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June 27, 2014
House Committee Votes to Keep Saturday Mail Delivery
The House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to a funding bill on June 25 that would prevent the Postal Service from eliminating Saturday ma...
June 16, 2014
PMG Endorses Highway Budget Scam
The Postmaster General’s latest act of treachery is so outrageous it’s hard to believe. Last week, he endorsed a budget scam that would eliminate Satu...
June 6, 2014
GOP Calls for Repeal of Affordable Care Act Are Fading Fast
In a sign that the harshest opposition to the Affordable Care Act may be softening, GOP candidates across the country are dropping calls to repeal the...
June 6, 2014
e-Team Report, June 6, 2014
The Federal Highway Trust Fund, which provides for construction and maintenance of the nation’s roads, rail lines, and bridges, is expected to run out...
June 5, 2014
The USPS is Not a Piggy Bank!
In a “Dear Colleagues” letter dated June 3, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) urged his fellow members of the House of Representatives to oppose a proposal t...
June 2, 2014
APWU Condemns GOP Plan to Loot USPS to Save Highway Fund
APWU President Mark Dimondstein issued a statement June 2 condemning a proposal by House Republican leaders to raid the Postal Service treasury to sho...
May 21, 2014
Committee Passes Controversial Issa Bill
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members passed the latest postal bill offered by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), which would end “do...
May 21, 2014
APWU Urges ‘No’ Vote on Issa’s Latest Postal Bill
The APWU is urging House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members to vote ‘no’ on the latest postal bill offered by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-...
May 20, 2014
Dimondstein Discusses Postal Finances on Radio, TV with Ed Schultz
APWU President Mark Dimondstein appeared on The Ed Schultz Radio Show and The Ed Show on MSNBC to will discuss postal finances – and how Postmaster Ge...
May 7, 2014
Consideration of Postal Bill Postponed
Consideration by a House Committee of a new postal bill sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) , which was scheduled for May 7, has been postponed inde...
May 6, 2014
Vote NO on Issa Bill
The presidents of the four postal employee unions – the APWU, the National Association of Letter Carriers, the National Rural Letter Carriers Associat...
April 16, 2014
Postal Unions Write to House Committee Leaders
The presidents of the four postal unions have written to leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee expressing opposition to White...
April 9, 2014
USPS Needs Real Reform – Not More Austerity
The Postal Service needs real reform — not the austerity proposed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and the White House, APWU President Mark Dimondstein sai...
April 1, 2014
Based on a Falsehood, Ryan Budget Would Plunder Postal Service
The postal provisions in the budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on April 1 are a “thinly-veiled attempt to plunder the Postal Service — to slash...
March 11, 2014
Postal Unions Form Alliance
Declaring that “the U.S. Postal Service is under unprecedented attack,” the presidents of the four postal unions have formed a historic alliance to fi...
March 7, 2014
House Budget Committee Chair Ryan Misrepresents Economists in Poverty Report
The House Budget Committee released a report, The War on Poverty: Fifty Years Later, on Monday, and the findings left several economists and social sc...
March 6, 2014
White House Budget Misses the Mark on Postal Matters
The administration’s budget proposal for 2015 misses the mark on postal issues, APWU President Mark Dimondstein said. “The White House budget echoes...
March 6, 2014
Sen. Sanders Says It All
In a March 5 guest column in the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) makes an eloquent case for postal reform that protects our beloved na...
February 21, 2014
President Obama Takes the Chained CPI out of his Fiscal 2015 Budget
In a great victory for the Alliance, White House staff has announced that President Obama’s Fiscal 2015 budget will not include a switch to the chaine...
February 19, 2014
Postal Workers Protest Rep. Issa at NH GOP Fundraiser
More than 150 union members braved sub-zero degree winds on Feb. 17 to deliver an icy greeting to U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, the author of legislation (H...
February 8, 2014
Now You See It, Now You Don’t
The Postal Service’s financial report for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2014 shows the agency enjoyed an operating surplus of $765 million. But the...
February 6, 2014
Senate Panel Approves ‘Disastrous’ Postal Bill
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved an amended version of a postal bill (S. 1486) that faces vehement oppositi...
January 30, 2014
Senate Committee Begins – But Doesn’t Complete – Debate on Postal Bill
The Senate committee with oversight over the Postal Service spent nearly three hours on Jan. 29 debating amendments to a postal bill that all four pos...
January 27, 2014
Four Postal Unions Express ‘ Strong Opposition’ to Senate Bill
The four postal unions sent a joint letter to members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Jan. 27 expressing “strong opposi...
January 24, 2014
Supreme Court Hears Landmark Union Case Involving Home Health Care Workers
This week, U.S. Supreme Court heard Harris vs. Quinn, a case concerning in-home care providers who work with Medicaid patients, and their right to uni...
January 17, 2014
e-Team Report, Jan. 17, 2014
Congress Approves HR 3547 -- Awaiting Presidential Signature Ranking Member of Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to Retire Mid-Term...
December 17, 2013
Senate Panel Postpones Consideration of Postal Bill
A Senate committee has postponed consideration of a controversial postal bill that was condemned by postal unions and others. Members of the Senate Co...
December 10, 2013
Budget Negotiators Threaten Postal, Federal Pay, Benefits
Congressional budget negotiators are engaged in closed-door deal-making that could reduce the take-home pay of postal workers and federal employees; r...
November 15, 2013
Don’t Believe the Type
“Headlines across the country are shouting that the USPS lost billions of dollars again this year, but that’s a fallacy,” APWU President Mark Dimondst...
September 24, 2013
Reaching Out in St. Louis
Members of the APWU Saint Louis Gateway Area Local visited with staff for U.S. senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) to urge the lawma...