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May 7, 2021
APWU Retirees Still Fighting for Justice
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Every May, our nation observes Older Americans Month....
May 7, 2021
Screening Options for Colorectal Cancer
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cance...
May 7, 2021
Join the APWU’s Women’s Committee
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) APWU POWER (Post Office Women for Equal Rights), the w...
May 7, 2021
Be the Change
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Routinely the Organizing Department receives emails, l...
May 7, 2021
Infrastructure, Voting Rights, Retirement Security: Our Fight Continues
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) After the American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law...
May 7, 2021
Postal Banking Gaining Steam in Congress
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Members of Congress are making waves in the fight to w...
May 7, 2021
Labor News
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) 1,300 Steelworkers on Strike Across Five States On Mar...
May 3, 2021
APWU/USPS concluded ET- 11 Virtual LMOU Negotiations
The Maintenance Division recently concluded the negotiation for National Support Technicians Local Memorandum of Understanding on April 19, 2021, afte...
April 30, 2021
Second Round of Payments for POStPlan Staffing
On April 26, 2021, the Postal Service informed the Clerk Craft that it had partially input the second round of payments required by the national-level...
April 30, 2021
Industrial Relations ZOOM Seminar: Emergency Federal Employee Leave (EFEL)
On April 29, 2021, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released their long-awaited guidance on EFEL. The Industrial Relations Department will be...
April 27, 2021
APWU Opposes Management Plans to Reinstitute Plant Consolidations and Closures.
On Tuesday April 27, 2021 postal management informed the APWU of management’s intent to pursue consolidations and operational mail moves in 18 facilit...
April 24, 2021
APWU Prevails on Management Court Challenge to Victorious Arbitration Award on Union Leave for Political Activity.
In August of 2018, Arbitrator Stephen Goldberg struck down the Postal Service’s unilateral implementation of changes to ELM Section 510 and to PS-Form...
April 23, 2021
At Senate hearing, USPS Board nominees express commitment to improving quality and reliability, upholding universal service obligation
UPDATE: Today, April 28th, 2021, the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) held a business meeting to consider pending nom...
April 23, 2021
Remaining Level 6 Mailing Requirements Clerks Upgraded to Level 7
APWU Clerk Craft Director Lamont Brooks signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Postal Service that upgraded the known remaining Level 6 M...
April 21, 2021
APWU Statement on Derek Chauvin’s Conviction
Yesterday, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted in the May 2020 murder of George Floyd. Last year, APWU President Mark Dimond...
April 19, 2021
Do Not let the Postal Service take your “Pulse!”
The APWU was notified by the USPS that they will be attempting, again, to take your “Postal Pulse” The survey period is schedule from May 11, 2021 to...
April 13, 2021
USPS Receives COVID-19 Financial Relief Following Success of #SaveThePostOffice Campaign
APWU members and our allies won an important victory in our fight to save the Post Office as the US Treasury Department last week released $8.648 bill...
March 31, 2021
Clerk Craft Prepares for National Negotiations
The APWU will begin negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in June. The current CBA is set to expire on September 20, 2021. As s...
March 26, 2021
Extension with the Postal Service of the April 3, 2020 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Re: Bulk Mail Tech and Mailing Requirements Clerk (MRC) Position Qualification
On March 23, 2021, Clerk Craft Director Lamont Brooks signed an extension with the Postal Service of the April 3, 2020 Memorandum of Understanding (MO...
March 26, 2021
National Executive Board votes unanimously to cancel the 2020 National Convention
While we all cannot wait to gather together again, the leadership of APWU takes the health and safety of our members seriously. As a result, in an e...
March 23, 2021
APWU Statement on the Release of the Postal Service’s 10-Year Plan
Today, Postal Service management issued a 10-year plan they are calling Delivering for America. The plan lays out a number of steps management hopes t...
March 23, 2021
USPS and APWU Reach Function 1 and 4 Staffing Increase Agreement
Postal Management and the American Postal Workers Union signed another Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to continue to address the significant unders...
March 19, 2021
Latest COVID MOUs and Liberal Leave Policy Extensions
President Dimondstein signed extensions on the COVID MOUs today through June 4, 2021
March 18, 2021
American Rescue Plan Act: Update on Emergency Federal Employee Leave (EFEL)
Multiple questions have been submitted regarding the recently passed stimulus bill known as the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). Under section...
March 13, 2021
Biden signs $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill Into Law
On Thursday March 11, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 into law, providing desperately needed relief to America’s worki...
March 9, 2021
Imperfect Storm
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The mail system is in chaos. Postal workers are tir...
March 2, 2021
Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee Appointed
With national contract negotiations set to begin in June, President Mark Dimondstein has announced the names of union members who will serve on the Ra...
March 1, 2021
APWU Pres. Dimondstein Testifies to Congress
On February 24, APWU President Mark Dimondstein appeared at a hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform to discuss the...
March 1, 2021
Vaccination Health
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Vaccines are part of a plan for overall optimum hea...
March 1, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccination and You
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) People have questions and concerns about the COVID-...