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July 25, 2019
Our Advantage is in Our Numbers – Let’s Use It
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Negotiation Goals The Clerk Craft’s goals during contract negotiations include steps towards starting all employees as c...
July 24, 2019
Members Are Asking…
Members have legitimate questions and deserve factual answers. “Why are we facing interest arbitration for a new contract when there was a tentative agreement?” “What was in it?” “Why didn’t I get a vote?” “When am I rec...
June 4, 2019
Contract Mediation Ending
On June 3, President Mark Dimondstein and Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman reported to the APWU National Executive Council (NEC) that the contract mediator stated that the APWU and the USPS were too far apar...
June 3, 2019
Fighting Back Against Outrageous Demands
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The next two stages in the battle to achieve a good new union contract are mediation (currently underway and projected to l...
May 21, 2019
Don’t Let the Postal Service Take Your Pulse!
It is that time of the year when the Postal Service wants to take your pulse! Like previous years, the 2018 Postal Pulse survey showed the USPS what we already knew: Your work environment is not good; your supervisors t...
May 3, 2019
Contract Update
The APWU is continuing to move forward towards interest arbitration. Preparation of hearing presentations, evidence, and witnesses is occurring every day. The craft directors and their assistant directors are working tog...
April 22, 2019
Salmon Co. Drivers in El Paso, TX Unanimously Ratify Collective Bargaining Agreement
Drivers from the newly unionized Salmon Co. in El Paso, TX unanimously ratified the terms of their first Collective Bargaining Agreement. These APWU new members received most of the terms of the negotiated Salmon contrac...
April 9, 2019
APWU Enters Mediation
In our continuing efforts to get the contract the members deserve, the APWU invoked mediation on April 3, 2019 – sending a letter to the Acting Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and to the Postal...
April 2, 2019
What’s to Come in Interest Arbitration
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman Our efforts to reach a new contract are now entering the next phases o...
April 1, 2019
Solidarity Works! United Worker Actions Mean We Prevail
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Working people across the country continue to build on past organizing successes to beat back government actions that th...
March 13, 2019
Management and Union Exchange Final Economic Proposals
March 8, 2019
Management and Union Exchange Final Economic Proposals
On March 7, 2019, the APWU and United States Postal Service negotiators exchanged their final economic proposals as both sides continue their preparation for interest arbitration... President Mark Dimondstein said, “Ther...
January 24, 2019
APWU’s Greater Los Angeles Area Local Joins UTLA Strike
APWU’s Greater Los Angeles Area Local joined United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) on the picket line last week, offering support to fellow public-sector workers during the week-long strike that ended Tuesday morning. “It’s...
January 16, 2019
Auto Workers Laid Off
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman Recently, General Motors (GM) and Ford announced massive layoffs...
January 16, 2019
Fighting Back On-the-Clock
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson Are you tired of management knowingly and willfully violating the contra...
January 16, 2019
Frequently Asked Questions
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) With negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement between the USPS and the APWU now at an impasse, we are...
January 15, 2019
APWU and Union Allies March in Solidarity with CUPW
On Jan. 15, APWU officers and members protested with union sisters and brothers from the NALC, National Nurses United, Teamsters, the BCTGM (Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers) International Union,...
December 21, 2018
Statement from President Mark Dimondstein to APWU on Status of Collective Bargaining
The Collective Bargaining Agreement (Union Contract) between the American Postal Workers Union and the United States Postal Service initially expired on September 20, 2018. Negotiations began in July with a big kick off...
December 7, 2018
Update on Negotiations
APWU President Mark Dimondstein reports that the national union leadership will make an announcement on Friday December 21, 2018 regarding the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the APWU and the USPS.
November 28, 2018
APWU Statement in Support of Canadian Postal Workers
For 37 days, members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) engaged in militant rotating strikes in the struggle for a new union contract. Canadian postal workers were forced into strike action by the refusal of...
November 20, 2018
APWU and USPS Agree to an Extension
Our current Collective Bargaining Agreement (union contract) initially expired on September 20, 2018. The APWU and the U.S. Postal Service agreed to extend negotiations until October 20th after which the parties again ex...
November 5, 2018
Attacks on Federal Workers
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman Recently our sisters and brothers who work for other federal agen...
November 2, 2018
Call to Serve
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Maintenance Division Director Idowu Balogun Dear Brothers and Sisters, My name is Idowu Balogun, your New Natio...
November 2, 2018
Most Regressive Demands Ever
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By MVS Division Director Michael O. Foster As the parties reached the Sept. 20th contract deadline, the USPS prop...
November 2, 2018
Numerous Negotiations Continue
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Support Services Division Director Steve Brooks I hope everyone had a good time at the 24th Annual National Co...
October 20, 2018
APWU and USPS Agree to an Additional 30 Days of Negotiations
APWU President Mark Dimondstein has announced that the union and the Postal Service again agreed to extend negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement for an additional 30 days until November 20, 2018.
October 3, 2018
“The Struggle Continues” – Moe Biller
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By MVS Division Director Michael O. Foster The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and the United States Postal...
October 3, 2018
Time’s Up
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Central Region Coordinator Sharyn M. Stone This is a tough article to write because by the time you read it, w...
October 3, 2018
USPS Utilizing Disgraced Former NLRB Commissioner
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson The United States Postal Service is utilizing Terence F. Flynn, the dis...
October 2, 2018
The National Convention Sets the Path for Current and Future APWU Struggles
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Twenty-one hundred APWU members departed from the union’s 24th Biennial National Convention in August uplifted, un...