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WATCH: APWU Members Ratify 2024-2027 National Agreement!

July 12, 2025
APWU Members Ratify 2024-2027 National Agreement!    

APWU Members Ratify 2024-2027 National Agreement!

July 10, 2025
“Today, APWU members overwhelmingly voted in favor of ratifying the 2024-2027 National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the APWU and the USPS,” announced APWU President Mark Dimondstein.

The End of the Fiscal Year and Custodial Hours

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) We are quite likely still heading for Interest Arbitration for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. And while that is the top priority for...

Negotiations and the Power in a Union

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without...

HCR Disputes, Renewals and Subcontracting

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) On June 25, 2015, the APWU won another round in our fight against subcontracting when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) denied a motion...

'Big Bill' Haywood: The 'Wobbly' Giant

August 31, 2015
“Big Bill” Haywood was a big man with a big heart and a big dream – to build one big union for workers from every industry. He could break a man’s jaw with a single blow, but he wept openly when a poem moved him. “Big Bill” was born William Dudley...

Clerk Officers Outline Criteria for Disbursement of $56 Million Payout for ‘Global Settlement’ of Violations of Article 1.6.B

August 31, 2015
In a conference call with local and state presidents, the APWU’s Clerk Division officers outlined the criteria for distributing the $56 million lump-sum penalty portion of the settlement that resolves a decades-long dispute over postmasters and...

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