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May 10, 2022
Support the 30th Annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on May 14
The 30th annual National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is taking place on Saturday, May 14. Since its inception, the NALC food drive has donated over 1.8 billion pounds of food to fami...
November 23, 2021
Workers Are Standing Up
(This article first appeared in the November/December issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Greetings postal heroes! Postal workers, nurses and medical personnel, meatpackers, farmworkers, transit workers, truck...
November 19, 2021
John Deere Workers Win Strong New Contract Following Militant Strike Action
On November 17, over 10,000 John Deere workers, unionized with the United Auto Workers (UAW), brought their month-long strike to an end, voting to ratify a strong new contract that preserves benefits, includes large pay...
November 12, 2021
APWU Honored During 2021 Community Change Champions Awards
(This article first appeared in the November/December issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On September 30, APWU ally organization Community Change held its annual Community Change Champions Awards, with the the...
November 12, 2021
Support Postal Employees Impacted by Hurricane Ida and Other Natural Disasters
(This article first appeared in the November/December issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On August 26, the 16-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 sto...
November 12, 2021
Puerto Rico Area Local Members Rally to Demand Safe Workplace
(This article first appeared in the November/December issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On August 27, Puerto Rico Area Local members staged a rally at the General Post Office in San Juan, Puerto Rico, demandi...
August 27, 2021
Labor News
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Nabisco Workers on Strike Across the Country On August 10, 200 workers at a Nabisco bakery in Portland, OR, represented...
August 27, 2021
Q&A with Bessemer, AL Amazon Union Organizer Jennifer Bates
(This article first appeared in the September-October issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Earlier this year, workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, AL fulfillment center worked to unionize their workplace with the Retai...
July 9, 2021
Labor News
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Workers Defeat New Hampshire Attempt to Pass Anti-Union “Right-to-Work” Law On June 3, workers defeated an attempt in the...
September 16, 2020
The People are Proving We’re no “Joke”
(This article first appeared in the September/October 2020 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) It is no joke when the U.S. President calls us “a joke.” It is most concerning for our jobs and future. We are outr...
November 19, 2019
APWU Supports UAW Strike for a Fair Contract
(This article first appeared in the November/December 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)
August 30, 2019
Participate in a Labor Day Event Near You
Labor Day is the day where workers come together to honor and recognize the achievements won by generations before us! Don’t forget to wear your labor gear proudly! This Labor Day, we’re fighting for our livelihood in th...
August 1, 2019
Puerto Rico Governor Resigns Following Massive Protests
On Tuesday, July 23 an estimated 500,000 people filled the streets of Puerto Rico’s capital San Juan, demanding the immediate resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló. The protest was one of, if not the, largest demonstr...
July 25, 2019
Update: Hatch Act Dispute
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In Nov. 2017, the APWU filed a dispute over the Postal Service’s unilateral implementation of changes to Leave Without P...
July 25, 2019
Activists Push for Cleveland Pilot Program
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) On May 30, postal workers in Cleveland, OH had a special delivery for Postmaster General (PMG) Megan Brennan. Joined b...
June 3, 2019
249 Post Offices, Stations, Branches on a Suspension / Discontinuance List for 2019
(This article first appeared in the May/June 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) State and local presidents have been sent the latest Suspension List for 2019 that was released after Quarter 4 FY 2018. A...
April 26, 2019
How to Participate in Workers Memorial Day
Each year on Workers Memorial Day (April 28), working people throughout the world remember those who were hurt or killed on the job, and recommit to the struggle for a safe workplace. Virtually every safety and health pr...
April 18, 2019
APWU Members Take a Tax Day Stand against Privatization
On April 15, Tax Day, thousands of APWU members and allies took to the street to spread the news that the US Mail Runs on Zero Tax Dollars! At more than 100 locations from Hawaii to New England, activists fighting for th...
April 17, 2019
31,000 Stop & Shop Workers on Strike in New England
On Thursday, Apr. 11, nearly 31,000 workers at over 240 Stop & Shop grocery stores in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut walked out, beginning a strike that stretched into a seventh day on Wednesday. The worker...
April 2, 2019
A Woman For All Seasons
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By Retirees Department Director Nancy Olumekor Dedicated APWU unionist Eleanor G. Bailey passed away on December 12, 201...
April 2, 2019
April 2, 2019
Kathy Danek Retires as APWU Auxiliary President
This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) At the beginning of the year, Kathy Danek retired as APWU Auxilary President, a position she has served in since 2012. Wh...
April 2, 2019
Strikes, Shutdown and Service — Public Servants Rise in Defense of the Public Good
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Conventional wisdom suggested that the anti-union Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME last summer spelled the inevita...
April 1, 2019
Solidarity Works! United Worker Actions Mean We Prevail
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Working people across the country continue to build on past organizing successes to beat back government actions that th...
April 1, 2019
Solidarity
(This article first appeared in the March/April 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) By President Mark Dimondstein Our labor anthem is “Solidarity Forever.” I sign letters “in union solidarity.” But what...
February 8, 2019
Secretary-Treasurer Powell Honored with World Peace Prize for Labor Leadership
On Feb. 5, Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth “Liz” Powell was honored by the World Peace Prize Awarding Council (WPPAC) as a “Roving Ambassador for Peace,” and awarded the World Peace Prize for Labor Leadership, alongside Es...
January 30, 2019
January 25, 2019
APWU Officers and Members Join ‘Occupy Hart’ Sit-In to Stop the Shutdown
On Jan. 23, APWU officers joined together with protestors from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), SEIU, and other unions in a sit-in at the Hart Senat...
January 24, 2019
APWU’s Greater Los Angeles Area Local Joins UTLA Strike
APWU’s Greater Los Angeles Area Local joined United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) on the picket line last week, offering support to fellow public-sector workers during the week-long strike that ended Tuesday morning. “It’s...
January 22, 2019
Stop the Shutdown!
The United States is in the midst of the longest government shutdown – with 800,000 government employees locked out of their jobs. Thousands are currently forced to work without pay. Make no mistake: federal employees’ p...