Mobilizing a Progressive Labor Movement
Postal workers are experts in workroom floor solidarity. But in order to build a true, progressive labor movement, that sense of mobilization must be spread into the community – and beyond.
“None of us can do anything to move the progressive...
Rewriting the Rules of the Rigged Economy
(This article first appeared in the July-August issue of The American Postal Worker Magazine)
The average U.S. family paid $2,050 to bail out Wall Street after the economy crashed in 2008 and lost nearly $5,800 in income due to reduced economic...
APWU Joins Allies to ‘Take On Wall Street’
Sen. Warren at the Take On Wall Street launch
The nation’s 25 highest-earning hedge-fund managers earned $12.94 billion in 2015 – more than all the kindergarten teachers in the country combined.
And eight years after our economy crashed and...
Postal Banking: The Antidote to Abusive Lending
(This article first appeared in the May-June 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
One of the big topics in this year’s presidential election is the influence of Wall Street on our economy – from too much power in the hands of the big...
‘Grand Alliance’ Holds Field Hearing in Baltimore
The Postal Service is indeed worth saving. That was the consensus of participants in the first field hearing sponsored by A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service (AGA), held at Coppin State University in Baltimore on March 23.