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Don't Let Management Take Your Pulse!

July 8, 2024
The APWU is urging union members to refrain from participating in the USPS management’s Postal Pulse survey. Negotiations for a new union contract began June 25, and any information you give them can be used in retaliation to hurt us during...

Contract Negotiations Begin – APWU Negotiating Team Delivers Opening Day Remarks

June 27, 2024
On June 25, contract negotiations began for our next main collective bargaining agreement with the Postal Service. The current contract expires on Sept. 20. Both the union and postal management exchanged opening statements, outlining their...

Contractual Retroactive Payment in November 18th Paychecks

November 2, 2016
Retroactive Pay  The July 8, 2016 interest arbitration award established the terms for the 2015-2018 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), ordering a retroactive pay increase effective Nov. 14, 2015. USPS started paying the new rates ordered by the...

‘Keep the Promise, Pass the Bill’

November 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Thousands of miners and their allies rallied outside the Capitol on Sept. 8. Thousands of miners and their allies – including the APWU –...

Postal Banking Hits Responsive Chord

November 1, 2016
Mehrsa Baradaran (This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)   Delegates to the APWU convention in August responded enthusiastically to the possibilities that postal banking holds, both...

Ask Me About A Grand Alliance!

November 1, 2016
Courtney Jenkins and Sherry McKnight (Baltimore Local), Nora Taggart and Kevin Walsh (New York Local). (This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) President Mark Dimondstein reported to...

The Young Worker Activist

November 1, 2016
(This article first appeared in the November-December 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Initially, i would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the local, state and national officers, stewards and members who voted for me...

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