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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...
May 19, 2017
APWU Stands with BCTGM as Workers rally at Nabisco/ Mondelēz Shareholder Meeting
Wednesday morning Nabisco workers from across the country joined together to rally at the site of the annual Mondelēz International shareholders meeting in Lincolnshire, IL. Workers were protesting the company’s continue...
May 5, 2017
APWU Members March on May Day
APWU members were part of the thousands marching and rallying on May Day, the International Day of Workers’ Solidarity. Workers and allies united to fight back against increasing anti-immigration sentiment and policies t...
May 5, 2017
Miners Win Permanent Funding for Retirement Health Care
On May 4, Congress passed legislation providing for 22,600 retired coal miners, widows and dependents to have the health care they were promised by the federal government and earned through going into the mines for decad...
May 2, 2017
Support NALC’s Annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on May 13
May 1, 2017
Higher Union Membership Boosts Wages for All
APWU Grassroots Political & Legislative Coordinator Janice Kelble (second from right) with community activists (L-R) Jeff Kramer, Kathy Staub, Keith Yergeau, Elizabeth Ropp, Emily Eastman and Eric Zulaski after “right...
April 28, 2017
Fighting for Workplace Safety
Read more about the history of workplace safety. Reprint from May-June 2017 issue of the American Postal Worker Before passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in December 1970, millions of Americans risked the...
April 28, 2017
Join a May Day Event!
May Day, the annual holiday recognizing the international working class, will be celebrated around the world on May 1. This year hundreds of thousands are expected to participate in demonstrations, strikes, and shows of...
April 24, 2017
Workers Memorial Day is April 28
The labor movement will observe Workers Memorial Day on April 28, to commemorate those who have been killed or injured on the job and to revitalize the fight for workplace safety. Each year, thousands of workers die and...
April 21, 2017
Postal Reform Questions & Answers Released
March 9, 2017
APWU Members Join UAW’s ‘March on Mississippi’
Over two dozen APWU members came from multiple states to support the Nissan workers efforts to organize. APWU members stood in solidarity at the “March on Mississippi” with Nissan workers attempting to organize a union...
March 1, 2017
Q & A with Mark Dudzic
(This article first appeared in the March-April 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The U.S. health care system is broken. The Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare (LCSP) calls for a total revamp. T...
February 1, 2017
APWU Celebrates Black History Month
January 23, 2017
Labor Participates in Women’s Rights March
Post Office Women for Equal Rights (POWER) members and their families protested in the streets of Washington, D.C. On January 21, APWU members were among the millions across the country who participated in the Women’...
January 9, 2017
APWU Goals for the Upcoming Year
President Dimondstein spoke about the recent victories and future challenges for the American Postal Workers Union during his address at the installation of officers on Nov. 5, 2016. Click here to watch his full speech...
January 1, 2017
Labor Unites at Rally for Social & Economic Justice and Equality
Hundreds of union members and allies rallied outside of the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 17. (This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Hundreds of labor union memb...
January 1, 2017
UNI Post and Logistics World Conference Endorses Staples Boycott
(This article first appeared in the January-February 2017 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The Stop Staples campaign has gone global. In October 2016, the UNI Post and Logistics World Conference passed a re...
December 19, 2016
Together We Stopped the TPP!!
APWU members rallied against the TPP at the 2016 National Convention. The 114th U.S. Congressional session is over and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is officially dead. This victory comes despite it being a signatu...
December 16, 2016
Landmark Arbitration Decision Upholds Craft Assignments, Job Posting Rights
Arbitrator Stephen Goldberg issued a decision on Dec. 8, 2016, holding that the Postal Service violated the Collective Bargaining Agreement when it failed to assign Sales Retention Team (SRT) center work to the Clerk Cra...
November 1, 2016
‘Keep the Promise, Pass the Bill’
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Thousands of miners and their allies rallied outside the Capitol on Sept. 8. Thousands of miners and their allies...
November 1, 2016
‘Keep the Promise, Pass the Bill’
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Thousands of miners and their allies rallied outside the Capitol on Sept. 8. Thousands of miners and their allies...
November 1, 2016
Reject the Secret Trade Deal!
Delegates rally against the TPP at the APWU’s 2016 National Convention. (This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Congress is poised to pass a disastrous tr...
November 1, 2016
Reject the Secret Trade Deal!
Delegates rally against the TPP at the APWU’s 2016 National Convention. (This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Congress is poised to pass a disastrous tr...
November 1, 2016
Standing Rock Sioux Stands Up to Big Oil
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The Standing Rock Sioux, a federally recognized Native American tribe, has taken a stand against the construction...
November 1, 2016
Standing Rock Sioux Stands Up to Big Oil
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) The Standing Rock Sioux, a federally recognized Native American tribe, has taken a stand against the construction...
October 13, 2016
APWU Joins Picket Line Supporting Las Vegas Hotel Workers
On Oct. 13, hundreds of union members and allies – including the APWU – walked a picket line in front of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, (at the former Old Post Office Building) in support of workers a...
October 13, 2016
APWU Joins Picket Line Supporting Las Vegas Hotel Workers
On Oct. 13, hundreds of union members and allies – including the APWU – walked a picket line in front of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, (at the former Old Post Office Building) in support of workers a...
October 3, 2016
Portland OR Defends Door-to-Door Delivery
Members of the Portland [OR] Area Local attended a rally defending door-to-door delivery organized by the local branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), on Sept. 29.
October 3, 2016
Portland OR Defends Door-to-Door Delivery
Members of the Portland [OR] Area Local attended a rally defending door-to-door delivery organized by the local branch of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), on Sept. 29.
September 15, 2016
APWU Joins Boycott of Nabisco Products
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine) The APWU is urging union members to join a boycott of Mexican-made Nabisco products launched by the Bakery, Confe...