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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...

Fighting Back On-the-Clock

January 16, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Clerk Division Director Clint Burelson  Are you tired of management knowingly and willfully violating the contract, providing poor service to...

Frequently Asked Questions

January 16, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  With negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement between the USPS and the APWU now at an impasse, we are heading into interest...

Auto Workers Laid Off

January 16, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman  Recently, General Motors (GM) and Ford announced massive layoffs and plant closings. GM ...

John Dirzius Retires

January 16, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  John Dirzius Northeast Region Coordinator John H. Dirzius retired on Dec. 31, 2018. During a labor union career spanning more than four decades...

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