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Better Staffing, Better Service

August 2, 2024
A Grassroots Campaign to Improve Our Public Postal Service

An Update on the Social Security Fairness Act

July 31, 2024
The APWU has never stopped fighting to pass the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82, S. 597). 

e-Team Report, Oct. 11, 2013

John Marcotte Elected Legislative & Political Director  Representatives Co-Sponsor Resolution Supporting Federal Workers What do the Government Shutdown and Privatizing the Postal Service Have in Common?  Minnesotans Experience Mail Delays 

USPS Unleashes NRP (Phases 1 & 2)

In mid-December, the APWU was notified that Phase 1 of the National Reassessment Process had been implemented nationwide. The Postal Service estimates that 33,707 limited duty and rehabilitation employees will be reassessed under “NRP,” which was...

Paul Ryan’s April Fools’ Day Budget Would Cut Medicare Dramatically

On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released another Republican budget proposal - this one for the 2015 fiscal year - that would slash programs that benefit seniors in order to cut taxes for corporations and high income...

APWU Vows to Stop the Great Postal Giveaway

(This article appears in the January-February 2014 edition of The American Postal Worker.)  In a deal that has been in the works at least since March 2012, the USPS announced in November that it was launching a pilot program to place postal retail...

Postal Reform – At the 11th Hour

With the expiration of a moratorium on the consolidation and closure of mail processing plants and post offices approaching, there has been a tremendous amount of activity about postal legislation on Capitol Hill — and a tremendous amount of...

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