Building Union Power

Building a stronger and more active membership makes us powerful. Whether we are fighting for a good, fair new union contract in June, protecting our jobs during proposed consolidations as a result of the Postal Service’s network modernization, or defending our safety on the workroom oor, working together in a union is what wins the day!

Every year, as postal workers retire and new hires join our ranks, the privatizers and corporate giants hope our union will get weaker – that new hires will fail to join the union and pay their dues, until one-by-one, our union shrinks, and we are too weak to fight off their attacks. 

The outcome of this contract depends on our union’s power and leverage. We are the American Postal Workers Union! Since our first collective bargaining agreement in 1971, we have stood together time and time again to improve our wages, our benefits, and our rights in the workplace. With the opening of contract negotiations just months away this is an important time to build our strength.

Between April 1 and June 25, we called on all active members to have conversations with every single coworker to make sure they’re signed up as a member. It was an outstanding success! We succeeded our goal of 5,000, and surpassed 8,000, for a total of 8,707 new members during the length of our campaign. That will put us in the best possible position to enter into negotiations for a new contract with the full force of our worker power behind us.

Union Power = Worker Power

If we work together, we can keep our union strong, and protect our families and our livelihoods for years to come.