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November 8, 2025
Understanding Autism
Autism is a developmental disorder that severely impairs a person's ability to communicate and socially interact with others. It affects 500,000 Americans, occurring four times more often among boys than among girls. The...
November 8, 2025
U.S. House Approves Ryan Budget that Slashes Medicare
In a nearly party-line vote, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted 219-205 on Thursday to approve a 2015 budget plan unveiled last week by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the House Budget Committee. Ryan’s...
November 8, 2025
Save Social Security
The current debate over the nation’s deficit is being used as an excuse to advocate privatization of Social Security and Medicare, yet nearly 70 percent of Democrats and Republicans oppose cutting these vital programs, a...
November 8, 2025
Award on Annual Leave Exchange Option
In a national-level arbitration award, Arbitrator Linda Byars sustained the union's grievance protesting management’s decision to exclude part-time flexibles (PTFs) from the negotiated Annual Leave Exchange program.
November 8, 2025
Maintaining Your Membership
We receive requests every day asking how those about to retire can continue their membership in the union. The following are summaries of the constitutional requirements for maintaining status as a member of the APWU.
November 8, 2025
Safety Hazard on APPS Prime Function May Cause Serious Injury and Loss of Life
APWU members are advised not to use the “prime function” to pre-load belts on APPS (Automated Package Processing System) machines.
November 8, 2025
A New Day, A New Way in Organizing
A bright new day is here. As your newly elected director of Organization, I want to congratulate all the new and re-elected officers. To those who have left office, thank you for your years of dedication to the APWU. Wit...
November 8, 2025
DSI Positions to be Posted Installation-Wide
A Feb. 21, 2008, letter [PDF] from the Postal Service confirms a long-held APWU position: Driver-Safety Instructor (DSI) duty assignments must be posted installation-wide, without exception. The letter from the USPS mana...
November 8, 2025
Building a Better Department
Retirees are an invaluable asset to the American Postal Workers Union.
November 8, 2025
The ‘3-Day Waiting Period’
Despite a long and hard-fought battle by the APWU, on Dec. 20, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which included provisions that we vehemently opposed.
November 8, 2025
e-Team Report, Aug. 26, 2011
What Cannot be Won at the Bargaining Table by the Postal Service, Could be Changed on Capitol Hill There is a Solution other than Withdrawing from Federal Benefit Plans League of Women Voters Files Suit in WI; PA Secreta...
November 8, 2025
Protestors Rally to Save Distribution Centers
Protesters lined the sidewalk in front of the post office at Bay and Fahm streets in Savannah, GA, Oct. 15 to express their disapproval of the planned closure of the area’s mail processing and distribution center. Earlie...
November 8, 2025
OWCP Updates
The Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs has made several important changes in recent months. Below is a summary.
November 8, 2025
Dispute Over PMRs with Dual Appointments as Casuals Working in Skilled Positions
A national-level grievance has been filed concerning the use of non-bargaining unit employees (PMRs) with a dual appointment as a casual being utilized in assignments requiring training and testing in violation of Articl...
November 8, 2025
e-Team Report, May 17, 2013
Legislative & Political Director Myke Reid Announces Retirement, Gary Kloepfer Accepts Director Position Postal Reform Bills Gain Co-Sponsors, More Support Needed One week left for ‘We the People’ Petition to White House
November 8, 2025
For Active Reservists and National Guard Differential Pay, At Last
In February, the Postal Service notified the APWU that it was finally ready to comply with its obligation to grant “differential pay” to employees who have been called to active duty since March 14, 2009.
November 8, 2025
Be Informed About Medicare
issues/joinstay-involvedMedicare Open Season is Jan. 1 through March 31 for those who have missed their regular enrollment period. Eligible postal employees and retirees are encouraged to look into the benefits of enroll...
November 8, 2025
Dispute Filed Over USPS Failure to Create Bargaining Unit Jobs at Greensboro HRSSC
The APWU has filed a national-level dispute over the Postal Service's failure to create bargaining unit positions at the Human Resources Shared Services Center (HRSSC) in Greensboro, NC. The union contends, among other t...
November 8, 2025
e-Team Report, Jan. 11, 2013
Hilda Solis Out as Labor Secretary “Leonard Montalto Post Office Building” 113th Congress by the Numbers Share the Wealth
November 8, 2025
Protect Your FMLA and USERRA Rights
The APWU has received complaints from union members recently of instances where the Postal Service is violating their rights under federal law, most notably the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) and the Uniform...
November 8, 2025
Make a Donation Today!
All monetary donations should be made payable to APWU (Supports Our Troops and Veterans) — indicate in the memo on your check or money order which Support Our Troops program you are contributing to. Donations received th...
November 8, 2025
PSE Pay, Sunday Premium
For many years part-time flexibles ( PTFS ) have questioned why their overtime rates of pay were calculated differently than full-time employees. Now we have Postal Support Employees (PSEs), and their overtime rates are...
November 8, 2025
Sunday Premium Settlement
A pre-arbitration settlement (USPS #Q98C-4Q-C 00165413 and Q98C-4Q-C 00152463) reversing changes to the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) that eliminated the payment of Sunday premium for hours not actually worke...
November 8, 2025
Premium Conversion Legislation for Retirees
On July 16 - more than three years after the legislation was first introduced - the House Civil Service and Agency Reorganization Subcommittee approved Rep. Tom Davis' (R-VA) bill to allow federal and military retirees t...
November 8, 2025
Another Survey Suggests U.S. Middle Class is Falling Behind
While income gains for the richest Americans are outpacing their global peers, The New York Times reports that lower- and middle- income tiers in other advanced nations have made greater gains over the last three decades...
November 8, 2025
Survey Says: Most Americans Oppose Plant Closures
I have always been skeptical of surveys conducted by the Postal Service, because they seem to be designed to generate responses that would justify cutting service, closing postal facilities, or reducing employees’ pay. B...
November 8, 2025
Award on Casuals Working Tour Two
In a national-level award, Arbitrator Shyam Das has ruled that Tour 1 casuals may continue to work past 5 a.m., concluding that the intent of the 2006-2010 Collective Bargaining Agreement is to prevent management from as...
November 8, 2025
Half-Mile Move Prompts DHL Demand: ‘Re-Apply for Your Job
Shipping giant DHL is closing down a processing center near Allentown, PA, and opening a new facility, also near Allentown, PA. In fact, the two workplaces are a half-mile apart, which has not prevented the company from...
November 8, 2025
2012 Death on the Job Report
The AFL-CIO Safety and Health Department released its 2012 Death on the Job Report May 2, 2012. The final fatality data reported 4,690 fatal work injuries in 2010, up from 4,551 in 2009 and an increase in the fatality ra...
November 8, 2025
e-Team Report, March 2, 2012
Cutbacks at the U.S. Postal Service Kicking the Transportation Bill Down the Road If Postal Service Ax Delivery Standards, Will Elections Suffer?