A Bold Move to Attract Young Union Activists
In a dramatic attempt to encourage greater participation by young workers, APWU President William Burrus has announced that the national union will he...
March 22, 2010
View 40th Anniversary Discussion Online
APWU members can view a video of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum’s 40th anniversary commemorative discussion of the Great Postal Strike of 1970...
March 20, 2010
PRC Report Finds Excessive Postage Discounts
Confirming charges the APWU has made for more than a decade, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) concluded on March 29 that the Postal Service gran...
March 18, 2010
APWU Denounces Five-Day Mail Delivery, Urges Congress to Correct Pre-Funding Requirement
In testimony submitted to a Senate subcommittee March 18, APWU President William Burrus denounced Postal Service plans to eliminate Saturday mail deli...
March 16, 2010
Setting the Record Straight on Five-Day Delivery
The Postal Service’s proposal to eliminate Saturday mail delivery has been widely reported, but most news articles fail to address the devastating eff...
March 11, 2010
Commission Sharply Criticizes USPS Station Closure Plans
March 8, 2010
APWU Urges Members To Support Six-Day Mail Delivery
The APWU is asking union members to contact their U.S. Representatives and encourage them to co-sponsor House Resolution 173, which urges the Postal S...
March 3, 2010
Union Rejects USPS Call For Five-Day Delivery, New Business Model
APWU President William Burrus condemned USPS proposals to reduce mail delivery to five days per week, saying, “It would be the beginning of the demise...
March 3, 2010
RSVP for the Postal Strike 40th Anniversary Event!
Due to space concerns, reservations are now requested from union members who plan to attend a Smithsonian National Postal Museum program on March 20 m...
February 26, 2010
APWU Wins Important Maintenance Subcontracting Grievance
The union won a major victory against subcontracting Feb. 10, when Arbitrator Shyam Das directed the USPS to assign Maintenance Craft employees to mai...
February 24, 2010
APWU Rallies in Support of TSO Rights
APWU officers and staff joined hundreds of other union members and labor activists at a rally Feb. 23 in support of collective bargaining rights for t...
February 22, 2010
USPS Refuses to Sever Ties with Subcontractor that Defrauds Drivers of Wages, Benefits
Last month, newspapers reported a settlement between the Department of Labor and a USPS subcontractor that exemplifies the problem with postal subcont...
February 22, 2010
President Burrus to Speak At Postal Strike Anniversary Program
February 17, 2010
Celebrating the Women of the APWU
In honor of the countless contributions that the women of the APWU make to their union, to the labor movement, and to their families, the National Exe...
February 10, 2010
COLA Update
In January, the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) rose to 633.176, well below the July 2008 index of 644.303 upon which the last COLA increase was based.
February 5, 2010
Obama: Postal Privatization a ‘Bad Idea’
President Obama said in an interview posted on YouTube on Feb. 1 that privatization of the USPS would be a “bad idea.” He made the comment during a ro...
February 5, 2010
Obama Budget Promises Strong Support for USPS
The Obama administration’s 2011 budget [excerpt] calls for a continuation of six-day mail delivery and says the White House “will work with the Postal...
February 1, 2010
Union Urges Locals to File OSHA Complaints On Dangerous Instructions for Electrical Work
The APWU is urging local unions to file complaints with OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, following the publication by the Post...
January 29, 2010
USPS Trims List to 162
The USPS announced Jan. 29 that the list of stations and branches being considered for closure has been reduced to 162, six less than the last update...
January 29, 2010
Springfield Area Local Reaches MTESC Agreement
After seven months of negotiations, the Springfield (MA) Area Local reached a tentative agreement with Alan Ritchey, Inc. on a new Collective Bargaini...
January 25, 2010
Union Plus, APWU Scholarship Application Deadlines Near
Union members with children who will be graduating from high school this year are reminded that the application deadline for Union Plus scholarships i...
January 19, 2010
USPS Can’t Rationalize ‘Network Rationalization’
Echoing APWU criticisms, a recent audit by the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concluded that after more than five years of initiatives aim...
January 19, 2010
Breen Chosen to Replace McLennan as Clerk NBA
Tim Breen, a member of the Greater Cincinnati Ohio Area Local, has been appointed to serve as Clerk Division National Business Agent “C” for the Cinci...
January 13, 2010
National Healthcare Day of Action
It’s now or never for healthcare reform, and the unions of the AFL-CIO are urging their members to participate in a National Healthcare Day of Action....
January 12, 2010
USPS Medical Units Phase-Out Begins
In the first stage of a process that will affect approximately 130 APWU-represented nurses, most of the 51 Postal Service clinical-care medical units...
January 5, 2010
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January 1, 2010
OSHA Standards
Safety standards published by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) require employers to provide appropriate electrical protective...
December 31, 2009
Black Women Advance Labor’s Cause In an Unlikely Setting: 1881 Atlanta
A little known yet largely successful job action waged in 1881 by black women in Atlanta is credited with helping to set the stage for a century of la...
December 28, 2009
Clerk NBA Shirley McLennan
The APWU was sorry to learn that National Business Agent Shirley McLennan passed away on Dec. 24 after a long battle with cancer.