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October 30, 2025
Post Offices on the Auction Block
The APWU has long warned that the pro-privatization agenda being advanced by USPS executives and right-wing legislators is a big-time rip off for citizens and businesses that rely on the mail.
October 30, 2025
Postal Workers: Now is the Time to Get Involved!
For many years most of our membership has left too much of the fighting for jobs, better wages and our rights and benefits to stewards and officers. It’s not enough. We all have to do more. Times have changed. We have fo...
October 30, 2025
Arm Yourself With Knowledge
An important part of building our power is arming ourselves with knowledge. But if we rely only on the corporate-owned media, we are likely to receive a heavy dose of misinformation along with analysis that is biased in...
October 30, 2025
Post Offices on the Auction Block
The APWU has long warned that the pro-privatization agenda being advanced by USPS executives and right-wing legislators is a big-time rip off for citizens and businesses that rely on the mail.
October 30, 2025
The Postal Service’s Credibility Deficit
The decision by Postmaster General Patrick Donohoe to accelerate the consolidation of more than 70 mail processing plants that were originally scheduled for 2014 underscores the urgency of our struggle to get Congress to...
October 30, 2025
Stand Up for Your Rights
The lyrics from the famous tune by Bob Marley sum it all up: Get up, Stand up, Stand up for your rights! We must adopt these words as our marching orders if we are going to save the USPS from postal managers, members of...
October 30, 2025
Consolidation: Fighting Back
Following the consolidation of the Middlesex-Essex (MA) Processing & Distribution Center with the Boston plant in 2013, the national APWU and the Boston Area Local met with the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to f...
October 30, 2025
Local Efforts Amplify the Fight
October 30, 2025
Protestors Rally to Save Distribution Centers
Protesters lined the sidewalk in front of the post office at Bay and Fahm streets in Savannah, GA, Oct. 15 to express their disapproval of the planned closure of the area’s mail processing and distribution center. Earlie...
October 30, 2025
Survey Says: Most Americans Oppose Plant Closures
I have always been skeptical of surveys conducted by the Postal Service, because they seem to be designed to generate responses that would justify cutting service, closing postal facilities, or reducing employees’ pay. B...
October 30, 2025
e-Team Report, Jan. 29, 2014
Emergency Alert: Call Your Senator No Later Than Tuesday, Feb. 4th, 2014!
October 30, 2025
Another Biased Report Calls for Privatizing Mail Processing
Another conservative think tank has jumped on the “privatize everything but the last mile” bandwagon, reports APWU Executive Vice President Greg Bell. A June 2013 report by the Information Technology and Innovation Found...
October 30, 2025
e-Team Report, Feb. 24, 2012
Service Standards Crucial to Saving USPS Jobs H.R. 3813 Update Romney Blasts “Labor Stooges”