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2025 APWU Scholarship Winners Announced!

July 9, 2025
The APWU proudly presents the winners of three scholarship programs: The E.C. Hallbeck Memorial Scholarship, Vocational Scholarship, and Best Essay Award for 2025! 

Reconciliation Legislation Passes

July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...

What to Do When Disaster Strikes

As I write this, we are still “recovering” from this year’s devastating hurricane season. My prayers continue to go out to my APWU sisters and brothers and their families who were adversely affected. Disasters can strike quickly and without warning...

Protecting Our Social Security Benefits

Many postal employees and retirees who depend on Social Security benefits to supplement their postal annuities are wondering: How much income can I count on in years to come?  

e-Team Report, Nov. 13, 2012

Lame Duck Congress and the Fiscal Cliff Send Congress a Message Meet the 113th Congress  Growing Vacancies on Board of Governors Hurricane Sandy

Disputes Over Contract Postal Units Filed, Appealed to Arbitration

The APWU has initiated one dispute, and appealed another to national arbitration, over whether a contract postal unit (CPU) may exist in a facility when the Postal Service has use of the property by consignment or other special agreement, for...

Drug and Alcohol Testing - USPS

In a Step 4 settlement dated July 19, 2006, the APWU and USPS agreed that the Postal Service will not require employees to participate in DOT drug-and-alcohol-testing pools when the employees are unable to perform safety-sensitive functions. To be...

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