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July 1, 2017
MVO/TTO Qualification Standards Settlement
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Motor Vehicle Service Craft Directors The APWU and the Postal Service finalized a settlement on May 9, 2017 resolving...
July 1, 2017
Building Our Future – A Challenge, A Priority
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Northeast Regional Coordinator John Dirzius As a proud member of the American Postal Workers Union since its birth in ...
July 1, 2017
AFL-CIO Young Workers Meet with Brazilian Union Leaders
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) A delegation of young workers from the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) travel...
July 1, 2017
POWER: The APWU Women’s Committee
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Research & Education Director Joyce Robinson APWU POWER (Post Office Women for Equal Rights), the women’s committee wi...
July 1, 2017
Tell the Postmaster General
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) Every day, people receiving public assistance pay a portion of their benefits in fees to access their own money. It could...
July 1, 2017
Attend the Legislative Conference Oct. 1
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Legislative Director Judy Beard On Oct. 1, the APWU Legislative and Political Department will be hosting the first Leg...
July 1, 2017
Get to Know the Non-Member
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Organization Director Anna Smith As I travel across the country to state conferences and to conduct trainings, too oft...
July 1, 2017
Attacks on Veterans
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget plan levies an attack against our veterans who are elderly and disabled. His cu...
July 1, 2017
Early Signs of Alzheimer’s
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Retirees Director Nancy Olumekor The following is a partial reprint of 10 Early Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer’s pub...
July 1, 2017
The Combined Federal Campaign
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Human Relations Director Sue Carney Your Participation Matters. The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is the largest and...
July 1, 2017
A Summer ‘To Do’
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) By Health Plan Director John Marcotte Summer is upon us. With it comes vacations, picnics and long days filled with warm...
June 29, 2017
St. Louis Members Rock #UnionGearThursday
June 29, 2017
Leave and Overtime Benefits Secured for ET-11s
APWU Maintenance Division and USPS resolved two national disputes, Q15T-4Q-C 17340522 and Q15T -4Q-C 17340479, and National Labor Relations Board charge concerning the wages, hours and working conditions of a small but u...
June 29, 2017
JCIM is Available
The 2017 Joint Contract Interpretation Manual (JCIM), a resource for the administration of the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement, is published! Members can order their bound JCIM for $6 from the APWU Store. Click...
June 22, 2017
Arbitrator Das Solidifies Administrative Leave for Caucus Voting
On June 21, Arbitrator Shyam Das issued a national award in the arbitration between the United States Postal Service (USPS) and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), with APWU and the National Postal Mail H...
June 22, 2017
APWU and Mail Handlers Union Send a United Message to PMG Brennan Denouncing “Wholesale and Massive Job Cuts”
On June 21, the APWU and National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) sent a joint letter to Postmaster General Megan Brennan chastising her administration’s “wholesale and massive job cuts.” APWU President Mark Dimondste...
June 16, 2017
APWU Members Receive Jobs With Justice Award for Stop Staples Victory!
On June 13, APWU members received the 2017 Jobs With Justice Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award for the victorious Stop Staples campaign. The award honored the memberships’ successful efforts to save good union jobs an...
June 16, 2017
National Agreement Provides Uniform Allowance for Clerks in POStPlan Offices
On June 14, the APWU and the Postal Service reached an agreement resolving a Step 4 National Dispute that career Clerk Craft employees assigned to a POStPlan office are entitled to a uniform allowance. The parties agree...
June 16, 2017
APWU Geared Up to Fight Back Against USPS Reductions in Service and Jobs
Throughout the country, the Postal Service has launched an all-out assault on our jobs and is blatantly violating the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) in their staffing of post offices. The USPS is reducing service...
June 15, 2017
APWU Receives Recognition from Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Judy Chu
On June 11, California Postal Workers Union President Mike Evans attended a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) event with Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA) and special guest Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA),...
June 15, 2017
2017 Maintenance Craft National Staffing Advocates
2017 Maintenance Craft National Staffing Advocates concluding an extensive training in Gaithersburg, MD.
June 7, 2017
APWU Wins Another National Level Arbitration Award
The APWU scores another victory today, defending postal employees in the union’s bargaining unit. Arbitrator Goldberg issued an award in a national-level case over what remedy was due for the Postal Service’s failure to...
June 2, 2017
USPS Private Contractor Pleads Guilty to Fraud
On March 16, 2017, Beam Bros. Trucking, Inc., a private trucking company, was indicted on multiple counts of fraud and abuse in their capacity as a Highway Contract Route (HCR) operator for the USPS.
June 2, 2017
Postal Reform Scored by Congressional Budget Office
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published its report on Postal Service Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 756). It is standard practice for the CBO to “score” pending legislation introduced into Congress in order...
May 31, 2017
Union Administration Training Graduates
Featured is the graduating class of the Union Administration Training recently held at the Maritime Institute. The training was designed to give local and state presidents, executive vice presidents, and secretary-trea...
May 26, 2017
White House 2018 Budget Proposal Targets Postal Workers and Postal Services
This week the White House released their budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, as they do every fiscal year. There are a number of disturbing provisions which will directly affect postal workers and postal services...
May 24, 2017
NLRB Ruling Strikes Down Unfair USPS Policies
In a united fight for the protection of all Postal employees, the APWU, National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) were victorious over USPS policies in six consolidate...
May 22, 2017
Support Services Rock Union Gear Thursdays
IT/AS Support Services members are wearing union gear on Thursdays to show solidarity during their current contract negotiations. Pictured are members of the Wilkes-Barre Solution Center.
May 22, 2017
APWU Members Stand with CWA Strikers
APWU members from the Portland (Maine) Area Local stood in solidarity with striking CWA sisters and brothers at multiple AT&T picket lines throughout southern Maine.
May 20, 2017
APWU Stands in Solidarity with Striking AT&T Retail Workers
Across 36 states and the District of Columbia, 40,000 AT&T retail workers walked off the job on Friday, May 19, because a tentative agreement could not be reached between AT&T Mobility and the Communication Workers of Am...