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December 21, 2025
No Consensus So Far on Extension of Unemployment Benefits
Negotiations to extend emergency benefits for the long-term jobless came to a standstill in the Senate on Tuesday. That leaves more than 1.4 million people without federal unemployment aid at least until late January, wh...
December 21, 2025
Contracting Enforcement
Unlike “contract enforcement,” which is the job of all good union representatives, “contracting enforcement” refers specifically our efforts to stop management from assigning our work to non-postal employees. Our ability...
December 21, 2025
PMG Seeks to Take Us Out of Federal Healthcare Plan
"The APWU will vehemently oppose any plan to take postal employees or retirees out of the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program," writes APWU Executive Vice President Greg Bell in an article for the union's magazine.
December 21, 2025
End Unwanted Telemarketing Calls
Have you ever sat down to a peaceful dinner only to be interrupted by a call from a telemarketer? If so, you’re not alone. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created the National Do- Not-Call Registry in June 20...
December 21, 2025
DHL Ordered to Stop Interfering in Ohio
An NLRB Administrative Law Judge has ruled that DHL Express of Wilmington, OH, is guilty of the unfair labor practice charges lodged against the global-delivery company by the APWU late last year.
December 21, 2025
e-Team Report, Nov. 18, 2013
New Legislative & Political Director Marcotte Set on Mobilizing APWU Members for Legislative Victory Dimondstein Vows to Broaden Support for Protecting Postal Service, Postal Jobs Facing Opposition to Harmful Postal Bi...
December 21, 2025
Award on Driver Instructor-Examiner (DIE) Qualification Standard
A national level award sustaining the APWU’s challenge to 1994 changes in the Driver Instructor and Examiner (DIE) Qualification Standard. (USPS #Q90V-4Q-C 95004852; 4/13/2004)
December 21, 2025
Veterans, Savings, a Contentious Hearing
It’s rarely quiet in the legislative arena, and as past President Moe Biller was fond of saying, “The struggle continues.” Senate bill 1950, which would have repealed a cut to cost-of-living adjustments for future milit...
December 21, 2025
Veterans’ Resources
The men and women of the armed forces have served each of us through military service to our country. The liberties we enjoy today have been won through their sacrifice. Many of our APWU brothers and sisters have served...
December 21, 2025
New Diseases Associated With Agent Orange
Those of you who served in Vietnam should know that the list of illnesses that the Veterans Administration is accepting as possibly being related to exposure to Agent Orange is growing.
December 21, 2025
Management and Privatizers: Reading from the Same Script
Instead of developing a strategy to preserve the Postal Service in the digital age, top management executives have been undermining public confidence in the USPS — angering communities and lowering employee morale with p...
December 21, 2025
Applying for Student Aid
Through Federal Student Aid, an office of the U.S. Department of Education, eligible students and their families can help fund post-secondary education via FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
December 21, 2025
e-Team Report, Feb. 10, 2013
APWU Condemns USPS Plans to Cut Service Guffey to Testify on Postal Finances 20 Years Later, The Family Medical Leave Act is Protecting Workers
December 21, 2025
Award on Closing of Medical Units
Arbitrator Linda Byars denied the APWU’s grievance over the Postal Service’s closing of medical/health units in postal facilities.
December 21, 2025
December 21, 2025
Casual Compliance Reports
Casual Compliance Reports are provided to the union on an accounting-period basis so that the APWU can monitor management’s adherence to Article 7.1.B. of the National Agreement. These reports are listed in reverse chron...
December 21, 2025
Maintenance Job Training Selection
Local management may not use non-scheduled days as a criterion for Maintenance Craft job training selection, because doing so limits the number of potential applicants and excludes viable candidates.
December 21, 2025
Right-to-Work? – Wrong!
"Right-to-work” sure sounds good. But “right-to-work” laws, which are being promoted and passed in many states around the country, are wrong for workers and wrong for America. These laws make it optional for workers cove...
December 21, 2025
Post Offices on the Auction Block
The APWU has long warned that the pro-privatization agenda being advanced by USPS executives and right-wing legislators is a big-time rip off for citizens and businesses that rely on the mail.
December 21, 2025
e-Team Report, Oct. 28, 2011
Sign the Petition! Urge Your Member of Congress to Oppose H.R. 2309! Republican Presidential Candidates Support Efforts of Governor to End Collective Bargaining for State Public Sector Workers House Committee Again Looks...
December 21, 2025
Dispute Over Subcontracting AMC Work
The APWU recently initiated a Step 4 dispute over the Postal Service’s proposal to subcontract bargaining unit work (tender and receipt of mail) at 14 Air Mail Centers/Facilities.
December 21, 2025
Veterans’ Assistance And Resource Committee
To provide additional assistance and to keep our members informed about issues that affect them, the Human Relations Department has created a Veterans' Assistance and Resource Committee. The committee has been tasked to...
December 21, 2025
Life Coaching Is Here
Life Coaching is a new, innovative resource that’s available to postal employees and their families through the Employees Assistance Program (EAP). Life Coaching is not counseling or therapy; it’s a program designed to f...
December 21, 2025
Arbitrator: Maximization Provision Only Applies to Work Hours of PTFs
A recent national arbitration award by Arbitrator Linda Byars found that the Postal Service does not have an obligation to combine the hours of all non-full-time employees, i.e. part-time regular, part-time flexible, tra...
December 21, 2025
Celebrating Older Americans
For the second year in a row, the APWU National Executive Board has adopted a resolution proclaiming May “Older Americans Month.” The board action recognizes the contributions retirees make to strengthen our activist-bas...
December 21, 2025
Hypertension Awareness
Blood pressure is the force exerted by the bloodstream as it flows through the arteries. The pressure on the arterial walls varies throughout the day, and several factors can cause blood pressure to be dangerously high r...
December 21, 2025
e-Team Report, July 15, 2011
Union Busting Buried Within Issa’s Postal Reform Bill AFL-CIO Urges Senators to Delete Section Of Senate Bill 1010 in Order to Support Fair and Free Collective Bargaining for Postal Workers Democratic Governors Associat...
December 21, 2025
e-Team Report, Aug. 2, 2013
Have You Contacted Your Lawmakers to Voice Opposition to Darrell Issa’s Devastating Postal Legislation? APWU Urges Locals to Meet with Lawmakers During August Recess Turning Back the Clock for REAL Service? Where Has All...
December 21, 2025
Annual Leave Exchange Option, PTF Employees – Remedy
In a recent national-level arbitration award by Arbitrator Byars on the remedy for depriving part-time flexible employees of the Annual Leave Exchange Option (ALEO), the arbitrator granted the union a remedy in an amount...
December 21, 2025
Marco Rubio Proposes Dismantling Medicare and Raising the Retirement Age
Today, Senator Marco Rubio insulted the American people by proposing that their most successful earned benefits program, Social Security, should be dismantled. Rubio’s plans to raise the retirement age and to privatize S...